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NACE 74301 · financial year 2025 · 673 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 55.2% | 56.7% | 56.2% | 56.7% | 60.0% | 61.2% |
| Median net result | €8,312 | €9,161 | €8,176 | €7,998 | €6,385 | €5,975 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 13-07-2026 | Celnicu, Maria
BE 0740.895.007 · sole trader · Molenbeek-Saint-Jean |
| 22-04-2026 | TXT - IBIS INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
BE 0437.065.865 |
| 10-04-2026 | HAQIQ
BE 1015.557.237 |
| 08-04-2026 | AZZAN
BE 0790.547.723 |
| 30-03-2026 | AZZAN
BE 0790.547.723 |
| 27-02-2026 | Van Lembergen, Valérie
BE 0723.618.713 · sole trader · Antwerp |
| 09-02-2026 | CONNECTING DOTS
BE 1000.635.865 |
| 24-11-2025 | ARS LINGUAE
BE 0478.515.648 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 1,069 of 4,450 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 74 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 74301 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 ACOLAD BELGIUMBrussels 52.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 YAMAGATA EUROPEGhent 34.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 SDL BELGIUMLeuven 26.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 LanguageWireLeuven 18.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 STOQUARTMons 16.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 76 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 71
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 14
- 102.01 Quarries 1
- 119 Food trade 1
- 227 Audiovisual sector 1
- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 1
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 74: Other professional activities
Related activities
1 other activity| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other professional, scientific and technical activities74302 | 201 | 114 | 0 | - |
Bankruptcies per year in division 74
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 63 | 63 | 82 | 49 | 72 | 63 | 52 | 74 | 78 | 87 | 85 | 77 |
| Jobs lost | 101 | 101 | 143 | 93 | 120 | 95 | 84 | 100 | 153 | 120 | 121 | 107 |
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
337 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €59,400 | €48,100 to €74,100 | 242 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €72,900 | €60,000 to €97,800 | 80 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 74Measured 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.
19 of the 8,774 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 4,006 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
- Federal transfers 147.3m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.4m paid
- EU budget €155.1m attributed share
- EU research €180.7m EU contribution
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Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €5,975 is below Belgium's €16,500. Liquidity of 2.39 is above Belgium's 1.66. Solvency of 61.2% is above Belgium's 46.1%.
Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 1.8 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 74% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.2% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. 76.0% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 4.1 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 77% of the 87 NACE divisions. Half of the companies are younger than 11.5 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 149 of the 260 FTE: 57.2%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 55.2% in financial year 2020 to 61.2% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €8,312 in financial year 2020 to €5,975 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 74301 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.