Wholesale trade
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 46 · financial year 2025 · 33,684 filed annual accountsStaff cost per FTE in NACE division 46
9,639 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €60,400 | €47,700 to €78,500 | 6,074 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €70,000 | €57,700 to €89,000 | 2,909 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €84,000 | €67,400 to €119,500 | 557 |
| 250 FTE or more | €80,100 | €64,800 to €98,300 | 99 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 12-10-2026 | Zanga Ekom, Jélyssa
BE 1018.461.297 · sole trader · Herstal |
| 23-03-2026 | KEMPISCH FOODSERVICE
BE 0425.149.812 |
| 12-02-2026 | JAK EXPERT
BE 0565.916.707 |
| 28-01-2026 | BENELUX MEAT & LIVESTOCK
BE 0768.291.567 |
| 06-06-2025 | INFINITY INVESTMENT
BE 0525.969.137 |
| 26-03-2025 | PLEASURE 4 PETS
BE 1009.386.651 |
| 12-03-2025 | J AND T SPORTHORSES
BE 0597.952.144 |
| 05-03-2025 | Alterna
BE 0432.881.997 |
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 46Measured nationally: Of 108,424 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 1 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 664 of 1,103 enterprises with a registered office on file- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Unknown
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 46 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPEEvere 2,787 FTEfinancial year 2026
- 2 UCB PHARMAAnderlecht 1,961 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 DECATHLON BELGIUMEvere 1,734 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 ACTIEFLummen 1,570 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 H & M HENNES & MAURITZBrussels 1,318 FTEfinancial year 2025
Foreign control in NACE division 46
45,503 registered companiesMain parent countries: Netherlands (206), Germany (128) and France (118).Show on the map by municipality
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €349.3m awarded
- Federal transfers 66.3m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €32.0m paid
- EU budget €531.5m attributed share
- EU research €52.8m eu contribution
Insights on Wholesale trade
The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 46 is lower than that of 72% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.
This sector's historical share is higher than that of 50% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.
The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 46 is 0.4%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 39,186 scored companies.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 01-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 4623 exists.
The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.
The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 46, not only NACE 4623. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait.