Publishing activities
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Filed accounts
NACE 58120 · financial year 2025 · 69 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 39.8% | 34.1% | 31.3% | 34.8% | 38.3% | 39.8% |
| Median net result | €6,785 | €17,400 | €6,255 | €5,224 | €4,566 | €6,327 |
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Spread across the country
by region and province · 122 of 140 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Brussels
- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 58 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 58120 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 MEDIAHUISAntwerp 777 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 POLITICOBrussels 317 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 MEDIAFINBrussels 300 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 ROSSEL & CieBrussels 216 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 GROUPE SUDMEDIANamur 185 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 26 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 20
- 130 Printing, graphic arts and newspapers 6
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 4
- 227 Audiovisual sector 2
- 119 Food trade 1
- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book publishing58110 | 1,109 | 112 | 2 | 1,392 |
| Other publishing activities, excluding software publishing58190 | 706 | 59 | 3 | 617 |
| Publishing activities58130 | 373 | 11 | 5 | 1,686 |
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 Publishing activities
Balance sheet and result. 21.7% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. The median net result of €6,327 is below Belgium's €16,520. Return on equity of 12.0% is below Belgium's 15.9%.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 24.1 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Brussels holds 36.9% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. 12.9% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 30.0% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 1,794 of the 1,954 FTE: 91.8%.
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 58120 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.