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Retail sale of hardware, building materials, paint and glass (general range)

NACE 47521
Current registrations1,715
Bankruptcies (5y)30
Historical share1.75%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 68% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 47 is 0.8%, against 0.5% nationally, over 57,465 scored companies. Comparison: as of 24-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 47

fiscal year 2025 · median over 32,796 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
35.5%
lower than 80% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€94k
lower than 61% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€11k
lower than 67% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
32,796

Regional split

by region · 1,500 of 1,715 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 799 · 53.3%
Wallonia 533 · 35.5%
Brussels 167 · 11.1%
Unknown 1 · 0.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
10-07-2026 BELGIAN AUDIO-VISUAL-SERVICES
BE 0423.679.964
07-05-2026 LEBEGGE-DROSSART EN ZONEN
BE 0414.014.509
04-05-2026 NECO ENERGIE
BE 0828.169.271
25-03-2026 TATAR BOUWMARKT
BE 0477.864.956
11-03-2026 EIGHT INVESTMENT COMPANY
BE 0695.529.194
06-03-2026 Sole trader
BE 0752.439.490 · Grâce-Hollogne
16-02-2026 BELLE & MOI
BE 0439.688.726
09-02-2026 CERAMICO
BE 0427.520.669

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 239
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 47521 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 47521 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.