Publishing activities
This view shows Belgium · 58130 · Publishing activities. Sector figures are national, so the place does not apply here.
Filed accounts
NACE 58130 · financial year 2025 · 183 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 39.1% | 39.5% | 40.3% | 39.1% | 43.5% | 39.7% |
| Median net result | €3,757 | €12,289 | €2,736 | €2,533 | €2,634 | €8,415 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 26-10-2026 | EERSTE KANS
BE 0760.385.869 |
| 21-09-2026 | GLEAN ART
BE 0877.757.651 |
| 31-08-2026 | REGIES ET PUBLICATIONS NOUVELLES
BE 0463.218.352 |
| 07-07-2026 | Patientcom
BE 0466.795.474 |
| 07-07-2026 | Health Congress
BE 0889.282.241 |
| 16-04-2025 | Artdependence
BE 0666.567.073 |
| 17-03-2025 | 10X
BE 0756.507.354 |
| 25-07-2024 | Jeanpierre, Isabelle
BE 0780.924.630 · sole trader · Liège |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 326 of 374 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 58 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 58130 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Roularta Media GroupRoeselare 899 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 VERBRUIKERS UNIE TEST AANKOOPSint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) 290 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 IPM GroupEtterbeek 151 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 GROUPE VLANBrussels 33.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 Professional Media EditionsZedelgem 23.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 65 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 51
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 10
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 9
- 130 Printing, graphic arts and newspapers 4
- 302 Hotels and catering 2
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 2
- 216 Notaries' employees 1
- 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 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 | 1,108 | 112 | 2 | 1,392 |
| Other publishing activities, excluding software publishing58190 | 706 | 59 | 3 | 617 |
| 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
267 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €72,300 | €56,800 to €89,700 | 166 |
| 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 2,235 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
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €54.1m paid
- Federal transfers 368,421 amount as published
- EU budget €6.2m attributed share
- EU research €10.7m EU contribution
Insights on Publishing activities
Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 5.9% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 19.9% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. The median net result of €8,415 is below Belgium's €16,492.
Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 13.4 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 93% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 32.6% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 19.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 12.8% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 1,398 of the 1,686 FTE: 82.9%.
Direction. The median net result rose from €3,757 in financial year 2020 to €8,415 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 10-11-2026 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 58130 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 1,276,421 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,557 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.