Business succession index · 🇧🇪 Belgium · East Flanders
Equipment and plant hire in East Flanders: business succession
Equipment and plant hire in East Flanders: of 512 active companies, 15.2% have been registered for 30 years or more (Belgium: 17.1%). That ranks 6 of 7 regions for this trade.
Equipment and plant hire across Belgium
| Region | Companies | 30 yrs+ | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antwerp | 791 | 148 | 18.7% |
| Brussels | 253 | 46 | 18.2% |
| West Flanders | 436 | 75 | 17.2% |
| Hainaut | 261 | 42 | 16.1% |
| Flemish Brabant | 328 | 51 | 15.5% |
| East Flanders | 512 | 78 | 15.2% |
| Limburg | 350 | 53 | 15.1% |
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.