Retail trade

NACE 47522

Current registrations236

Largest regionFlanders 56%

Key figures for NACE division 47

fiscal year 2025 · median over 32,985 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

35.5%

lower than 80% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€94k

lower than 61% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€11k

lower than 67% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

32,985

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

5.08%

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 99% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 47 is 0.8%, against 0.5% nationally, over 57,468 scored companies. Comparison: as of 25-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 188 of 236 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 106 · 56.4%

Wallonia 63 · 33.5%

Brussels 19 · 10.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
30-07-2026	UNI-BAT BE 0666.737.121
06-07-2026	LA PERLE DE L'ORIENT BE 0552.754.795
26-01-2026	HEKBOS BE 0746.515.958
02-05-2025	VERANDAPRO BE 0830.220.525
10-03-2025	BELABRIS BE 0765.564.382
08-11-2024	Tactum BE 0696.844.436
17-06-2024	Sole trader BE 0741.558.565 · Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont
27-10-2023	BATI-ECO-EUROP BE 0820.576.547

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 15

East Flanders OVL 25

Antwerp ANT 39

Flemish Brabant VLB 11

Limburg LIM 16

Brussels BRU 19

Hainaut HAI 20

Walloon Brabant WBR 11

Namur NAM 12

Liège LIE 17

Luxembourg LUX 3

fewer moremax 39

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies € 417m awarded 9,116 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Erkenning en subsidiëring als maatwerkafdeling
Federal transfers 50m amount as published 33 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelagen OCMW's recht op maatschappelijke integratie
Wallonia-Brussels Federation € 38m paid 113 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux organisations de jeunesse (décret du 20 juin 1980 et du 26 mars 2009)
EU budget € 77m 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 47522 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 47522 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.