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NACE 42911
Enterprises157
Bankruptcies (5y)4
Failure rate2.55%

Nationally 1.50% of enterprises go bankrupt within five years; this failure rate is higher than that of 85% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 42 is 0.8%, against 0.5% nationally, over 2,566 scored companies.

Key figures for NACE division 42

fiscal year 2025 · median over 1,638 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
42.9%
lower than 58% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€115k
lower than 56% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€19k
higher than 61% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
1,638

Regional split

by region · 103 of 157 enterprises with a registered office on file
Vlaanderen 78 · 75.7%
Wallonië 22 · 21.4%
Brussel 3 · 2.9%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

4
Date Company
07-09-2026 Valcke Heavy Equipment Operator
BE 0750.741.792
01-07-2024 BERNARD DE CLERCQ
BE 0687.795.722
26-06-2024 MD BAGGERWERKEN
BE 0788.808.849
21-12-2022 GREG TRAVAUX MAINTENANCE
BE 0744.745.709

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 29
How these figures are counted

Enterprises are counted by their primary NACE; establishment units are not counted. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 42911 exists.

Bankruptcies and the failure rate are attributed by each company's current primary NACE, not the NACE at the time of bankruptcy (which the gazette does not record).

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 42, not NACE 42911 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Medians over NBB annual accounts, all schema types combined.