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Activities of interior architects

Current registrations 3,882division 71: 39,542
Starters, 12 months 2797.2 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 194.9 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 42680 employers · latest accounts
Median age 8.0 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 91.8%3,564 of 3,882 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 71112 · financial year 2025 · 1,305 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
41.8%
division 51.0% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€9,319
division €18,887 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€50,455
division €83,963 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
26.8%
division 21.3% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
14.4%
division 8.5% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
17.3%
division 20.7% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.58
division 1.94 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
35.5%
financial year 2024, 1,276 filings · division 33.6% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
4.3%
of 1,385 companies with annual accounts · division 3.5% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 37.2%39.8%41.3%40.9%42.5%41.8%
Median net result €8,195€11,542€11,158€9,673€8,801€9,319

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
33
0.85% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
36
9.3 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
26-10-2026 INSIGHT-IN
BE 0543.354.705
15-10-2026 RVH INTERIOR
BE 0789.496.757
08-10-2026 CR33MERS
BE 0643.546.795
21-09-2026 MHB Interior Consulting
BE 0784.540.156
14-09-2026 R.L. CONSTRUCT
BE 0479.830.195
11-09-2026 AUX SAVEURS CREATIVES
BE 0781.403.789
23-07-2026 Vandewiele, Pauline
BE 0736.750.038 · sole trader · Antwerp
26-05-2026 D M INTERIEUR
BE 0872.079.092

Every bankruptcy in division 71, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 1,809 of 3,882 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 1,285 · 71.0%
  • Wallonia 262 · 14.5%
  • Brussels 254 · 14.0%
  • Abroad 8 · 0.4%
fewer moremax 457

Largest employers

NACE 71112 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 A.C.N.Izegem 77.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 AXEL VERVOORDT INTERIOR & DESIGNWijnegem 32.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 1 SPACE DESIGN-AMENAGEMENT CONSTRUCTION IMMOBILIER GROUPWaterloo 20.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 MINUSPoperinge 16.2 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 CASA VEROGeel 15.6 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 210 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 152
  • 124 Construction 26
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 25
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 21
  • 201 Independent retail 20
  • 336 Liberal professions 7
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 5
  • 302 Hotels and catering 5
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  • 106.02 Concrete industry 1
  • 109 Clothing and garment industry 1
  • 120 Textile industry 1
  • 149.04 Metal trade 1
  • 215 White-collar workers in the clothing and garment industry 1
  • 307 Insurance brokers and agencies 1
  • 331 Flemish welfare and health sector 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 71: Architecture and engineering

Related activities

5 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Activities of building architects71111 18,227 1,011 24 2,072
Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors71121 11,531 1,080 35 24,090
Urban planning and landscape architecture71113 2,244 197 6 292
Land surveying71122 1,740 59 3 706
Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis71119 38 20 0 -

Bankruptcies per year in division 71

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies12487729411276799710811499102
Jobs lost219137116183170149128211180181209184

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 71

1,478 employers
Median
€70,400
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€56,400 to €86,300
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
24 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €64,600 €50,700 to €79,300 946
10 to 49 FTE €77,600 €65,400 to €90,100 385
50 to 249 FTE €80,200 €72,400 to €100,700 123
250 FTE or more €90,000 €84,100 to €107,600 24

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 71
Number
203
Half have run longer than
20 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
39%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,562 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 6 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.

Outcome by court and division

95 of the 20,640 companies in NACE division 71 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (18), Netherlands (17) and Luxembourg (13). Together they employ 8,556 of the division's 39,215 FTE: 22%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €153.6m awarded 3,593 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
  • Federal transfers 175.0m amount as published 112 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelage aan de IVZW MYRRHA. Constructie fase 1 - MINERVA
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €263,742 paid 35 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • EU budget €305.8m attributed share 109 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €325.1m EU contribution 154 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Activities of interior architects

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €9,319 is below Belgium's €16,520. 14.4% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 4.9 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 62% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.2% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. 53.4% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 7.2 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 53% of the 87 NACE divisions. This activity holds 9.8% of the registrations of Architecture and engineering.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 162 of the 426 FTE: 38.1%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 37.2% in financial year 2020 to 41.8% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €8,195 in financial year 2020 to €9,319 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 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 71112 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 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 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.