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Retail trade

NACE 47522
Enterprises240
Bankruptcies (5y)13
Failure rate5.42%

Nationally 1.50% of enterprises go bankrupt within five years; this failure rate is higher than that of 99% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 47 is 0.9%, against 0.5% nationally, over 50,787 scored companies.

Key figures for NACE division 47

fiscal year 2025 · median over 31,775 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
35.9%
lower than 80% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€97k
lower than 61% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€11k
lower than 67% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
31,775

Regional split

by region · 191 of 240 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 108 · 56.5%
Wallonia 64 · 33.5%
Brussels 19 · 9.9%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
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 Eekhout, Catherine
BE 0741.558.565
28-11-2023 ORIDO
BE 0730.820.368

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 40
How 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 47522 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 47, not NACE 47522 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.