News agency activities
Filed accounts
NACE 60310 · financial year 2025 · 162 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 52.4% | 46.7% | 53.5% | 57.2% | 54.2% | 64.5% |
| Median net result | €5,118 | €6,929 | €6,271 | €6,325 | €6,169 | €5,674 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 26-10-2026 | Mathus, Sabine
BE 0555.899.080 · sole trader · Uccle |
| 18-11-2025 | DRmedia
BE 0884.964.850 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 281 of 712 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 60 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 60310 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Editions de l’Avenir PresseNamur 174 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Belga News AgencyBrussels 122 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 CONTEXTE BELGIQUEBrussels 20.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 AGENCE EUROPEBrussels 12.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 L'AVENIR HEBDO S.A.Etterbeek 12.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 21 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 13
- 227 Audiovisual sector 4
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 3
- 201 Independent retail 1
- 302 Hotels and catering 1
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 60: Programming and broadcasting
Related activities
1 other activity| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programming, broadcasting, news agency and other content distribution activities60390 | 264 | 189 | 0 | - |
Bankruptcies per year in division 60
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Jobs lost | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
2026 through April. 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 60
41 employersEmployers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
4 of the 619 companies in NACE division 60 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (1), United Kingdom (1) and Netherlands (1). Together they employ 40 of the division's 4,376 FTE: 0.9%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €19.4m awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €37.6m paid
- Federal transfers 16,342 amount as published
- EU budget €26.0m attributed share
- EU research €11.9m EU contribution
Insights on News agency activities
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €5,674 is below Belgium's €16,500. 18.5% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Liquidity of 2.47 is above Belgium's 1.66.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 28.1% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 16.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. In 12 months, 2.9 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 86% of the 87 NACE divisions.
Staff and filing. 42.8% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 341 of the 396 FTE: 86.2%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 52.4% in financial year 2020 to 64.5% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €5,118 in financial year 2020 to €5,674 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 60310 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.