Book publishing
Filed accounts
NACE 58110 · financial year 2025 · 369 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 35.0% | 34.9% | 37.8% | 39.0% | 38.7% | 42.9% |
| Median net result | €6,973 | €6,816 | €3,482 | €4,299 | €7,013 | €6,040 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 31-12-2025 | Riva Projects
BE 0886.657.204 |
| 10-12-2025 | EXHIBITIONS INTERNATIONAL
BE 0455.300.677 |
| 06-10-2025 | NINETEEN CONSULTING
BE 0761.779.996 |
| 17-09-2025 | PUBLIDEA
BE 0880.168.397 |
| 03-06-2025 | SNOECK UITGEVERIJ
BE 0863.835.280 |
| 16-10-2024 | A3 LIVRES
BE 0887.357.879 |
| 05-02-2024 | BATOK
BE 0888.479.319 |
| 07-08-2023 | Renaissance
BE 0445.898.904 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 639 of 1,109 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 58 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 58110 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Lefebvre BelgiumOttignies-Louvain-la-Neuve 191 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 UITGEVERIJ VAN INWommelgem 167 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 UITGEVERIJ LANNOOTielt 115 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 DILIBELAns 71.2 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 VOKA - Kamer van Koophandel West-VlaanderenKortrijk 53.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 109 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 87
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 30
- 130 Printing, graphic arts and newspapers 7
- 201 Independent retail 7
- 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 3
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 3
- 302 Hotels and catering 2
- 121 Cleaning 1
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- 124 Construction 1
- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 1
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 1
- 329.03 Socio-cultural sector 1
- 330.04 Health institutions and services 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 58: Publishing
Related activities
3 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other publishing activities, excluding software publishing58190 | 706 | 59 | 3 | 617 |
| Publishing activities58130 | 373 | 11 | 5 | 1,686 |
| Publishing activities58120 | 140 | 6 | 0 | 1,954 |
Bankruptcies per year in division 58
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 30 | 25 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 20 | 24 | 13 |
| Jobs lost | 112 | 596 | 94 | 40 | 34 | 14 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 40 | 29 | 28 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 58
268 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €72,600 | €56,800 to €89,600 | 167 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €81,300 | €70,800 to €95,600 | 80 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
21 of the 2,237 companies in NACE division 58 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (7), Netherlands (6) and United States (2). Together they employ 1,009 of the division's 8,698 FTE: 12%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €51.4m awarded
- Federal transfers 368,421 amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €54.1m paid
- EU budget €6.2m attributed share
- EU research €10.7m EU contribution
Insights on Book publishing
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €6,040 is below Belgium's €16,520. 17.9% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Return on equity of 10.1% is below Belgium's 15.9%.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 25.7% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 10.5 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. In 12 months, 10.1 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 77% of the 87 NACE divisions.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 598 of the 1,392 FTE: 43.0%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 35.0% in financial year 2020 to 42.9% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €6,973 in financial year 2020 to €6,040 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 58110 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.