Personal service activities
Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 26-10-2026 | BLOCKCHAIN
BE 0693.792.993 |
| 21-10-2026 | van de Craats, Senne
BE 0521.877.321 · sole trader · Riemst |
| 14-09-2026 | MIAMI SUN EVENTS
BE 0458.406.657 |
| 10-09-2026 | Lenaerts, Michelle
BE 0711.694.146 · sole trader · Lokeren |
| 25-08-2026 | FORTUNA ROSAE
BE 1003.041.168 |
| 22-07-2026 | Hek, Pamela
BE 0799.506.068 · sole trader · Ostend |
| 06-07-2026 | Dejonghe, Cynthia
BE 0739.601.937 · sole trader · Vosselaar |
| 26-06-2026 | De Cock, Sophia
BE 0890.901.844 · sole trader · Sint-Niklaas |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 892 of 5,223 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
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Division 96: Personal services
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 96 · financial year 2025 · 8,242 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 25.8% | 27.4% | 26.1% | 25.6% | 27.3% | 28.5% |
| Median net result | - | - | €2,580 | €4,152 | €2,250 | €2,846 | €3,870 | €3,264 |
| Filed late | 48.2% | 55.0% | 53.7% | 52.1% | 50.1% | 48.8% | 48.2% | - |
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Bankruptcies per year in division 96
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 271 | 263 | 267 | 301 | 320 | 184 | 194 | 292 | 327 | 333 | 362 | 274 |
| Jobs lost | 585 | 631 | 475 | 646 | 517 | 377 | 469 | 564 | 614 | 635 | 599 | 491 |
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 96
860 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €44,100 | €35,200 to €56,400 | 454 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €37,700 | €33,900 to €47,100 | 261 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €36,500 | €33,100 to €40,100 | 128 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 96Measured nationally: Of 108,810 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% 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 15 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.
10 of the 12,503 companies in NACE division 96 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Luxembourg (3), Germany (2) and France (2). Together they employ 707 of the division's 33,172 FTE: 2.1%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €1.43bn awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €430,531 paid
- Federal transfers 17.7m amount as published
- EU budget €81.1m attributed share
- EU research €24.1m EU contribution
Insights on Personal service activities
Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 17.1% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. This activity holds 7.4% of the registrations of Personal services.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 15-11-2026 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 2008 classification, the version in which code 96040 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 1,276,359 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,951 registrations publish no activity.