Staff
578.9 FTE
525 people on 31-12-2025-36% on 2024
Sector
median 18.4 FTEhighest quarter
Ontex: employer check
Ontex (Buggenhout) averaged 579 full-time equivalents in fiscal year 2025. Is the workforce growing, do people stay, and how does the employer compare with its sector?
Turnover
34%
88 joined, 207 left
Sector
median 16%highest quarter
Staff cost per FTE
€91,300
fiscal year 2025 · cost to the employer, not a salary
Not in the rankings: staff down by more than a third on the year before (departures during the year, with notice and severance pay, distort that year).
Training
42.3 hours per FTE
24,493 hours in total · €1,478,100
Sector
61% report trainingmedian 17.8 hmiddle half
Staff cost per FTE over the years
euro per full-time equivalent€71,071
2020
€67,417
2021
€71,747
2022
€77,023
2023
€80,550
2024
From 2020 to 2024 the staff cost per FTE rose by 13%.
Staff over the years
average FTE1,178
2020
1,104
2021
1,003
2022
978.1
2023
908.2
2024
578.9
2025
From 2020 to 2025 staff fell by 51%. Years before the social balance in this form come from the accounts themselves.
Entries and exits
joinedleft
105 · 227
2021
111 · 178
2022
107 · 132
2023
86 · 440
2024
88 · 207
2025
Why people left in 2025
- Retirement11
- Unemployment with company top-up (early retirement)2
- Dismissal by the employer137
- Other reason (end of a temporary contract, resignation)57
Make-up on 31-12-2025
525 peopleFull-time and part-timesector: 13% part-time
full-time 455 (87%)part-time 70 (13%)
Men and womensector: 25% women
men 356 (68%)women 169 (32%)
Type of contractsector: 100% permanent
permanent 525 (100%)
Job category
white-collar 268 (51%)blue-collar 257 (49%)
Training in 2025
| Participants | Hours | Cost | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Formal | 411 | 4,612 | €352,600 |
| Less formal | 361 | 19,881 | €1,125,500 |
Training cost is 2.8% of personnel cost.
Agency workers in 2025
- On average at work
- 64.1
- Hours worked
- 113,903
- Cost to the company
- €4,581,300
Sector
65% use agency workersmedian 8%middle half
Agency workers and people placed at the company's disposal by another business; they are not on its own payroll register.
Every figure per fiscal year
as filed| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average staff (FTE) | 1,104.2 | 1,002.7 | 978.1 | 908.2 | 578.9 |
| Full-time / part-time (average) | 983.5 / 157.3 | 881.1 / 159.9 | 850 / 167.8 | 792.4 / 151 | 513.8 / 83.5 |
| People at the closing date | 1,091 | 1,023 | 998 | 644 | 525 |
| Hours worked | 1,450,693 | 1,292,708 | 1,259,000 | 1,192,392 | 776,938 |
| Personnel cost | €74,362,100 | €71,817,200 | €75,224,300 | €73,056,700 | €52,769,200 |
| Joined (people) | 105 | 111 | 107 | 86 | 88 |
| Left (people) | 227 | 178 | 132 | 440 | 207 |
| Exit rate | 20% | 17% | 13% | 47% | 34% |
| Training hours | 16,502 | 19,924 | 37,746 | 29,148 | 24,493 |
| Agency workers (average) | 80.6 | 110.2 | 89.4 | 63.6 | 64.1 |
Recognised training company
dual learning, FlandersNot in the Flemish register of recognised dual-learning workplaces.
Employer stability
- Status Active; no open bankruptcy or judicial reorganisation.
- Financial health Checked score 82/100 (excellent), accounts 2025
- Filing of accounts Accounts for 2025 filed on time.
- Staff Average staff fell by 36% on 2024. A transfer of staff to another company, for instance within a group, looks the same.
- In business since 02-06-1979 (47 years)
How to read these figures
- Source: the social balance in the annual accounts the company filed with the National Bank of Belgium. It covers its own staff, not that of its subsidiaries.
- Personnel cost is the employer's total cost (gross pay, employer contributions, insurance and other benefits), not an employee's pay.
- The staff costs of the annual accounts (item 62) divided by the average staff in full-time equivalents of the same fiscal year: what one full-time employee costs the employer, social contributions included. Neither a gross nor a net salary.
- The sector is the NACE division of the main activity. Percentages are compared with employers of at least 5 FTE; the middle half runs from the first to the third quartile.
- Exits are the number of leavers in full-time equivalents against average staff. Students, flexi-jobs and seasonal work are included and can make the percentage high.