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Activities of business and employers' organisations

Current registrations 1,244division 94: 9,774
Starters, 12 months 241.9 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 10.8 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 3,146172 employers · latest accounts
Median age 25.0 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 73.8%918 of 1,244 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

6 companies file their annual accounts outside the standard format, for example in a sector format. Their figures and staff are missing from the employment, the medians and the largest employers.

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Filed accounts

NACE 94110 · financial year 2025 · 528 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
67.4%
division 63.6% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€22,564
division €9,679 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€883,176
division €579,014 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
32.3%
division 36.8% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
2.9%
division 4.7% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
2.8%
division 2.3% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
5.21
division 4.75 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
24.2%
financial year 2024, 550 filings · division 25.3% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
7.5%
of 589 companies with annual accounts · division 8.9% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 64.5%65.3%66.2%64.8%64.7%67.4%
Median net result €34,674€40,602€14,302€25,310€28,267€22,564

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
1
0.08% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
2
1.6 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
20-10-2026 World Startup Forum
BE 0777.796.478

Every bankruptcy in division 94, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 1,231 of 1,244 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Brussels 658 · 53.5%
  • Wallonia 220 · 17.9%
  • Flanders 212 · 17.2%
  • Abroad 141 · 11.5%
fewer moremax 658

Largest employers

NACE 94110 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Vereniging van Vlaamse Steden en GemeentenBrussels 209 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 AGORIABrussels 181 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 BoerenbondLeuven 148 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 ATTENTIA, Erkend interprofessioneel Sociaal SecretariaatBerchem-Sainte-Agathe 114 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 EMBUILDBrussels 110 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 288 companies
  • 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 130
  • 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 86
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 41
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 9
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 8
  • 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 6
  • 330 Health institutions and services 5
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 4
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  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 2
  • 329 Socio-cultural sector 2
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 1
  • 211 Oil industry and trade 1
  • 302 Hotels and catering 1
  • 306 Insurance companies 1
  • 313 Pharmacies and pricing offices 1
  • 315.02 Commercial aviation 1
  • 319.01 Educational and residential institutions 1
  • 319.02 Educational and residential institutions 1
  • 324 Diamond industry and trade 1
  • 326 Gas and electricity 1

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

Division 94: Membership organisations

Related activities

1 other activity
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Activities of professional membership organisations94120 1,001 14 0 1,862

Bankruptcies per year in division 94

Per year20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies32166940354229311719
Jobs lost72288755495053432339

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 94

957 employers
Median
€78,700
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€63,300 to €99,600
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
15 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €78,300 €60,800 to €100,200 475
10 to 49 FTE €77,800 €64,500 to €95,700 417
50 to 249 FTE €90,100 €69,400 to €109,700 65

1 of the 8,461 companies in NACE division 94 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: United States (1). Together they employ 22 of the division's 17,267 FTE: 0.1%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €1.06bn awarded 842 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Sociaal-cultureel volwassenenwerk: Werkingssubsidie voor een sociaal-culturele volwassenenorganisatie met een werking in Vlaanderen en Brussel (Decreet Sociaal-cultureel Volwassenenwerk 2017)
  • Federal transfers 521.0m amount as published 190 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 €410.7m paid 738 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux centres de jeunes : fonctionnement et intervention dans la rémunération des animateurs (décret du 20 juillet 2000)
  • EU budget €1.09bn attributed share 299 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument, Global Europe
  • EU research €394.5m EU contribution 228 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Activities of business and employers' organisations

Balance sheet and result. Liquidity of 5.21 is above Belgium's 1.66. Return on equity of 2.8% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 2.9% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 60.4% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 25.0 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 0.2% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 24.2% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 761 of the 3,146 FTE: 24.2%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 64.5% in financial year 2020 to 67.4% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €34,674 in financial year 2020 to €22,564 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 94110 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.