Manufacture of leather and related products
Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 03-04-2026 | JPN RETAIL
BE 0561.910.508 |
| 02-05-2024 | GG Concept
BE 0767.596.434 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 41 of 59 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
The balance sheets of division 15 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 15200 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 AFT InternationalRanst 30.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 BELGIAN SHOESIzegem 12.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 AMBIORIXTongeren-Borgloon 12.4 FTEfinancial year 2026
- 4 JPN RETAILBrussels 6.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 ATELIER CONTENTRonse 6.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
Companies
59 with this main activity- AFT International Ranst · 30.7 FTE
- BELGIAN SHOES Izegem · 12.5 FTE
- AMBIORIX Tongeren-Borgloon · 12.4 FTE
- JPN RETAIL Brussels · 6.8 FTE
- ATELIER CONTENT Ronse · 6.6 FTE
- Matton Pieter Orthopedie Nazareth-De Pinte · 6.6 FTE
- Gevavi Hasselt · 6.4 FTE
- BRULS ORTHOPEDIE Malmedy · 5.2 FTE
- BELGIAN QUALITY SHOES AND LEATHERWARE GROUP Tongeren-Borgloon · 3.9 FTE
- ORTHOPEDIE MARTENS Pelt · 1.0 FTE
- AFT International Group Ranst
- Antivigilia, Vito sole trader · Antwerp
- ATLAS Shoes Sint-Joost-ten-Node
- Blondeau, Wendy sole trader · Elsene
- BOCO Haaltert
- BRONZED BABYSHOE Edegem
- Brughmans, Pieter sole trader · Hoogstraten
- BTW EENHEID BAVASA Izegem
- ÇAVA! Izegem
- Cuschera, Carmelo sole trader · Mons
- Degryse, Carine sole trader · Roeselare
- DEKEYSER INVEST Torhout
- De Ryck, Marie sole trader · Rotselaar
- Desnerck, Laurens sole trader · Laarne
- Formic Lasne
- Gebroeders Groven Hasselt
- GESPODO LAB Enghien
- GEUBELS ORTHOPEDIE Lille
- GG Concept Charleroi
- Grigoryan, Lilit sole trader · Nieuwpoort
- GVA CREATIONS Oudenaarde
- Hacardiaux, Xavier sole trader · Binche
- Hilelis, Yoannis sole trader · Dour
- Joon Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
- KARBOWSKI REPAIRS Rixensart
- KATZ EUROPE Genk
- Kinamania Elsene
- KREA VISTA Oudenaarde
- Lieckens, Roxanne sole trader · Antwerp
- LOVIHEELS Verviers
- Mees, Güdrun sole trader · Ostend
- MOVE 2 IMPROVE Temse
- NATALIE VAN LIJSEBETTENS Antwerp
- NEW EVER BEST Charleroi
- ORTHO SHOE Roeselare
- PELMAHOLD Deinze
- Petrus, Els sole trader · Anderlecht
- PodoProductions Rixensart
- Rizzo, Vincenzo sole trader · Elsene
- Rondags, Bjorn sole trader · Bilzen-Hoeselt
- Saelen, Evi sole trader · Mol
- Sebert Shoe Waregem
- SYNAPS Antwerp
- TECONOR Stabroek
- VACA Asse
- Vandevelde, Heidi sole trader · Houthulst
- VANO Tielt
- Vervaecke, Koenraad sole trader · Blankenberge
- WALK 2 IMPROVE Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
Division 15: Leather and related products
Related activities
2 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of leather and related products15120 | 248 | 44 | 0 | 78 |
| Manufacture of leather and related products15110 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 118 |
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 15 · financial year 2025 · 69 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 34.9% | 40.6% | 38.1% | 42.6% | 45.1% | 42.1% |
| Median net result | €11,426 | -€257 | €9,196 | €1,268 | €1,843 | €1,168 |
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Bankruptcies per year in division 15
| Per year | 2016 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Jobs lost | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
2024 through November. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
None of the 86 companies in NACE division 15 has a parent company abroad.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €301,290 awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €21,000 paid
Insights on Manufacture of leather and related products
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.5% is above Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 15.6 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 30.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. This activity holds 17.6% of the registrations of Leather and related products.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 69 of the 82 FTE: 84.4%.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 05-11-2026 02:05.
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 15200 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 1,275,944 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,201 registrations publish no activity.
For NACE 15200, 29 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.