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NACE 70200

Current registrations82,475

Starters, 12 months · division 709,409

Employment (FTE) · division 7075,491

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 77% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 29-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 70

financial year 2025 · median over 53,808 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

54.8%

higher than 92% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median equity

€109,657

lower than 57% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median net result

€29,495

higher than 81% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Annual accounts in sample

53,808

Foreign control in NACE division 70

74,896 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.3%

237 of 74,896; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

20%

10,586 of 54,214 FTE; Belgium 15%

Main parent countries: Netherlands (54), France (44) and Luxembourg (31).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 70

2,961 employers

Median

€75,100

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€56,100 to €96,400

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

19 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€69,900	€52,300 to €92,400	2,165
10 to 49 FTE	€82,800	€68,500 to €106,300	626
50 to 249 FTE	€93,600	€77,900 to €120,700	143
250 FTE or more	€83,400	€68,200 to €104,200	27

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

611

Historical share

0.74%

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 68% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 70 is 0.1%, against 0.2% nationally, over 66,874 scored companies. Comparison: as of 29-10-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 70

Running bankruptcies

622

Half have run longer than

18 months

Belgium: 20 months

Longer than three years

28%

Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,397 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

Counts companies with this main activity in the register on 29 October 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 · 72,363 of 82,475 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 46,982 · 64.9%

Wallonia 15,219 · 21.0%

Brussels 10,085 · 13.9%

Unknown 77 · 0.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
28-10-2026	COMPAGNIE IMMOBILIERE INDUSTRIELLE DU LUXEMBOURG BE 0405.619.950
28-10-2026	UQ BE 0669.828.154
26-10-2026	VIANA & D ENTREPRISE BE 0790.329.769
26-10-2026	i-Gott BE 0890.924.214
26-10-2026	WILLIAMS DIOMANDE BE 1025.192.901
23-10-2026	DEVS CORP BE 1016.594.246
21-10-2026	HYGIEIA BE 0700.711.667
21-10-2026	C.H. BE 0827.938.649

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 7,260

East Flanders OVL 10,749

Antwerp ANT 14,753

Flemish Brabant VLB 9,749

Limburg LIM 4,471

Brussels BRU 10,085

Hainaut HAI 3,242

Walloon Brabant WBR 4,895

Namur NAM 1,861

Liège LIE 4,769

Luxembourg LUX 452

fewer moremax 14,753

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €229.9m awarded 7,307 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Ontwikkelingsproject
Federal transfers 40.7m amount as published 42 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 €1.60bn attributed share 221 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument, Global Europe
EU research €586.1m eu contribution 197 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 70200 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 70200 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.