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NACE 741 · division 74 Other professional activities
Current registrations 11,364division 74: 31,151
Starters, 12 months 3,350division 74 · 10.8 per 100 · Belgium 7.5
Bankruptcies, 5 years 780.69% of the registrations · Belgium 1.61%
Employment (FTE) 6,615division 74 · financial year 2025
Median age 5.8 yearsdivision 74 · Belgium 10.7 years

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 74 · financial year 2025 · 6,046 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
46.4%
Belgium 46.2%
Median net result
€10,122
Belgium €16,569
Median equity
€51,887
Belgium €98,595
Loss-making
28.7%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
13.7%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
20.7%
Belgium 16.0%
Median liquidity
1.72
Belgium 1.66

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 74

336 employers
Median
€63,200
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€51,400 to €80,800
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
49 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €59,200 €48,000 to €74,000 241
10 to 49 FTE €72,900 €60,000 to €97,800 80

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 12 months
73
division 74 · 2.3 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 5.5

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
12-10-2026 CADAYA
BE 0748.934.228
12-10-2026 THE SKIF - DIGITAL AGENCY
BE 0793.253.528
12-10-2026 Pack & Co
BE 0837.547.092
17-09-2026 Cîrlan, Cristian-Constantin
BE 0744.785.497 · sole trader · Aalst
15-09-2026 Vuylsteke, Peter
BE 0678.326.344 · sole trader · Zwevegem
15-09-2026 ALBASIGN
BE 0758.913.944
24-08-2026 Boyen, Stephane Jacques
BE 0729.383.481 · sole trader · Tienen
17-07-2026 DMDSGN
BE 0744.725.517

Every bankruptcy in division 74, last 90 days

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 74
Number
136
Half have run longer than
17 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
26%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,424 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entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn.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 1 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

Spread across the country

by region and province · 3,422 of 11,364 enterprises with a registered office on file
  • Flanders 2,367 · 69.2%
  • Wallonia 598 · 17.5%
  • Brussels 453 · 13.2%
  • Unknown 4 · 0.1%
fewer moremax 888

Largest employers

NACE division 74 · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 BIO BASE EUROPE PILOT PLANTGhent 152 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 JABIL CIRCUIT BELGIUMHasselt 146 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Vlaams EnergiebedrijfBrussels 104 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 DBM - COLORWetteren 101 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 SPACE APPLICATIONS SERVICESZaventem 91.3 FTEfinancial year 2025

19 of the 8,771 companies in NACE division 74 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (6), United Kingdom (5) and France (3). Together they employ 369 of the division's 3,999 FTE: 9.2%, against 15% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €74.1m awarded 1,201 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
  • Federal transfers 147.3m amount as published 11 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotatie aan Sciensano
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.4m paid 38 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Aides pluriannuelles dans le domaine des arts plastiques
  • EU budget €155.1m attributed share 46 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €180.5m eu contribution 46 recipients · 2008 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Other professional, scientific and technical activities

The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 74 is higher than that of 82% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.

This sector's historical share is lower than that of 69% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.

The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 74 is 0.2%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 8,584 scored companies.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 01-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 741 exists.

The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

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 "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.

The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 74, not only NACE 741. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's 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.