Business succession index · 🇧🇪 Belgium · Antwerp
Bookshops, newsagents and music shops in Antwerp: business succession
Bookshops, newsagents and music shops in Antwerp: of 414 active companies, 16.9% have been registered for 30 years or more (Belgium: 17.1%). That ranks 1 of 2 regions for this trade.
Bookshops, newsagents and music shops across Belgium
| Region | Companies | 30 yrs+ | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antwerp | 414 | 70 | 16.9% |
| Brussels | 474 | 72 | 15.2% |
Methodology
Share of ACTIVE companies with a recorded industry code that have been registered for 30 years or more. A long unchanged registration is an indicator of an approaching handover, not a statement that any company is for sale. Divisions with fewer than 50 companies are omitted, as are divisions where fewer than 5 companies carry the signal.
A trade is a group of official industry classes (NACE); a company counts under the class it registered. Only region and trade combinations with at least 250 companies are published. Source: The KBO licence (Art (snapshot 2026-09-19), licensed under KBO/BCE open data.
Aggregates only — no individual company is ever shown publicly with a succession indicator.