Business succession index · 🇧🇪 Belgium · East Flanders
Food manufacturing in East Flanders: business succession
Food manufacturing in East Flanders: of 268 active companies, 33.6% have been registered for 30 years or more (Belgium: 27.8%). That ranks 2 of 3 regions for this trade.
Food manufacturing across Belgium
| Region | Companies | 30 yrs+ | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Flanders | 328 | 113 | 34.5% |
| East Flanders | 268 | 90 | 33.6% |
| Antwerp | 257 | 78 | 30.4% |
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.