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Office administrative, office support and other business support activities

Current registrations 187division 82: 40,648
Starters, 12 months 3116.6 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 421.4 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 3,94034 employers · latest accounts
Median age 7.6 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 79.7%149 of 187 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 82200 · financial year 2025 · 77 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
27.6%
division 47.1% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€24,780
division €17,991 · Belgium €16,516
Median equity
€95,763
division €80,778 · Belgium €98,395
Loss-making
31.2%
division 24.8% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
22.1%
division 12.0% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
18.1%
division 19.4% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.26
division 1.69 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
40.7%
financial year 2024, 81 filings · division 35.0% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
6.5%
of 93 companies with annual accounts · division 5.1% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 26.0%27.9%28.3%20.9%25.4%27.6%
Median net result €27,431€17,774€5,303€13,695€6,319€24,780

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
13
6.95% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
18
96.3 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
28-09-2026 IKANBI BELGIUM
BE 0445.248.212
15-06-2026 CHILD FOR LIFE
BE 1004.541.403
11-03-2026 Smets, Cynthia
BE 0656.612.596 · sole trader · Meise
28-01-2026 EMCC
BE 0647.904.075
13-10-2025 Soleo Contact Gent
BE 0466.878.420
13-10-2025 Soleo Contact Belgium
BE 0843.073.025
02-07-2025 Contact Solutions
BE 0690.894.871
12-05-2025 ALLSTARS IT BELGIUM
BE 0794.133.951

Every bankruptcy in division 82, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 131 of 187 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 89 · 67.9%
  • Wallonia 20 · 15.3%
  • Brussels 17 · 13.0%
  • Abroad 5 · 3.8%
fewer moremax 25

Largest employers

NACE 82200 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 WEngageMachelen (Brab.) 1,057 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 24+Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht 491 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 N-ALLOCharleroi 475 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 IKANBI BELGIUMLiège 394 FTEfinancial year 2024
  5. 5 LOUIS VUITTON SERVICES EUROPEBrussels 270 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 54 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 50
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 10
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 1
  • 201 Independent retail 1
  • 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 1

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

Division 82: Office administrative support

Related activities

6 other activities

Bankruptcies per year in division 82

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies141126163132167130103140151173179150
Jobs lost304211373183306368237297279272401590

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 82

1,325 employers
Median
€69,900
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€51,900 to €91,400
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
26 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €66,600 €50,500 to €90,400 841
10 to 49 FTE €72,700 €54,100 to €93,500 374
50 to 249 FTE €75,400 €53,500 to €97,900 89
250 FTE or more €76,100 €56,900 to €89,800 21

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 82
Number
339
Half have run longer than
18 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
26%
Belgium: 31%

Measured 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.

Outcome by court and division

83 of the 22,443 companies in NACE division 82 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (28), Luxembourg (13) and France (10). Together they employ 4,469 of the division's 34,398 FTE: 13%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €180.1m awarded 2,707 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Dienstencheques
  • Federal transfers 7.2m amount as published 22 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Ondersteuning aan de bijdrage van de organisaties van de civiele maatschappij en institutionele actoren in de realisatie van de doelen van de gemeenschappelijke strategische kaders (cf. art. 2.14.6 en 2.14.10 van de wetsbepalingen)
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €38.6m paid 93 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Dépense de toute nature relative au subventionnement des organes de représentation et de coordination
  • EU budget €618.9m attributed share 115 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument, Global Europe
  • EU research €161.7m EU contribution 85 recipients · 2008 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Office administrative, office support and other business support activities

Balance sheet and result. 22.1% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. The median net result of €24,780 is above Belgium's €16,516. Solvency of 27.6% is below Belgium's 46.1%.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.4% is above Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 16.6 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 95% of the 87 NACE divisions. 29.9% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. This activity holds 0.5% of the registrations of Office administrative support.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 2,686 of the 3,940 FTE: 68.2%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 26.0% in financial year 2020 to 27.6% in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 07-11-2026 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 82200 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 1,276,547 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,272 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.