Market map · Belgium

Ecommerce stores in Belgium_

As of 4 November 2026, 20,660 ecommerce stores are based in Belgium: 268 with 51+ employees, 41 hiring right now, led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Antwerpen.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
20,660
51+ employees
268 · 1%
Hiring now
41 · 13 new in 30 d
Largest segment
General consumer goods ecommerce · 9,552
Top city
Antwerpen · 304
Running cold outbound
1
Platform detected
12,961 · 63%
20,660ecommerce stores in Belgium
268with 51+ employees
41hiring on their own career site today
13opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Ecommerce stores in Belgium, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
General consumer goods ecommerce
9,552 · 21
Fashion & apparel ecommerce
3,353 · 8
Food production, wholesale & retail
2,921 · 3
Health, beauty & food ecommerce
2,152 · 1
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce
2,082 · 8
Jewellery & watch ecommerce
830 · 0
Pet supplies ecommerce
828 · 3
Flowers, plants & home fragrance ecommerce
767 · 2
Vehicle & parts retail
590 · 1
Industrial & chemical distribution
249 · 0
Books publishing & retail
246 · 0
Machinery equipment wholesale
228 · 2
Restaurants pubs cafes
187 · 0
Visual art galleries & prints
182 · 0
Handmade craft makers
180 · 0
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
1,229 · 0
2-10 employees
18,220 · 5
11-50 employees
943 · 17
51-200 employees
176 · 5
201-500 employees
50 · 6
501-1000 employees
27 · 3
1001-5000 employees
12 · 4
5001-10000 employees
1 · 0
10,001+ employees
2 · 1
By city
companiesshare
Antwerpen
3041%
Bruxelles
2661%
Gent
2281%
Brussels
1981%
Rumbeke
1321%
Sint-Lambrechts-Herk
1191%
Walem
1191%
Zellik
1161%
Rocourt
1071%
Brugge
1000%
Genk
1000%
Kortrijk
990%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest ecommerce stores in Belgium

The largest ecommerce stores of the country, by headcount; marketplaces, portals and directories left out.

20,660 ecommerce stores in Belgium; 41 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of ecommerce stores in Belgium

Tools found on these companies' websites and in their DNS records, page plumbing left out.

05 — Shop platforms

What Belgium's ecommerce stores run on

Ecommerce platform, payment providers and marketing stack, read from the stores' own pages and DNS. A platform is detected on 12,961 stores (63%); headless, custom and undetected builds make up the rest. Shares are of all 20,660 stores. Payments and marketing cover only the providers our crawl detects today (PayPal, Stripe, Klarna, SumUp; Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Brevo and the like).

Payment providers
storesshare
PayPal
1811%
Stripe
1491%
Klarna
1101%
Marketing & support stack
storesshare
Mailchimp
1,7929%
Brevo
8334%
Microsoft Clarity
3972%
Hotjar
3021%
Klaviyo
3011%
MailerLite
2301%
Matomo
1911%
tawk.to
1781%
Zendesk
1481%
Pinterest
1291%
HubSpot
830%
ActiveCampaign
540%
Ecommerce stores by industry
storesshare
Commerce & trade
18,63890%
Automotive
5973%
Media & content
4892%
Manufacturing & industry
3132%
Hospitality & travel
2481%
Health care
1711%
Consumer services & leisure
730%
Property & construction
690%
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20,660 ecommerce stores are based in Belgium: 268 with 51 or more employees, 41 hiring right now (13 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Antwerpen. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/belgium)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Ecommerce stores in Belgium: questions

How many ecommerce stores are there in Belgium?

20,660 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 268 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company is an ecommerce store?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which ecommerce stores in Belgium are hiring?

41 have an open role on their own career site today and 13 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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Yes: filter on ecommerce stores and Belgium, add size, city or technology, and export with verified e-mails. The first 20 largest companies are on this page.

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