Wholesale trade

NACE 46820

Current registrations732

Bankruptcies (5y)12

Historical share1.64%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 67% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 46 is 0.6%, against 0.5% nationally, over 39,710 scored companies.

Key figures for NACE division 46

fiscal year 2025 · median over 24,192 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

43.8%

lower than 51% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€187k

higher than 61% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€15k

higher than 49% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

24,192

Regional split

by region · 687 of 732 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 362 · 52.7%

Wallonia 222 · 32.3%

Brussels 55 · 8.0%

Unknown 48 · 7.0%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
19-03-2026	BHM Steel BE 0600.811.664
12-03-2026	AFFINOR BE 0899.125.662
19-11-2025	Huysmans Metalen BE 0448.553.932
17-10-2025	NOVA E.T BE 0761.997.653
15-10-2025	STAALCO BE 0864.344.234
24-06-2025	BECOSTEEL BE 0782.523.942
17-06-2025	Rampelberg-Somers BE 0411.506.266
22-01-2025	RAPIDO TRADE BE 0834.536.827

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 62

East Flanders OVL 76

Antwerp ANT 138

Flemish Brabant VLB 47

Limburg LIM 39

Brussels BRU 55

Hainaut HAI 55

Walloon Brabant WBR 16

Namur NAM 37

Liège LIE 94

Luxembourg LUX 20

fewer moremax 138

How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 46820 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

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 46820 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.