Retail trade

NACE 4792

Current registrations479

Starters, 12 months · division 4710,534

Employment (FTE) · division 47239,656

Median age · division 479.4 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)

Historical share

0.00%

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 90% 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 · 94 of 479 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 55 · 58.5%

Wallonia 23 · 24.5%

Brussels 16 · 17.0%

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 11

East Flanders OVL 14

Antwerp ANT 17

Flemish Brabant VLB 11

Limburg LIM 2

Brussels BRU 16

Hainaut HAI 8

Walloon Brabant WBR 5

Namur NAM 2

Liège LIE 8

Luxembourg LUX 0

fewer moremax 17

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 4792 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 4792 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.