Cafés and bars

NACE 56301

Current registrations13,988

Largest regionFlanders 57%

Key figures for NACE division 56

fiscal year 2025 · median over 17,940 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

30.2%

lower than 92% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€37k

lower than 96% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€6k

lower than 85% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

17,940

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

828

Historical share

5.92%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than every NACE division. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 56 is 2.3%, against 0.5% nationally, over 34,049 scored companies. Comparison: as of 25-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 9,318 of 13,988 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 5,334 · 57.2%

Wallonia 2,325 · 25.0%

Brussels 1,658 · 17.8%

Unknown 1 · 0.0%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
25-09-2026	Sole trader BE 0519.981.663 · Brugge
25-09-2026	NABAM BE 0701.845.874
23-09-2026	Sole trader BE 0507.553.488 · Antwerpen
23-09-2026	ANTONELLI BE 0448.614.211
23-09-2026	Le Drakkar Rouge BE 0699.935.667
22-09-2026	DELIR BE 0724.944.940
22-09-2026	MARWAZAZ BE 0737.657.185
21-09-2026	The Drifter BE 0799.589.707

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 977

East Flanders OVL 1,147

Antwerp ANT 1,776

Flemish Brabant VLB 842

Limburg LIM 592

Brussels BRU 1,658

Hainaut HAI 753

Walloon Brabant WBR 183

Namur NAM 318

Liège LIE 915

Luxembourg LUX 156

fewer moremax 1,776

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 56301 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 56, not NACE 56301 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.