Retail trade
Nationally 1.50% of enterprises go bankrupt within five years; this failure rate is higher than that of 98% 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 accountsRegional split
by region · 364 of 475 enterprises with a registered office on fileRecent bankruptcies in this sector
8| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 17-07-2026 | BELMOSCENT
BE 0765.741.655 |
| 08-06-2026 | PRO MARÉE
BE 0713.863.184 |
| 03-06-2026 | WESTHINDER
BE 0417.115.539 |
| 03-06-2026 | Trading & Multiservice Europe
BE 0712.931.192 |
| 02-06-2026 | ANTARTIQUE
BE 0840.505.592 |
| 22-04-2026 | WOOD GRILL
BE 0787.815.687 |
| 04-02-2026 | QueenFish
BE 0801.334.816 |
| 19-01-2026 | Le Maritime
BE 0541.882.877 |
Geographic distribution
by province · based on the establishment addressHow 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 47230 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 47230 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.