Day spas, saunas and steam baths
Filed accounts
NACE 96230 · financial year 2025 · 693 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 13.1% | 15.5% | 16.6% | 17.7% | 21.6% | 21.4% |
| Median net result | -€666 | €4,647 | €2,529 | €3,939 | €5,370 | €2,559 |
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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 |
| 15-07-2026 | JDATA
BE 0547.747.023 |
| 06-07-2026 | Dejonghe, Cynthia
BE 0739.601.937 · sole trader · Vosselaar |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 1,054 of 6,643 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 96 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 96230 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 SOCIETE D'EXPLOITATION DES THERMES DE SPASpa 60.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Sane-VantiltTongeren-Borgloon 37.2 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 THLONLonderzeel 31.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 DOMAINE DES THERMESAwans 27.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 Thermen KataraSint-Niklaas 22.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 169 companies- 314 Hairdressing and beauty care 129
- 302 Hotels and catering 27
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 12
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 11
- 330 Health institutions and services 4
- 124 Construction 2
- 109 Clothing and garment industry 1
- 121 Cleaning 1
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- 126 Furnishing and woodworking 1
- 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 1
- 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 1
- 201 Independent retail 1
- 319.02 Educational and residential institutions 1
- 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 1
- 340 Orthopaedic technologies 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 96: Personal services
Related activities
2 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty care and other beauty treatments96220 | 25,005 | 3,237 | 64 | 295 |
| Hairdressing and barber services96210 | 21,706 | 1,614 | 120 | 889 |
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
857 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €44,300 | €35,300 to €56,500 | 452 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €37,700 | €33,900 to €47,100 | 261 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €36,500 | €33,200 to €40,200 | 127 |
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 108,562 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% 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 6 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 12,485 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 32,973 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
- Federal transfers 17.7m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €430,531 paid
- EU budget €81.1m attributed share
- EU research €24.1m EU contribution
Insights on Day spas, saunas and steam baths
Balance sheet and result. 34.5% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. The median net result of €2,559 is below Belgium's €16,520. 41.1% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.7% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 4.4 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 57% of the 88 NACE divisions.
Inflow and structure. 84.1% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Brussels holds 16.3% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. In 12 months, 11.2 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 84% of the 87 NACE divisions.
Staff and filing. 53.0% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 179 of the 417 FTE: 43.0%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 13.1% in financial year 2020 to 21.4% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from -€666 in financial year 2020 to €2,559 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 96230 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.