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Current registrations 2,242division 71: 39,536
Starters, 12 months 1978.8 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 62.7 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 29244 employers · latest accounts
Median age 6.8 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 92.9%2,083 of 2,242 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 71113 · financial year 2025 · 654 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
43.6%
division 51.0% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€12,864
division €18,867 · Belgium €16,500
Median equity
€56,700
division €83,936 · Belgium €98,350
Loss-making
23.7%
division 21.3% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
9.0%
division 8.5% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
22.2%
division 20.7% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.66
division 1.94 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
38.4%
financial year 2024, 631 filings · division 33.6% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
4.3%
of 698 companies with annual accounts · division 3.5% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 40.1%40.9%39.2%43.1%44.0%43.6%
Median net result €12,538€15,112€13,632€13,672€12,644€12,864

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
22
0.98% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
23
10.3 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
14-10-2026 AR Green Design
BE 0783.549.469
25-09-2026 JR Jardins
BE 0802.505.150
16-09-2026 GROWFLEX TUINBOUW
BE 0760.662.419
19-08-2026 BUREAU D'ARCHITECTES GUILLAUME VERMEULEN
BE 0830.501.924
15-04-2026 BOCAGE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
BE 0720.520.156
27-01-2026 Tuinarchitect Bjarne Hufkens
BE 0744.762.634
08-10-2025 Pochez, Eric
BE 0562.568.227 · sole trader · Braine-l'Alleud
29-09-2025 BLOEN
BE 0739.691.217

Every bankruptcy in division 71, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 926 of 2,242 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 618 · 66.7%
  • Wallonia 197 · 21.3%
  • Brussels 100 · 10.8%
  • Abroad 11 · 1.2%
fewer moremax 185

Largest employers

NACE 71113 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 DESSIN PERFORMANCE ENERGIEPaliseul 41.1 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 MITIOHerentals 32.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 TUINEN STIJN BOUCHETTongeren-Borgloon 20.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 GRUUN-TUINENHerenthout 18.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 VECTRISLeuven 10.9 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 124 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 55
  • 145 Horticulture 49
  • 336 Liberal professions 25
  • 124 Construction 7
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 4
  • 201 Independent retail 2
  • 142.04 Recovery of raw materials 1
  • 144 Agriculture 1
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  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 1
  • 302 Hotels and catering 1
  • 304 Performing arts 1
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 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 1,013 24 2,072
Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors71121 11,526 1,080 35 24,114
Activities of interior architects71112 3,882 279 19 426
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

1,479 employers
Median
€70,400
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€56,300 to €86,200
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 €64,700 €50,700 to €79,300 947
10 to 49 FTE €77,600 €65,400 to €90,000 384
50 to 249 FTE €80,300 €72,600 to €102,800 124
250 FTE or more €90,000 €84,100 to €107,600 24

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 71
Number
205
Half have run longer than
20 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
39%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,642 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 7 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 20,655 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 39,223 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 3,592 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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Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 22.2% is above Belgium's 15.9%. 9.0% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. The median net result of €12,864 is below Belgium's €16,500.

Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 2.7 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 69% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. 58.7% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 6.8 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. This activity holds 5.7% of the registrations of Architecture and engineering.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 123 of the 292 FTE: 42.3%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 40.1% in financial year 2020 to 43.6% in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 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 71113 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 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 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.