Business succession index · 🇧🇪 Belgium · West Flanders
Machinery manufacturing in West Flanders: business succession
Machinery manufacturing in West Flanders: of 308 active companies, 36% have been registered for 30 years or more (Belgium: 32.5%). That ranks 1 of 2 regions for this trade.
Machinery manufacturing across Belgium
| Region | Companies | 30 yrs+ | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Flanders | 308 | 111 | 36% |
| Antwerp | 266 | 60 | 22.6% |
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.