Retail sale of footwear

NACE 47721

Current registrations1,034

Bankruptcies (5y)30

Historical share2.90%

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 90% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 47 is 0.8%, against 0.5% nationally, over 57,465 scored companies.

Key figures for NACE division 47

fiscal year 2025 · median over 32,796 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

32,796

Regional split

by region · 764 of 1,034 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 467 · 61.1%

Wallonia 167 · 21.9%

Brussels 127 · 16.6%

Unknown 3 · 0.4%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
09-09-2026	Youssif, Bashar BE 0675.344.484
26-06-2026	LUYCKX - CHAUSSURES BE 0413.169.817
12-06-2026	Parmentier, Michèle BE 0554.552.760
03-06-2026	Maurissen, Hilde BE 0845.987.775
28-05-2026	RASSON - DE BRAKELEER BE 0872.395.234
24-04-2026	Lemofouet Zemmo, Frank BE 0777.993.745
03-04-2026	JPN RETAIL BE 0561.910.508
10-03-2026	AL & CE BE 0798.740.857

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 115

East Flanders OVL 101

Antwerp ANT 124

Flemish Brabant VLB 56

Limburg LIM 71

Brussels BRU 127

Hainaut HAI 58

Walloon Brabant WBR 27

Namur NAM 20

Liège LIE 52

Luxembourg LUX 10

fewer moremax 127

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 47721 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 47721 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.