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Retail trade

NACE 47712
Enterprises462
Bankruptcies (5y)14
Failure rate3.03%

Nationally 1.50% of enterprises go bankrupt within five years; this failure rate is higher than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 47 is 0.9%, against 0.5% nationally, over 50,723 scored companies.

Key figures for NACE division 47

fiscal year 2025 · median over 31,738 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
31,738

Regional split

by region · 351 of 462 enterprises with a registered office on file
Vlaanderen 190 · 54.1%
Wallonië 86 · 24.5%
Brussel 75 · 21.4%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
08-07-2026 INVESTSHOP MAG
BE 0553.690.450
07-04-2026 LAMBRECHT
BE 0479.721.022
04-02-2026 Suitify
BE 0751.773.358
14-01-2026 SL FASHION
BE 0674.458.420
21-11-2025 FITTZ RETAIL
BE 0806.272.314
16-10-2025 AKBV
BE 1008.918.180
13-06-2025 FUNK YOU
BE 0869.470.782
23-05-2025 LECOQ MALMEDY
BE 0422.272.870

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 75
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 47712 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 47712 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.