Publishing activities
Filed accounts
NACE 58210 · financial year 2025 · 65 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 50.5% | 55.6% | 41.6% | 30.9% |
| Median net result | -€657 | €664 | €115 | €2,204 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 30-03-2026 | CLEVER TRICKSTER STUDIO
BE 0798.242.593 |
| 21-05-2025 | STARFURY STUDIOS
BE 1007.230.479 |
| 10-07-2024 | Boulaich, Mokhtar
BE 0821.439.352 · sole trader · Anderlecht |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 100 of 175 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 58210 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 LUGUS STUDIOSHasselt 6.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 HILARIOUSHam-sur-Heure-Nalinnes 5.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 EDU-TECHAarschot 4.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 TACOS PRODUCTIONWatermael-Boitsfort 2.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 11 companies- 227 Audiovisual sector 9
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 2
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 58: Publishing
Related activities
1 other activity| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other software publishing58290 | 1,340 | 269 | 2 | 3,031 |
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 2,236 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. 26.2% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. The median net result of €2,204 is below Belgium's €16,500. Return on equity of 28.1% is above Belgium's 15.9%.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.3% is above Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 26.9 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 99% of the 87 NACE divisions. Wallonia holds 37.4% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 2.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.
Staff and filing. The 4 largest employers hold 19 of the 19 FTE: 100.0%.
Direction. Median solvency fell from 50.5% in financial year 2022 to 30.9% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from -€657 in financial year 2022 to €2,204 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 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 58210 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 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 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.