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Retail sale of other cultural and recreation goods

NACE 47690
Current registrations1,289
Starters, 12 months · division 47
10,534
Employment (FTE) · division 47
239,656
Median age · division 47
9.4 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)
12
Historical share
0.93%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 53% 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 · 689 of 1,289 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 374 · 54.3%
Brussels 214 · 31.1%
Wallonia 93 · 13.5%
Unknown 8 · 1.2%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
21-09-2026 THE VAULT ART GALLERY
BE 0805.012.601
08-09-2026 ABSOLUTE PROPERTY GALLERY
BE 0795.548.963
03-09-2026 DANIELS MUSICAL SOUND
BE 0428.369.123
24-08-2026 12 Senses
BE 0833.073.117
19-08-2026 Sole trader
BE 0500.934.625
16-07-2026 KP CONCEPT
BE 1021.313.097
10-12-2025 Vinyl Junkies
BE 0734.719.471
21-11-2025 KAREL FONTEYNE FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
BE 0741.985.068

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 214

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 47690 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 47690 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.