Tattoo and piercing services
Filed accounts
NACE 96992 · financial year 2025 · 135 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 23.1% | 19.7% | 16.5% | 18.4% | 19.8% | 26.4% |
| Median net result | €2,363 | €1,359 | €1,601 | €1,027 | €3,170 | €2,756 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 05-10-2026 | Pieraerts, Jordy
BE 0773.381.988 · sole trader · Lebbeke |
| 23-09-2026 | Kisman, Stephanie
BE 0784.787.111 · sole trader · Antwerp |
| 13-07-2026 | Somers, Wim
BE 0681.405.105 · sole trader · Turnhout |
| 07-07-2026 | Iqbal, Tareck
BE 0789.633.547 · sole trader · Kortrijk |
| 13-04-2026 | Verstiggelen, Andy
BE 0668.847.761 · sole trader · Grobbendonk |
| 09-04-2026 | Bervoets, Tamara
BE 0744.540.920 · sole trader · Tongeren-Borgloon |
| 17-12-2025 | Tattoeternitoe
BE 0780.474.272 |
| 30-07-2025 | Broeckx, Seppe
BE 0671.568.909 · sole trader · Turnhout |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 247 of 2,177 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 96992 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 InksaneRoeselare 2.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 SKINCENTERS ANTWERPENAntwerp 1.9 FTEfinancial year 2024
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 16 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 9
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 4
- 201 Independent retail 4
- 314 Hairdressing and beauty care 2
- 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 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 | 6,937 | 793 | 6 | 5,891 |
| Pet care services, excluding veterinary services96993 | 3,824 | 508 | 3 | 35 |
| Pet training96994 | 1,030 | 112 | 1 | 41 |
| Personal service activities96910 | 781 | 28 | 5 | 18,222 |
| Pet boarding96995 | 666 | 74 | 1 | 65 |
| Personal service activities96991 | 96 | 3 | 0 | - |
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 |
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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 Tattoo and piercing services
Balance sheet and result. 33.3% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. The median net result of €2,756 is below Belgium's €16,520. Return on equity of 26.7% is above Belgium's 15.9%.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 1.3% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 3.2 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 62% of the 88 NACE divisions.
Inflow and structure. 88.7% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 14.2 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 93% of the 87 NACE divisions. Half of the companies are younger than 4.6 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 54.0% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 2 largest employers hold 4 of the 4 FTE: 100.0%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 23.1% in financial year 2020 to 26.4% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €2,363 in financial year 2020 to €2,756 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 96992 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.