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PRACTICAL: employer check

PRACTICAL (Knokke-Heist) averaged 32 full-time equivalents in financial year 2025. Is the workforce growing, do people stay, and how does the employer compare with its sector?

PRACTICAL
BE 0455.352.345Knokke-HeistNACE 47.521, Retail sale of hardware, building materials, paint and glass (general range)
Social balance 2025 · full formatOther company
Staff
31.7 FTE
34 people on 31-12-2025-6% on 2024
Sector median 3.6 FTEhighest quarter
Turnover
24%
6 joined, 8 left
Sector median 59%lowest quarter
Staff cost per FTE
€52,800
financial year 2025 · cost to the employer, not a salary
Sector Higher than 62% of employers in Retail trade with 10 to 49 FTE
Training
7.8 hours per FTE
248 hours in total · €7,500
Sector 29% report trainingmedian 27.8 hmiddle half

Staff cost per FTE over the years

euro per full-time equivalent

From 2020 to 2025 the staff cost per FTE rose by 17%. The sector's median is €46,300.

Highest staff cost per FTE in Retail trade

Staff over the years

average FTE

From 2020 to 2025 staff fell by 11%. Years before the social balance in this form come from the accounts themselves.

Entries and exits

joinedleft

Why people left in 2025

  • Dismissal by the employer3
  • Other reason (end of a temporary contract, resignation)5

Make-up on 31-12-2025

34 people
Full-time and part-timesector: 33% part-time
full-time 25 (74%)part-time 9 (26%)
Men and womensector: 50% women
men 24 (71%)women 10 (29%)
Type of contractsector: 90% permanent
permanent 34 (100%)
Job category
white-collar 34 (100%)

Training in 2025

ParticipantsHoursCost
Formal 20 248 €7,500

Training cost is 0.4% of personnel cost.

Agency workers in 2025

On average at work
2.5
Hours worked
4,942
Cost to the company
€118,300
Sector 23% use agency workersmedian 4%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 financial year

as filed
20212022202320242025
Average staff (FTE)36.935.133.333.931.7
Full-time / part-time (average)32.6 / 6.330.6 / 6.627.4 / 7.926.7 / 9.624.6 / 9.3
People at the closing date4037363634
Hours worked55,82354,06650,52553,04547,520
Personnel cost€1,534,100€1,671,700€1,675,300€1,763,200€1,675,300
Joined (people)64626
Left (people)27728
Exit rate5%19%21%5%24%
Training hours62255388299248
Agency workers (average)4.12.641.82.5

Recognised training company

dual learning, Flanders

Not in the Flemish register of recognised dual-learning workplaces.

Employer stability

  • Status Active; no open bankruptcy or judicial reorganisation.
  • Financial health Checked score 81/100 (excellent), accounts 2025
  • Filing of accounts Accounts for 2025 filed on time.
  • In business since 08-06-1995 (31 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 financial 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.