Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning
Filed accounts
NACE 81220 · financial year 2025 · 2,101 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 40.5% | 42.0% | 44.1% | 44.8% | 44.9% | 45.3% |
| Median net result | €9,987 | €12,227 | €11,715 | €11,567 | €12,992 | €11,709 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 05-11-2026 | MISS PROPRETE
BE 0757.939.984 |
| 05-11-2026 | Petroca, Alexe
BE 0839.771.956 · sole trader · Anderlecht |
| 30-10-2026 | CLEANING & Co
BE 0711.890.225 |
| 30-10-2026 | CLEANING4YOU
BE 0725.716.881 |
| 30-10-2026 | AS TECH COMPANY
BE 0782.221.064 |
| 27-10-2026 | HYGIE
BE 0741.406.335 |
| 26-10-2026 | Cǎlugǎreanu, Ştefan
BE 0739.669.045 · sole trader · Jette |
| 23-10-2026 | Mirrorman
BE 0762.503.637 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 3,212 of 6,864 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 81 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 81220 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 ISS FACILITY SERVICESBrussels 5,283 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 LAURENTYLiège 2,454 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 IRIS FACILITY SOLUTIONSEvere 2,095 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 GomAntwerp 1,948 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 CLEANING MASTERSAntwerp 1,672 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 665 companies- 121 Cleaning 495
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 355
- 124 Construction 109
- 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 13
- 302 Hotels and catering 13
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 11
- 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 9
- 116 Chemical industry 7
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- 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 6
- 322.01 Approved companies for local work and services 6
- 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 5
- 140 Transport and logistics 4
- 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 4
- 201 Independent retail 4
- 110 Textile care 3
- 142.04 Recovery of raw materials 3
- 145 Horticulture 3
- 101 Mining 2
- 120 Textile industry 2
- 126 Furnishing and woodworking 2
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 81: Building services and landscaping
Related activities
2 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General cleaning of buildings81210 | 6,679 | 1,443 | 101 | 30,676 |
| Other cleaning activities81230 | 1,701 | 316 | 13 | 2,184 |
Bankruptcies per year in division 81
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 346 | 307 | 346 | 307 | 339 | 249 | 248 | 310 | 339 | 383 | 389 | 304 |
| Jobs lost | 2,138 | 1,695 | 1,643 | 1,088 | 2,464 | 576 | 990 | 881 | 1,168 | 1,342 | 1,317 | 1,325 |
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| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 81Measured 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.
15 of the 12,176 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 70,944 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
- Federal transfers 42.7m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.3m paid
- EU budget €255.2m attributed share
- EU research €2.9m EU contribution
Insights on Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €11,709 is below Belgium's €16,520. 9.2% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 1.0% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 13.1 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 93% of the 88 NACE divisions.
Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 19.8% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. In 12 months, 12.5 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 91% of the 87 NACE divisions. 53.2% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 48.8% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 13,452 of the 26,667 FTE: 50.4%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 40.5% in financial year 2020 to 45.3% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €9,987 in financial year 2020 to €11,709 in financial year 2025.
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 2025 classification, the version in which code 81220 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.
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.