Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities
Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 06-11-2026 | Hernou, Kristof
BE 0789.633.052 · sole trader · Dendermonde |
| 12-10-2026 | TIBERONE TECHNOLOGIES
BE 0770.488.519 |
| 03-08-2026 | AddRetail
BE 0641.968.962 |
| 15-07-2026 | Maerten, Tamara
BE 0562.929.404 · sole trader · Diksmuide |
| 14-07-2026 | IFREQ
BE 0787.244.773 |
| 01-07-2026 | PHI TRADING
BE 0826.256.094 |
| 22-05-2026 | Vandevenne, Alexis
BE 0777.387.989 · sole trader · Awans |
| 20-05-2026 | ABT CONSEIL
BE 0648.578.226 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 8,784 of 11,587 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
- Abroad
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Division 70: Head offices and management consultancy
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 70 · financial year 2025 · 56,830 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 52.3% | 53.7% | 54.3% | 55.3% | 56.5% | 54.7% |
| Median net result | - | - | €21,015 | €25,473 | €26,955 | €28,142 | €29,036 | €29,375 |
| Filed late | 36.6% | 41.7% | 39.3% | 37.5% | 35.6% | 33.6% | 31.9% | - |
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Bankruptcies per year in division 70
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 397 | 391 | 449 | 484 | 453 | 307 | 286 | 380 | 423 | 447 | 532 | 349 |
| Jobs lost | 694 | 625 | 696 | 761 | 600 | 559 | 530 | 645 | 897 | 978 | 1,034 | 569 |
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 70
2,962 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €70,000 | €52,300 to €92,500 | 2,163 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €82,800 | €68,200 to €105,400 | 629 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €93,600 | €78,500 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
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 70Measured nationally: Of 108,768 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 13 November 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.
237 of the 74,970 companies in NACE division 70 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (53), France (44) and Luxembourg (31). Together they employ 10,559 of the division's 53,980 FTE: 20%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €229.9m awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €5.8m paid
- Federal transfers 40.7m amount as published
- EU budget €1.60bn attributed share
- EU research €583.5m EU contribution
Insights on Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities
Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 19.5% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. This activity holds 13.1% of the registrations of Head offices and management consultancy.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 13-11-2026 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 2008 classification, the version in which code 70210 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 1,276,396 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 700,156 registrations publish no activity.