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NACE 9112

Current registrations28

Starters, 12 months · division 9136

Employment (FTE) · division 914,770

Median age · division 9118.8 years

In NACE division 91, 3.8 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 83% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 22-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 91

financial year 2025 · median over 223 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

53.0%

higher than 89% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median equity

€429,048

higher than 86% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median net result

€17,500

higher than 56% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Annual accounts in sample

223

Foreign control in NACE division 91

659 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.2%

1 of 659; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

0.9%

29 of 3,210 FTE; Belgium 15%

Main parent countries: Ireland (1).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 91

115 employers

Median

€67,500

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€56,500 to €79,100

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

35 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€67,900	€58,800 to €83,500	41
10 to 49 FTE	€64,300	€51,600 to €75,300	65

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

0.00%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 91 is 0.0%, against 0.2% nationally, over 727 scored companies. Comparison: as of 22-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 23 of 28 enterprises with a registered office on file

Wallonia 8 · 34.8%

Flanders 8 · 34.8%

Brussels 7 · 30.4%

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 0

East Flanders OVL 3

Antwerp ANT 3

Flemish Brabant VLB 2

Limburg LIM 0

Brussels BRU 7

Hainaut HAI 3

Walloon Brabant WBR 1

Namur NAM 1

Liège LIE 3

Luxembourg LUX 0

fewer moremax 7

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €416.7m awarded 118 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Aankoopsubsidie met het oog op erkenning als natuurreservaat
Federal transfers 172.6m amount as published 19 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotatie aan de Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis. (KMKG)
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €87.0m paid 145 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Conventions et contrats programmes indexés dans le domaine des bibliothèques
EU budget €27.8m attributed share 18 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Programme for Environment and Climate Action
EU research €11.3m eu contribution 9 recipients · 2008 to 2026 · 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 9112 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 91, not NACE 9112 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.