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NACE 7312

Current registrations807

Starters, 12 months · division 732,125

Employment (FTE) · division 7326,369

Median age · division 737.9 years

In NACE division 73, 8.0 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 52% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 29-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 73

fiscal year 2025 · median over 9,489 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

51.2%

higher than 82% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€76,961

lower than 77% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€14,599

lower than 52% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

9,489

Foreign control in NACE division 73

16,778 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.5%

83 of 16,778; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

21%

5,324 of 25,654 FTE; Belgium 15%

Mostly from Netherlands (26), France (14) and United Kingdom (14).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 73

352 employers of at least 10 FTE

Median

€77,300

Belgium €65,100

Middle half

€62,300 to €94,200

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

21 of 73

by median staff cost per FTE

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
10 to 49 FTE	€75,800	€61,500 to €91,400	292
50 to 249 FTE	€89,000	€75,700 to €109,400	55

Best-paying employers in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

1.36%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 59% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 73 is 0.6%, against 0.5% nationally, over 16,310 scored companies. Comparison: as of 29-09-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 73

Running bankruptcies

237

Half have run longer than

22 months

Belgium: 20 months

Longer than three years

35%

Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 64,419 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 46% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 32% after liquidation, 4% were withdrawn; 18% were still open after five years. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 49 months).

Counts companies with this main activity in the register on 29 September 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 · 533 of 807 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 356 · 66.8%

Wallonia 100 · 18.8%

Brussels 75 · 14.1%

Unknown 2 · 0.4%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
28-09-2026	Zerocopy BE 0846.192.267
31-08-2026	REGIES ET PUBLICATIONS NOUVELLES BE 0463.218.352
31-08-2026	J-RIDE BE 0743.889.931
17-06-2026	Sole trader BE 0534.471.879 · Hasselt
15-04-2026	Gré á Gré BE 0463.764.819
17-02-2026	MEDIAGEUZEN BE 0446.586.614
12-02-2025	CRM.ART BE 0890.611.636
07-02-2025	CANIS FIDELIS BE 0645.659.912

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 53

East Flanders OVL 72

Antwerp ANT 107

Flemish Brabant VLB 75

Limburg LIM 49

Brussels BRU 75

Hainaut HAI 29

Walloon Brabant WBR 23

Namur NAM 17

Liège LIE 25

Luxembourg LUX 6

fewer moremax 107

Where does this sector's wealth sit? By municipality, down to the street

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €618.8m awarded 1,930 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Dienstencheques
Federal transfers 25.2m amount as published 22 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subsidie VIAS Institute (cf. art. 2.33.2 van de algemene uitgavenbegroting)
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €28.5m paid 55 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux médias de proximité
EU budget €824.4m attributed share 141 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
EU research €207.0m eu contribution 85 recipients · 2007 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 7312 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 73, not NACE 7312 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.