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Wholesale trade

NACE 46497
Enterprises228
Bankruptcies (5y)3
Failure rate1.32%

Nationally 1.50% of enterprises go bankrupt within five years; this failure rate is higher than that of 61% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 46 is 0.6%, against 0.5% nationally, over 35,501 scored companies.

Key figures for NACE division 46

fiscal year 2025 · median over 23,676 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
44.0%
lower than 52% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€190k
higher than 62% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€15k
higher than 51% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
23,676

Regional split

by region · 195 of 228 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 98 · 50.3%
Wallonia 64 · 32.8%
Brussels 20 · 10.3%
Unknown 13 · 6.7%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

3
Date Company
14-08-2025 Amuuso
BE 0458.204.937
17-08-2023 LIONET
BE 0830.399.182
05-12-2022 Cornelis, Rony
BE 0720.356.246

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 41
How these figures are counted

Enterprises are counted by their primary NACE; establishment units are not counted. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 46497 exists.

Bankruptcies and the failure rate are attributed by each company's current primary NACE, not the NACE at the time of bankruptcy (which the gazette does not record).

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 46, not NACE 46497 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Medians over NBB annual accounts, all schema types combined.