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Renting and leasing of sports and recreation goods

Current registrations 966division 77: 8,431
Starters, 12 months 11712.1 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 77.2 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 58338 employers · latest accounts
Median age 5.3 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 85.5%826 of 966 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 77210 · financial year 2025 · 233 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
25.0%
division 33.6% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€4,152
division €10,261 · Belgium €16,497
Median equity
€52,990
division €136,617 · Belgium €98,338
Loss-making
38.6%
division 33.5% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
22.3%
division 17.2% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
10.5%
division 9.7% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
0.95
division 1.15 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
43.4%
financial year 2024, 228 filings · division 38.8% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
5.5%
of 254 companies with annual accounts · division 6.6% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 25.4%22.0%23.0%26.0%27.9%25.0%
Median net result €4,300€7,437€9,266€7,965€5,736€4,152

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
10
1.04% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
12
12.4 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
19-10-2026 AUTOMATIC SOLUTIONS INVEST
BE 0819.485.890
28-05-2026 Living Abroad
BE 0438.440.592
10-04-2026 DYNAMIXX.BE
BE 0742.723.951
20-03-2026 Lebacol Composite Company
BE 0810.630.582
04-03-2026 ANIMOTION
BE 0458.674.792
23-02-2026 Cruize46
BE 0800.926.921
23-02-2026 Maxial
BE 1006.194.163
20-08-2025 Van Bercklaer, Robbi
BE 0800.835.562 · sole trader · Schoten

Every bankruptcy in division 77, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 434 of 966 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 319 · 73.5%
  • Wallonia 89 · 20.5%
  • Brussels 20 · 4.6%
  • Abroad 6 · 1.4%
fewer moremax 80

Largest employers

NACE 77210 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 De Fietsambassade GentGhent 75.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 VELOLeuven 67.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 emTransitAnderlecht 65.1 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Swapfiets BelgiëAntwerp 44.9 FTEfinancial year 2024
  5. 5 CYCLIS BIKE LEASEHasselt 43.2 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 68 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 35
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 18
  • 109 Clothing and garment industry 5
  • 302 Hotels and catering 5
  • 149.04 Metal trade 4
  • 201 Independent retail 4
  • 112 Garages 3
  • 124 Construction 3
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  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 2
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 2
  • 304 Performing arts 2
  • 333 Tourist attractions 2
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 139 Inland shipping 1
  • 149 Sectors related to metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 1
  • 215 White-collar workers in the clothing and garment industry 1
  • 312 Department stores 1
  • 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 77: Rental and leasing

Related activities

7 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Renting and leasing of other personal and household goods77229 868 53 0 1,032
Rental and leasing activities77222 506 41 0 474
Rental and leasing activities77223 291 16 1 377
Rental and leasing activities77221 234 15 0 322
Rental and leasing activities77224 175 23 1 35
Rental and leasing activities77225 141 5 0 277
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Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Rental and leasing activities77226 44 7 0 101

Bankruptcies per year in division 77

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies844664616337383470576138
Jobs lost12666971471094763651048610960

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 77

686 employers
Median
€64,700
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€51,600 to €77,500
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
46 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €61,500 €48,800 to €76,100 451
10 to 49 FTE €68,200 €58,000 to €80,800 187
50 to 249 FTE €73,000 €60,800 to €90,800 41

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 77
Number
110
Half have run longer than
24 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
38%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,621 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 9 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

Foreign control in NACE division 77

5,099 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €32.2m awarded 783 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Ecologiepremie+
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €108,350 paid 8 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • Federal transfers 56.4m amount as published 12 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotatie aan het Algemeen Rijksarchief. (ARA)
  • EU budget €1.1m attributed share 7 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: General equipment, vehicle, furniture
  • EU research €1.5m EU contribution 3 recipients · 2015 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Renting and leasing of sports and recreation goods

Balance sheet and result. 22.3% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. The median net result of €4,152 is below Belgium's €16,497. Solvency of 25.0% is below Belgium's 46.1%.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.8% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 7.2 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 74% of the 88 NACE divisions.

Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 12.1 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 89% of the 87 NACE divisions. Half of the companies are younger than 5.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 55.1% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 43.4% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 297 of the 583 FTE: 50.9%.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 09-11-2026 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 77210 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 1,276,461 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,442 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.