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Combined facilities support activities

Current registrations 1,255division 81: 36,808
Starters, 12 months 997.9 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 64.8 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 4,80292 employers · latest accounts
Median age 12.7 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 88.1%1,106 of 1,255 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 81100 · financial year 2025 · 651 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
50.2%
division 40.2% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€15,338
division €12,289 · Belgium €16,492
Median equity
€294,133
division €67,230 · Belgium €98,323
Loss-making
29.8%
division 23.4% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
9.8%
division 10.1% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
5.8%
division 17.4% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.59
division 1.48 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
36.8%
financial year 2024, 673 filings · division 43.5% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
4.6%
of 698 companies with annual accounts · division 7.2% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 42.5%46.3%46.1%48.4%50.8%50.2%
Median net result €12,237€15,928€13,436€12,577€15,662€15,338

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
15
1.20% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
19
15.1 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
05-10-2026 Eupen Shopping Center
BE 0862.222.904
08-07-2026 COMPAGNIE D'INVESTISSEMENT COMMERCIAL
BE 0889.854.343
01-07-2026 TWINIMMO
BE 0480.378.345
20-04-2026 D&A RENOVATION
BE 0792.355.386
30-03-2026 Chambers Engineering
BE 0800.182.791
11-03-2026 Morgül, Arian
BE 0758.848.420 · sole trader · Ohey
28-04-2025 Phoenix Immo-Construct
BE 0780.553.456
26-03-2025 Magiclean
BE 0628.577.618

Every bankruptcy in division 81, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 829 of 1,255 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 502 · 60.6%
  • Wallonia 172 · 20.7%
  • Brussels 139 · 16.8%
  • Abroad 16 · 1.9%
fewer moremax 153

Largest employers

NACE 81100 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 EQUANS ServicesSaint-Josse-ten-Noode 2,081 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 VEOLIA NV-SASint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) 1,311 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Vebego Cleaning en ServicesAalst 468 FTEfinancial year 2020
  4. 4 IPS BELGIUMNivelles 96.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 JONES LANG LASALLE SERVICESBrussels 72.7 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 140 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 82
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 34
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 28
  • 124 Construction 13
  • 121 Cleaning 12
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 6
  • 302 Hotels and catering 6
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 4
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  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 4
  • 145 Horticulture 2
  • 201 Independent retail 2
  • 102.09 Quarries 1
  • 116 Chemical industry 1
  • 125.02 Wood industry 1
  • 142.03 Recovery of raw materials 1
  • 149.04 Metal trade 1
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 1
  • 307 Insurance brokers and agencies 1
  • 313 Pharmacies and pricing offices 1
  • 317 Security and surveillance services 1

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

Division 81: Building services and landscaping

Related activities

4 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Landscape service activities81300 21,090 2,276 77 6,619
Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning81220 6,863 863 90 26,667
General cleaning of buildings81210 6,679 1,444 101 30,676
Other cleaning activities81230 1,703 317 13 2,186

Bankruptcies per year in division 81

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies346307346307339249248310339383389304
Jobs lost2,1381,6951,6431,0882,4645769908811,1681,3421,3171,325

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 81

1,075 employers
Median
€50,500
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€41,900 to €61,300
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
72 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €51,500 €42,900 to €61,300 594
10 to 49 FTE €51,400 €43,500 to €61,700 324
50 to 249 FTE €46,700 €36,600 to €62,700 111
250 FTE or more €38,600 €33,100 to €45,400 46

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 81
Number
476
Half have run longer than
23 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
33%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,651 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 10 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

15 of the 12,183 companies in NACE division 81 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (5), France (3) and Luxembourg (3). Together they employ 2,496 of the division's 70,951 FTE: 3.5%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €1.53bn awarded 1,885 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Dienstencheques
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.3m paid 4 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux services agréés pour l'aide au lien
  • Federal transfers 42.7m amount as published 5 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Bijkomende federale dotaties aan de hulpverleningszones
  • EU budget €255.2m attributed share 12 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Linked to buildings
  • EU research €2.9m EU contribution 4 recipients · 2019 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Combined facilities support activities

Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 5.8% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 9.8% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. 29.8% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 4.8 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 61% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.4% is above Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 12.7 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Brussels holds 17.1% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. 33.9% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 4,030 of the 4,802 FTE: 83.9%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 42.5% in financial year 2020 to 50.2% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €12,237 in financial year 2020 to €15,338 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 10-11-2026 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 81100 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 1,276,421 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,557 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.