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 2026 · median over 416 filed annual accountsRegional split
by region · 156 of 269 enterprises with a registered office on fileRecent bankruptcies in this sector
8| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 02-09-2026 | 5 M.G CORPORATE
BE 0748.849.007 |
| 31-07-2026 | VanDaels
BE 0771.919.763 |
| 06-07-2026 | G.A.B. LUXURY
BE 0834.316.103 |
| 12-06-2026 | De Decker, Sofie
BE 0867.272.545 |
| 10-09-2025 | KIARE
BE 0726.809.320 |
| 03-06-2025 | CARNAVALISSIMO
BE 0689.619.718 |
| 06-03-2025 | WE & CO
BE 0754.667.423 |
| 30-09-2024 | Giaffreda, Céline
BE 0668.295.752 |
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 47511 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 47511 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.