Business consulting
Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 05-11-2026 | GROEP VERELST
BE 0478.654.121 |
| 05-11-2026 | DYNAMICS CONSULTING & SERVICES
BE 0655.900.340 |
| 03-11-2026 | van der Elst, Jeroen Alexander
BE 0832.417.574 · sole trader · Antwerp |
| 30-10-2026 | Excel Transport & Logistics
BE 0724.898.816 |
| 29-10-2026 | FINFLATE
BE 0753.796.205 |
| 29-10-2026 | SERVICES ADMINISTRATION ET GESTION
BE 0802.446.158 |
| 28-10-2026 | COMPAGNIE IMMOBILIERE INDUSTRIELLE DU LUXEMBOURG
BE 0405.619.950 |
| 28-10-2026 | UQ
BE 0669.828.154 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 59,423 of 65,893 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 70 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Division 70: Head offices and management consultancy
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 70 · financial year 2025 · 56,777 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 | - | - | €21,005 | €25,460 | €26,955 | €28,139 | €29,033 | €29,393 |
| 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
2,961 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 | €68,300 to €105,500 | 628 |
| 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 108,621 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% 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 9 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 74,981 companies in NACE division 70 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (53), France (44) and Luxembourg (31). Together they employ 10,561 of the division's 53,967 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
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Inflow and structure. This activity holds 74.7% of the registrations of Head offices and management consultancy.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 09-11-2026 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 70220 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 1,276,461 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,442 registrations publish no activity.