Personal service activities
No bankruptcy in the past twelve months.
Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 21-06-2024 | LifeStyle Design
BE 0899.559.885 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 43 of 97 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
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 2 companies- 302 Hotels and catering 1
- 341 Intermediation in banking and investment services 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 96: Personal services
Related activities
6 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other personal services96999 | 6,934 | 793 | 6 | 5,891 |
| Pet care services, excluding veterinary services96993 | 3,827 | 508 | 3 | 35 |
| Tattoo and piercing services96992 | 2,175 | 310 | 7 | 4 |
| Pet training96994 | 1,030 | 112 | 1 | 41 |
| Personal service activities96910 | 781 | 29 | 5 | 18,219 |
| Pet boarding96995 | 667 | 74 | 1 | 65 |
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 96 · financial year 2025 · 8,206 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 | €2,244 | €2,855 | €3,874 | €3,244 |
| Filed late | 48.2% | 55.0% | 53.8% | 52.1% | 50.0% | 48.8% | 48.1% | - |
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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
857 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €44,200 | €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 108,651 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 10 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 12,491 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 33,164 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
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.4% is above Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. 55.7% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. This activity holds 0.1% of the registrations of Personal services.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 10-11-2026 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 96991 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 1,276,421 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,557 registrations publish no activity.
For NACE 96991, 24 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.