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Activities of professional membership organisations

Current registrations 1,001division 94: 9,774
Starters, 12 months 141.4 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 1,862126 employers · latest accounts
Median age 23.9 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 76.7%768 of 1,001 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past twelve months.

Filed accounts

NACE 94120 · financial year 2025 · 317 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
69.0%
division 63.6% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€16,701
division €9,679 · Belgium €16,497
Median equity
€776,325
division €579,014 · Belgium €98,338
Loss-making
35.0%
division 36.8% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
3.5%
division 4.7% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
2.7%
division 2.3% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
5.44
division 4.75 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
26.5%
financial year 2024, 317 filings · division 25.3% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
5.9%
of 354 companies with annual accounts · division 8.9% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 65.1%66.7%64.9%65.4%67.4%69.0%
Median net result €33,089€55,656€14,542€14,343€22,694€16,701

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
2
0.20% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
4
4.0 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
10-02-2025 MARNIC
BE 0661.997.284
28-10-2022 LTS-RESTAURANTS
BE 0890.319.151

Every bankruptcy in division 94, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 980 of 1,001 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Brussels 534 · 54.5%
  • Flanders 208 · 21.2%
  • Wallonia 180 · 18.4%
  • Abroad 58 · 5.9%
fewer moremax 534

Largest employers

NACE 94120 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Association Pharmaceutique Belge-Algemene Pharmaceutische BondBrussels 96.8 FTEfinancial year 2024
  2. 2 Unie van Zelfstandige OndernemersBrussels 81.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 ASSURALIA (beroepsvereniging van verzekeringsondernemingen)Saint-Josse-ten-Noode 72.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 FOST PLUSEvere 64.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 amforiWoluwe-Saint-Pierre 55.4 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 152 companies
  • 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 63
  • 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 45
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 17
  • 313 Pharmacies and pricing offices 5
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 4
  • 330 Health institutions and services 4
  • 329 Socio-cultural sector 3
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 3
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  • 329.03 Socio-cultural sector 3
  • 330.04 Health institutions and services 3
  • 216 Notaries' employees 2
  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 2
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 1
  • 211 Oil industry and trade 1
  • 302 Hotels and catering 1
  • 322 Temporary agency work and approved local services 1
  • 326 Gas and electricity 1
  • 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 1
  • 333 Tourist attractions 1
  • 336 Liberal professions 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 business and employers' organisations94110 1,244 24 1 3,146

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

958 employers
Median
€78,700
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€63,300 to €99,500
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 €64,400 to €95,700 418
50 to 249 FTE €90,100 €69,400 to €109,700 65

1 of the 8,468 companies in NACE division 94 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: United States (1). Together they employ 22 of the division's 17,290 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 professional membership organisations

Balance sheet and result. Liquidity of 5.44 is above Belgium's 1.66. Return on equity of 2.7% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 3.5% 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 57.9% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 23.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 1.9% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 26.5% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 370 of the 1,862 FTE: 19.9%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 65.1% in financial year 2020 to 69.0% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €33,089 in financial year 2020 to €16,701 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 09-11-2026 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 94120 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 1,276,461 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,442 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.