Retail trade

NACE 47230

Current registrations464

Bankruptcies (5y)20

Historical share4.31%

Nationally, 1.40% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 98% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 47 is 0.8%, against 0.5% nationally, over 57,450 scored companies.

Key figures for NACE division 47

fiscal year 2025 · median over 32,731 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

35.6%

lower than 80% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€95k

lower than 61% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€11k

lower than 67% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

32,731

Regional split

by region · 361 of 464 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 226 · 62.6%

Brussels 69 · 19.1%

Wallonia 66 · 18.3%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
16-09-2026	FLTR BE 0712.686.516
17-07-2026	BELMOSCENT BE 0765.741.655
08-06-2026	PRO MARÉE BE 0713.863.184
03-06-2026	WESTHINDER BE 0417.115.539
03-06-2026	Trading & Multiservice Europe BE 0712.931.192
02-06-2026	ANTARTIQUE BE 0840.505.592
22-04-2026	WOOD GRILL BE 0787.815.687
04-02-2026	QueenFish BE 0801.334.816

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 89

East Flanders OVL 37

Antwerp ANT 66

Flemish Brabant VLB 24

Limburg LIM 10

Brussels BRU 69

Hainaut HAI 18

Walloon Brabant WBR 10

Namur NAM 9

Liège LIE 27

Luxembourg LUX 2

fewer moremax 89

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 47230 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 47, not NACE 47230 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.