How to do it
- Open Discover > Bankruptcies in the menu. You see the number for the last 7 days, the map by province and the latest bankruptcies.
- Choose a region or province under "Where" and a sector under "Sector". Click a province on the map for details by municipality.
- In the charts, click a month, year or week to see the companies of that period.
- Click "Check your customers for free" and paste up to 25 VAT numbers or names. You instantly see who is bankrupt, in reorganisation, in liquidation or closed.
- Want to keep following them? Click "Follow these" and get an email on every change. That is part of Nummo Pro.
What is on the page, from top to bottom?
- The header: bankruptcies in the last 7 days, the last day the CBE reported, the last 30 days against the 30 before, and how many companies are bankrupt now according to the CBE.
- The map: the last 30 days by province. On a province page, the municipalities.
- The filter bar: tabs New businesses, Bankruptcies, Reorganisations and Net, with Where and Sector.
- By month: up to 24 months. Lighter are Statbel's official monthly figures, darker what we counted ourselves in the CBE.
- By year: since 2017, with the highest and lowest year. Click a year for its months.
- By week and which sectors: the last 13 weeks and the sectors with the most bankruptcies in 30 days.
- Latest bankruptcies: the companies themselves, with date, place and sector.
- The Monday email, all region and sector pages and questions about the figures.
Track bankruptcies: how do we count?
For comparison, Statbel also publishes monthly bankruptcy figures.
Every morning we compare the new CBE data with the day before. A company that gets the legal situation bankruptcy counts on the day the CBE showed it. The ruling usually comes a few days earlier. A company counts once per bankruptcy: the closure or another change within the bankruptcy does not count again, and what happens afterwards (for example a revoked bankruptcy) does not remove it from the count. The list behind each number shows exactly those companies. For months before our own count we show Statbel, which counts on the date of the ruling.
Judicial reorganisations are counted the same way, in their own tab.
The free check
Up to 25 companies at once, one per line, by VAT number or name. A number gives a sure result, a name the best match ("found by name"). What you paste stays in your own browser: we store nothing. "Follow these" (Pro) creates a list with daily alerts on bankruptcy, closure, loss, negative equity or late filing.
Track bankruptcies: the barometer every Monday
At the bottom of the page, subscribe to the Monday email for all of Belgium, a region or a province. You get the week's number, the sectors and the latest bankruptcies. You confirm through a link and unsubscribe with one click.
Why do some bankruptcies have no name?
Sole traders are natural persons. We do not show their name, only the municipality.
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