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Retail trade

NACE 47527
Enterprises216
Bankruptcies (5y)8
Failure rate3.70%

Nationally 1.50% of enterprises go bankrupt within five years; this failure rate is higher than that of 95% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 47 is 0.9%, against 0.5% nationally, over 50,849 scored companies.

Key figures for NACE division 47

fiscal year 2025 · median over 32,080 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
35.8%
lower than 80% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€96k
lower than 61% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€11k
lower than 67% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
32,080

Regional split

by region · 180 of 216 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 123 · 68.3%
Wallonia 39 · 21.7%
Brussels 18 · 10.0%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
22-05-2026 AQUEA
BE 0835.383.794
13-03-2026 SANI.CV.BE
BE 0505.806.993
20-10-2025 Aquadesign Sorex Group
BE 0475.691.067
31-12-2024 Syndic New Gestion
BE 0738.904.626
23-10-2024 SANI CONSTRUCT GROUP
BE 0841.592.190
16-12-2022 Brogniet, Eric
BE 0539.631.091
18-10-2022 DESIGN & IMMO
BE 0508.899.612
31-01-2022 EURINTEX
BE 0426.338.457

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 32
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 47527 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 47527 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.