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Retail sale of footwear

NACE 47721
Enterprises1,070
Bankruptcies (5y)30
Failure rate2.80%

Nationally 1.50% of enterprises go bankrupt within five years; this failure rate is higher than that of 89% 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 31738 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 · 785 of 1,070 enterprises with a registered office on file
Vlaanderen 482 · 61.4%
Wallonië 170 · 21.7%
Brussel 130 · 16.6%
Unknown 3 · 0.4%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
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
09-03-2026 VIVOLUTION
BE 1000.181.252

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 131
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 47721 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 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.