Activities of head offices

NACE 70100

Current registrations5,706

Starters, 12 months · division 709,471

Employment (FTE) · division 7083,007

Median age · division 707.1 years

In NACE division 70, 10.7 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 78% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 29-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 70

fiscal year 2025 · median over 43,964 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

54.9%

higher than 92% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€115,519

lower than 54% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€28,850

higher than 80% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

43,964

Foreign control in NACE division 70

74,525 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.3%

239 of 74,525; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

20%

10,652 of 53,919 FTE; Belgium 15%

Mostly from Netherlands (52), France (46) and Luxembourg (32).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 70

789 employers of at least 10 FTE

Median

€84,400

Belgium €65,100

Middle half

€69,500 to €107,900

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

14 of 73

by median staff cost per FTE

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
10 to 49 FTE	€82,100	€68,000 to €103,700	624
50 to 249 FTE	€91,700	€77,700 to €120,700	138
250 FTE or more	€79,400	€67,600 to €105,100	27

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Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

0.65%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 72% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 70 is 0.2%, against 0.5% nationally, over 66,837 scored companies. Comparison: as of 29-09-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 70

Running bankruptcies

607

Half have run longer than

18 months

Belgium: 20 months

Longer than three years

27%

Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 64,419 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 46% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 32% after liquidation, 4% were withdrawn; 18% were still open after five years. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 49 months).

Counts companies with this main activity in the register on 29 September 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector: the activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

Regional split

by region · 5,589 of 5,706 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 4,867 · 87.1%

Wallonia 456 · 8.2%

Brussels 250 · 4.5%

Unknown 16 · 0.3%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
23-09-2026	YBO Consult BE 0805.166.415
07-09-2026	B2B Lighting BE 1021.221.047
07-07-2026	Red Apple Investments BE 0673.600.860
08-06-2026	Dumolein BE 0652.781.294
08-06-2026	L.Y. Management BE 0787.757.982
27-04-2026	SCRIVENDO BE 0774.633.981
09-03-2026	MSVDM BE 0794.742.774
02-03-2026	PROSPER GROUP BE 1005.613.549

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 1,798

East Flanders OVL 981

Antwerp ANT 1,222

Flemish Brabant VLB 469

Limburg LIM 397

Brussels BRU 250

Hainaut HAI 93

Walloon Brabant WBR 46

Namur NAM 41

Liège LIE 260

Luxembourg LUX 16

fewer moremax 1,798

Where does this sector's wealth sit? By municipality, down to the street

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €229.9m awarded 7,286 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Ontwikkelingsproject
Federal transfers 38.7m amount as published 35 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Ondersteuning aan de bijdrage van de organisaties van de civiele maatschappij en institutionele actoren in de realisatie van de doelen van de gemeenschappelijke strategische kaders (cf. art. 2.14.6 en 2.14.10 van de wetsbepalingen)
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €5.8m paid 27 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Conventions et contrats programmes indexés dans le domaine des arts vivants
EU budget €1.59bn attributed share 218 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument, Global Europe
EU research €575.3m eu contribution 196 recipients · 2008 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 70100 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 70, not NACE 70100 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.