Key sectors

A wide range of factors, including a highly qualified workforce, investments in R&D and stimuli provided by the public authorities to encourage investments, mean that Belgium is at the leading edge of a whole series of business sectors. All these assets, and many more, make Belgium a particularly fruitful place to do business and an appealing country for foreign investors.

Addresses and websites

  • AWEX - Wallonia Export & Investment Agency
  • Brussels Enterprise Agency - BEA
  • Flanders Investment & Trade
  • Federation of Enterprises in Belgium - FEB
  • Federation for the Technology Industry - AGORIA
  • Belgian Insurance Association - Assuralia
  • Belgian Air Transport Association - BATA
  • Royal Belgian Shipowners' Association
  • Belgian Association of Pulp, Paper and Board Manufacturers - COBELPA
  • CREAMODA (manufacturers, designers, wholesalers and agencies active in the Belgian fashion industry)
  • Belgian Federation for Chemistry and Life Sciences Industries - ESSENSCIA
  • Belgian Brick Industry Federation - FBB/BBF
  • Belgian Precast Concrete Federation - FEBE
  • Federation of Belgian Electricity and Gaz Companies - FEBEG
  • Federation of the Belgian Cement Industry - FEBELCEM
  • Belgian Financial Sector Federation - FEBELFIN
  • Federation of the Belgian Graphics Industry - FEBELGRA
  • The Belgian Federation of the Car and Two-wheeler Industries - FEBIAC
  • Federation of Partners for Work - FEDERGON
  • Federation of Extractive and Processing Industries for Non-Energetic Rocks - FEDIEX
  • Belgian Federation of Distributors - FEDIS
  • Federation of the Textile, Wood and Furniture Sector - FEDUSTRIA
  • Federation of Enterprises in environmental management - FEBEM/FEGE
  • Federation of Paper and Board Converting Industries - FETRA
  • Food Industry Federation - FEVIA
  • Federation of the Glass Industry - FIV/VGI
  • Belgian Petroleum Federation - FPB/BPF
  • Federation of Employers in International Trade, Transport ans Allied Sectors
  • Federation of Belgian Port Employers
  • Iron and Steel Group - GSV
  • Sand Pits Group
  • Association of Consulting Engineers, Engineering- and Consultancybureaus- ORI
  • Federation of the Electricity and Gas network operators in Belgium - SYNERGRID
  • General Union of the Belgian Cleaning Sector - UGBN/ABSU
  • Professional Union of Belgian Fibre Cement Manufacturers
  • Construction Confederation
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