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Current registrations 1,528division 74: 31,178
Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered 171.11% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%

Bankruptcies

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
24-08-2026 Boyen, Stephane Jacques
BE 0729.383.481 · sole trader · Tienen
28-05-2026 LABORATORIUM 4337
BE 0867.262.944
06-05-2026 Studio Moonshot
BE 0707.645.484
01-04-2026 Anton Bros
BE 0777.534.875
13-02-2026 Bouwwerken Van Dijck
BE 0766.633.758
15-12-2025 HITCH
BE 0786.832.623
26-11-2025 NATHALIE VERLINDEN
BE 0859.694.172
24-09-2025 No. 10
BE 0660.825.762

Every bankruptcy in division 74, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 455 of 1,528 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 358 · 78.7%
  • Brussels 50 · 11.0%
  • Wallonia 45 · 9.9%
  • Abroad 2 · 0.4%
fewer moremax 175

Division 74: Other professional activities

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 74 · financial year 2025 · 6,065 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
46.4%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€10,103
Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€51,883
Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
28.8%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
13.7%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
20.7%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.72
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
38.1%
financial year 2024, 5,160 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
4.6%
of 6,513 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --43.3%44.4%45.0%46.9%48.6%48.1%
Median net result --€7,372€9,829€9,631€9,275€9,703€9,590
Filed late 43.0%48.5%47.0%44.6%41.9%40.6%38.1%-

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Bankruptcies per year in division 74

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies636382497263527478878577
Jobs lost101101143931209584100153120121107

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 74

336 employers
Median
€63,200
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€51,400 to €80,900
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

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 74
Number
139
Half have run longer than
17 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
27%
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

19 of the 8,769 companies in NACE division 74 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: United Kingdom (6), Netherlands (6) and France (3). Together they employ 376 of the division's 4,005 FTE: 9.4%, against 14% 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 €180.7m EU contribution 46 recipients · 2008 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Other professional, scientific and technical activities

Inflow and structure. Flanders holds 79.0% of the seats, against 64.7% in Belgium. This activity holds 4.9% of the registrations of Other professional activities.

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 2008 classification, the version in which code 74101 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.