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NACE 74103
Current registrations4,777
Starters, 12 months · division 74
3,430
Employment (FTE) · division 74
6,362
Median age · division 74
5.8 years

In NACE division 74, 10.9 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 80% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 03-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 74

fiscal year 2025 · median over 4,988 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
48.8%
higher than 73% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€47,730
lower than 94% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€9,450
lower than 70% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
4,988

Foreign control in NACE division 74

8,759 registered companies

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 74

334 employers
Median
€63,100
Belgium €61,200
Middle half
€51,800 to €80,100
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
48 of 78
by median staff cost per FTE
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €59,100 €48,200 to €73,800 239
10 to 49 FTE €70,800 €59,700 to €97,500 81

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
29
Historical share
0.61%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 73% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 74 is 0.2%, against 0.2% nationally, over 8,649 scored companies. Comparison: as of 03-10-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 74
Running bankruptcies
135
Half have run longer than
17 months
Belgium: 21 months
Longer than three years
27%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 107,664 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

Counts companies with this main activity in the register on 4 October 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 · 1,399 of 4,777 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 953 · 68.1%
Wallonia 254 · 18.2%
Brussels 191 · 13.7%
Unknown 1 · 0.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
17-09-2026 Cîrlan, Cristian-Constantin
BE 0744.785.497 · sole trader · Aalst
15-09-2026 ALBASIGN
BE 0758.913.944
17-07-2026 DMDSGN
BE 0744.725.517
06-07-2026 4th Avenue
BE 0432.059.675
19-06-2026 desiRED
BE 0779.850.801
17-06-2026 D.N.A. GROUP
BE 0536.728.813
19-05-2026 KWAC
BE 0746.486.759
22-04-2026 MLK DIGITAL
BE 0792.683.802

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 362

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €74.0m awarded 1,202 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
  • Federal transfers 145.8m amount as published 9 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotatie aan Sciensano
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.4m paid 39 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Aides pluriannuelles dans le domaine des arts plastiques
  • EU budget €155.1m attributed share 47 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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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 2008 nomenclature, the one in which code 74103 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 74, not NACE 74103 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.