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NACE 8551
Current registrations13,475
Starters, 12 months · division 85
4,034
Employment (FTE) · division 85
31,450
Median age · division 85
6.0 years

In NACE division 85, 11.4 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 85% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 85

fiscal year 2025 · median over 3,180 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
47.9%
higher than 70% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€63,244
lower than 87% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€8,819
lower than 75% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
3,180

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
23
Historical share
0.17%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 84% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 85 is 0.0%, against 0.5% nationally, over 10,078 scored companies. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 2,478 of 13,475 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 1,581 · 63.8%
Wallonia 687 · 27.7%
Brussels 210 · 8.5%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
25-08-2026 Sole trader
BE 0504.919.543 · Verviers
25-08-2026 Eclat de Lune
BE 0756.949.594
22-04-2026 PALAOUI
BE 0849.606.865
13-04-2026 Sole trader
BE 0662.354.897 · Court-Saint-Etienne
09-04-2026 Sole trader
BE 0729.592.626 · Andenne
03-04-2026 THE SIMBA TEAM
BE 0773.705.949
25-03-2026 AKOWAH ATH
BE 0798.639.305
04-03-2026 The Vault Performance Centre
BE 0770.641.541

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 486

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €2.49bn awarded 1,679 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies voor de bouw en renovatie van scholen
  • Federal transfers 251.0m amount as published 76 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotatie aan het Instituut voor gerechtelijke opleiding
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €4.86bn paid 1,339 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions forfaitaires - Enseignement de plein exercice
  • EU budget €1.21bn attributed share 88 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €2.41bn eu contribution 44 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 8551 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 85, not NACE 8551 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.