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Landscape service activities

Current registrations 21,098division 81: 36,824
Starters, 12 months 2,28610.8 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 773.6 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 6,620561 employers · latest accounts
Median age 7.4 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 95.0%20,038 of 21,097 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 81300 · financial year 2025 · 4,359 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
36.5%
division 40.2% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€13,054
division €12,279 · Belgium €16,468
Median equity
€71,700
division €67,181 · Belgium €98,204
Loss-making
21.5%
division 23.3% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
10.0%
division 10.1% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
17.2%
division 17.4% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.33
division 1.48 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
38.6%
financial year 2024, 4,122 filings · division 43.5% · Belgium 38.5%
Missing or 90 days late
4.2%
of 4,627 companies with annual accounts · division 7.2% · Belgium 5.5%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 32.4%34.4%34.2%35.9%36.9%36.5%
Median net result €12,003€14,046€13,879€10,824€11,683€13,054

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
203
0.96% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
222
10.5 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
13-11-2026 Tuin- & Grondwerken Beau Vert
BE 0765.203.207
05-11-2026 Toelen, Thomas
BE 1011.798.189 · sole trader · Zoutleeuw
30-10-2026 Deghislage, Thibaut
BE 0633.632.209 · sole trader · Morlanwelz
21-10-2026 MULTISEPA
BE 0760.514.147
19-10-2026 De Praeter, Koen
BE 0770.180.592 · sole trader · Wielsbeke
19-10-2026 Tendance Piscine et Spa
BE 0774.768.001
15-10-2026 Schellekens, Rick
BE 0723.702.251 · sole trader · Lommel
09-10-2026 AE PLEISTERWERK
BE 0666.579.050

Every bankruptcy in division 81, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 6,099 of 21,098 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 4,262 · 69.9%
  • Wallonia 1,638 · 26.9%
  • Brussels 150 · 2.5%
  • Abroad 49 · 0.8%
fewer moremax 1,168

Largest employers

NACE 81300 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 KRINKELSForest 714 FTEfinancial year 2026
  2. 2 AraleaBrasschaat 262 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 SERVIPLASTBastogne 144 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Les Jeunes Jardiniers,Uccle 141 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 DANIEL SERU EN ZONENVeurne 125 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 1,193 companies
  • 145 Horticulture 898
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 330
  • 124 Construction 153
  • 201 Independent retail 38
  • 132 Technical farming and horticulture work 27
  • 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 16
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 14
  • 119 Food trade 14
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  • 121 Cleaning 10
  • 302 Hotels and catering 10
  • 144 Agriculture 9
  • 125.01 Wood industry 7
  • 149.04 Metal trade 7
  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 5
  • 125 Wood industry 4
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 4
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 4
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 3
  • 116 Chemical industry 3
  • 146 Forestry 3

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
Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning81220 6,868 869 89 26,676
General cleaning of buildings81210 6,686 1,454 100 30,676
Other cleaning activities81230 1,703 318 13 2,186
Combined facilities support activities81100 1,253 98 6 4,802

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

1,076 employers
Median
€50,600
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€42,000 to €61,400
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 €61,300 595
10 to 49 FTE €51,600 €43,500 to €61,800 323
50 to 249 FTE €46,600 €36,600 to €62,200 112
250 FTE or more €38,600 €33,100 to €45,400 46

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 81
Number
477
Half have run longer than
23 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
33%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,810 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% 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 14 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 12,181 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 70,961 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 Landscape service activities

Balance sheet and result. Solvency of 36.5% is below Belgium's 46.1%. The median net result of €13,054 is below Belgium's €16,468. Liquidity of 1.33 is below Belgium's 1.66.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.7% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 3.6 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 55% of the 88 NACE divisions.

Inflow and structure. 71.1% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 10.8 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 80% of the 87 NACE divisions. Wallonia holds 27.1% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 1,384 of the 6,620 FTE: 20.9%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 32.4% in financial year 2020 to 36.5% in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 14-11-2026 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 81300 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 1,276,430 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 700,464 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.