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Temporary employment agencies, selection and recruitment firms, headhunters and other staffing providers: for job sites, HR software vendors, trainers and service providers who want to reach the branches of a staffing network by province.
Our Belgian database holds 779,149 records (as of 5 November 2026); they are not yet assigned to industries. The quote states the size available for this industry.
Export of the whole industry: €429 (excluding VAT). Selections by province, municipality or your own filters are quoted on request.
Official statistics: 2,943 businesses in Belgium according to Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act), number of enterprises (reference year 2024, Eurostat update of 30 September 2026, retrieved on 4 November 2026). Division 78 employment activities: placement agencies (78.1), temporary employment agencies (78.2) and other provision of human resources (78.3). This is the size of the market, not the size of our database.
The industry corresponds to NACE-BEL division 78: employment placement, temporary employment and other provision of staff. In Flanders they are called uitzendkantoren, in Brussels and Wallonia often bureaux d’intérim.
Large staffing groups run dozens of branches under one enterprise number; each branch is an establishment unit with its own address. There are also many small selection firms and self-employed recruiters without an office of their own.
| NACE-BEL 2008 | Official title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 78.10 | Activities of employment placement agencies | selection and recruitment firms, headhunters |
| 78.20 | Temporary employment agency activities | temporary staffing branches |
| 78.30 | Other human resources provision | including payrolling and secondment |
Anyone offering temporary work in Belgium needs an approval from the region where they operate. These approvals tell you about permission to operate, not how to reach an office.
These 14 columns are included.
Anyone selling HR software or job advertising often targets both the head offices of the networks and the niche firms. Anyone offering office fit-out or local services needs the individual branches. Tell us in your request which of the two you are looking for.
Staffing agencies are almost always companies. An email without consent to an impersonal address such as info@ or the general address of a branch falls under the exception for legal entities if the offer is intended for legal entities; self-employed recruiters trading in their own name require consent. For a call campaign, check the numbers against the Do Not Call Me list first.
We run a job platform for logistics and are looking for temporary employment agencies (78.20) in the provinces of Antwerp, Limburg and Liège with a website, for a letter followed by a phone call. Please count executive search firms separately.
Use cases
Approach agencies by province with an advertising package.
Load selection firms and networks with a website into the CRM.
Invite branches to training courses for temporary workers.
Find individual branches in a city by postcode.
Questions
Yes, on request, based on the category and the name in the source (in the statistics, class 78.20) and with a selection by region or province. Our records do not yet carry a NACE-BEL code; before quoting we tell you how reliable this selection is. For Brussels you can decide whether to include the branches there and in which language to write to them.
The export shows the branches as they appear in the source, each with its own address. If you only want the head offices of the groups, say so in your request.
Yes, telephone prospecting to businesses is allowed if you first check the numbers against the Do Not Call Me list. More: telemarketing to businesses and the Do Not Call Me list.
2,943 businesses in Belgium according to Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act), number of enterprises (reference year 2024, Eurostat update of 30 September 2026, retrieved on 4 November 2026). Division 78 employment activities: placement agencies (78.1), temporary employment agencies (78.2) and other provision of human resources (78.3). This is a figure from official statistics, not the size of our dataset.
Format, sources, price and the rules for email and phone marketing in Belgium: questions about all industries.
