Who just set up on your patch · Updated 12 November 2026

Newly registered companies,
by trade and town.

Every new company on the Companies House register, counted and named by trade and by town, refreshed nightly. And for the ones you want to reach, the lists: 298,620 companies registered March to November 2026, 3p a company, any month from £15.

66,457 new companies registered in the UK in October 2026
34,373 new companies in the 39 trades counted here in the last 30 days to 12 November 2026, 7,884 in the last 7 days

Monthly figures from the 1 November 2026 register file; the newest companies and the last 30 days update every night. How the counts are made.

New UK companiesOctober 2026
TradeOct12 months
Property investment & letting
4,948 60,942
Construction
4,679 58,096
Online retail
4,346 43,154
Management consultancy
2,747 33,040
Web & software development
2,445 22,711
Takeaways
1,716 19,256
Town12 months
London
68,194
Birmingham
13,409
Manchester
12,614
Glasgow
7,820
Leicester
5,998
Liverpool
5,706
Top six tradesNov 2025 – Oct 2026
Property investment & letting60,942
Construction58,096
Online retail43,154
Management consultancy33,040
Web & software development22,711
Takeaways19,256
39 trades · 4,429 pages 504,685 in the last 12 months
Registered on 12 November

The newest companies on the UK register

Updated every night, newest first. Click a name for its Companies House record.

The 20 newest companies in the 39 trades we count, from the Companies House register, registered 12 November 2026.
CompanyTradeTownRegistered
PINGO AIR LTDConstructionLondon12 November 2026
KHUSHAAN PROPERTIES LIMITEDProperty investment & lettingSmethwick12 November 2026
IN THE PAINT LTDAdvertising & designMaidenhead12 November 2026
RAINSTREAM TECHNOLOGIES LTDIT supportSlough12 November 2026
MSM AC AND REFRIGERATION LIMITEDConstructionCorby12 November 2026
HOUSE OF TERA LTDOnline retailReading12 November 2026
FLORENCE TECH LTDOnline retailLondon12 November 2026
JAMMU CONSTRUCTION ESSEX LTDConstructionIlford12 November 2026
WARD MOTOR WORKS LEEDS LIMITEDMotor vehicle repairLeeds12 November 2026
APEXSPHERE TECH LTDWeb & software developmentWednesbury12 November 2026
OBA EXCLUSIVE LIMITEDHairdressing & beautyLondon12 November 2026
KSNT LTDIT supportChigwell12 November 2026
THADDEUS & JAYNE LIMITEDManagement consultancyCheltenham12 November 2026
J A CLEANING SOLUTIONS LTDCleaning servicesDudley12 November 2026
BBM CARE & LIVING LTDHealth practitionersBromsgrove12 November 2026
BATTEN & PARTNERS LTDManagement consultancyStroud12 November 2026
HEGRA PROJECTS LTDConstructionLondon12 November 2026
BDRAGUT LTDFreight & couriersSmethwick12 November 2026
E1LEVENLABS LIMITEDOnline retailMaldon12 November 2026
JOSEPH WAHWERIT LTDArchitecture & engineeringCleethorpes12 November 2026
Find your patch

Search a trade, a town, or both.

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026

Six families, 39 trades.

Companies House publishes SIC codes, not trades. The 39 groups here are ours, each a set of SIC codes a small business would recognise as its trade, gathered into six families. Property investment & letting is the largest single trade on the register, at 60,942 new companies over the last twelve months, 12% of everything counted here.

All 39 trades in one table, with the October count and the twelve-month running total for each.

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026

The busiest towns.

New companies registered over the last twelve months, by the post town on the registered office address, or, where that office is a formation agent, by the town the company's directors run their other companies from.

The outlier 68,194 London

London is counted as a single post town, so it is not really in the same contest as the rest of the list. It took 5.1 times as many new companies last year as Birmingham, more than the next eight towns put together. Leaving it in the ranking below would squash every other bar to a stub, so it sits up here on its own.

13,409 Birmingham, the next town down, reaches the white mark 68,194 London, the whole bar

Ranked 2 to 9, without London

Bars scaled to Birmingham at 13,409, not to London

02 Birmingham 13,409
03 Manchester 12,614
04 Glasgow 7,820
05 Leicester 5,998
06 Liverpool 5,706
07 Leeds 5,628
08 Bristol 5,596
09 Nottingham 5,473

That is the top 9 of 1,076 towns, each of which has a page of its own with all 39 trades counted separately on it. See every town ranked, with a trade count for each.

The long view

Is the country really starting more businesses?

Partly. The register goes back over a century, and on it every one of these 39 trades looks like it is growing, which is the first sign that something other than growth is going on.

New companies in these 39 trades, so far this year

January to October 2026, against the same months of 2025

January to October 2026 436,687 New companies so far this year, across all 39 trades
Same months, 2025 392,450 Up 11% year on year
2025, the last full year 460,448 Against 100,114 in 2015, as the register shows it today

Older years undercount. The register only holds companies that still exist. Anything formed in an earlier year and since dissolved has dropped off it, so the further back the chart goes the more it undercounts. That alone makes every trade look like it is growing. Some of the rise here is real growth and some of it is simply that recent companies have had less time to close. On the yearly series 39 of the 39 trades show 2025 above 2015, which twenty-four separate industries do not do together. The long view takes it apart properly.

Quick answers

How many companies are registered in the UK each week?

About 14,700 in the week of 2 to 8 November 2026, counting every type of company. That is about 2,800 on a weekday and 750 over the weekend. October 2026 averaged about 15,000 a week, 66,457 in the month.

Sources: Companies House advanced search, read 10 November 2026; October from the Companies House register file of 1 November 2026.

How soon after registering does a company appear here?

Usually the next morning, for a company in one of our 39 trades. More than 9 in 10 of those registered 2 to 8 November 2026 reached us the same day, and new names go on the town and trade pages overnight. The counts on the home and town pages move every hour during the day.

Source: our own records: 9,897 of 10,574 companies in our 39 trades registered 2 to 8 November 2026 reached us the same day.

Method

Where every number comes from.

One free public file: the Companies House bulk company data snapshot of 1 November 2026. Nothing on this site is modelled or estimated: every figure is a count of rows in it, and the awkward parts are written down rather than smoothed over.

Companies read 5,711,780 Every row of the 1 November 2026 bulk snapshot
Trades built from SIC codes 39 Grouped into six families for the colour on every chart
Agent postcodes excluded 488 Virtual offices and formation agents, holding 805,211 companies between them
Towns with a page 1,076 Of 7,774 post towns that clear the minimum

The three things worth knowing before you quote any of it: the register only holds companies that still exist, so older years undercount; a company can carry four SIC codes and so land in more than one trade; and a registered office is very often a formation agent's mailbox rather than anywhere the company trades. The method in full, with the figures, and how to find newly registered companies yourself.