Wholesale trade
Nationally 1.50% of enterprises go bankrupt within five years; this failure rate is higher than that of 69% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 46 is 0.6%, against 0.5% nationally, over 35,464 scored companies.
Key figures for NACE division 46
fiscal year 2026 · median over 263 filed annual accountsRegional split
by region · 693 of 739 enterprises with a registered office on fileRecent bankruptcies in this sector
8| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 06-05-2026 | PERIMMO TECHNICS
BE 0444.382.437 |
| 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 |
Geographic distribution
by province · based on the establishment addressHow 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 46820 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 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.