Retail sale of chocolate and confectionery

NACE 47242

Current registrations899

Starters, 12 months · division 4710,534

Employment (FTE) · division 47239,656

Median age · division 479.4 years

In NACE division 47, 9.0 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 66% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 47

fiscal year 2025 · median over 33,075 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

35.5%

lower than 80% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€93,645

lower than 61% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€10,578

lower than 67% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

33,075

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

2.00%

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 75% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 47 is 0.8%, against 0.5% nationally, over 57,445 scored companies. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 497 of 899 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 288 · 57.9%

Wallonia 130 · 26.2%

Brussels 79 · 15.9%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
29-07-2026	BioNaomi BE 0542.484.376
26-06-2026	CAREMENT CHOCOLAT BE 1021.098.313
26-05-2026	M&C Stories BE 0801.682.333
27-03-2026	Sole trader BE 0656.729.491 · Sint-Katelijne-Waver
09-02-2026	Kasmi Sweets BE 1009.515.721
09-02-2026	Maison de Marie BE 1011.912.611
21-01-2026	Keeble en Keeble BE 0766.821.622
24-11-2025	SWEETZ BE 1006.626.606

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 79

East Flanders OVL 60

Antwerp ANT 74

Flemish Brabant VLB 42

Limburg LIM 33

Brussels BRU 79

Hainaut HAI 37

Walloon Brabant WBR 22

Namur NAM 17

Liège LIE 42

Luxembourg LUX 12

fewer moremax 79

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €417.2m awarded 9,111 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Erkenning en subsidiëring als maatwerkafdeling
Federal transfers 49.9m amount as published 33 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelagen OCMW's recht op maatschappelijke integratie
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €37.6m paid 113 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux organisations de jeunesse (décret du 20 juin 1980 et du 26 mars 2009)
EU budget €76.7m attributed share 25 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Information and communication technology
EU research €8.5m eu contribution 13 recipients · 2008 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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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 47242 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 47242 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.