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Retail trade

NACE 47786
Enterprises865
Bankruptcies (5y)9
Failure rate1.04%

Nationally 1.50% of enterprises go bankrupt within five years; this failure rate is higher than that of 52% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 47 is 0.9%, against 0.5% nationally, over 50,865 scored companies.

Key figures for NACE division 47

fiscal year 2025 · median over 32,336 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
35.7%
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
32,336

Regional split

by region · 398 of 865 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 155 · 38.9%
Wallonia 122 · 30.7%
Brussels 120 · 30.2%
Unknown 1 · 0.3%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
10-04-2026 TCFN
BE 0568.562.728
03-04-2026 DOLPHIN 77
BE 0838.817.495
29-07-2025 GOBESE
BE 0537.201.440
16-05-2025 VICTORIA STATION
BE 0818.464.521
06-12-2024 IMMO TECHNO
BE 0869.995.572
21-08-2024 WoodYou
BE 0757.609.095
27-05-2024 Cube Menswear
BE 0816.858.972
14-02-2024 Ferial Touaibia
BE 0692.598.905

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 120
How these figures are counted

Enterprises are counted by their primary NACE; establishment units are not counted. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2008 nomenclature, the one in which code 47786 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 47786 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.