The 50 newest companies registered in Bedford.
Straight from the Companies House register, newest first, across all 39 trades. Every company number links to its own record there, and every trade links to the full list for Bedford.
Names, numbers and incorporation dates are free to reuse under the Open Government Licence. What the register does not carry is a way to contact any of them. That is the part we sell.
Property investment & letting leads Bedford.
Every trade counted in Bedford over the last twelve months, busiest first. Property investment & letting took 229 of the 1,780, and the digital and professional family took 30% between them. 21 trades have enough volume here for a page of their own.
- Building and trades
- Digital and professional
- Retail and food
- Transport and logistics
- People and care
- Property
| Trade | Aug 2026 | Last 12 months | Relative twelve-month volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property. Property investment & letting | 15 | 229 | |
| Building and trades. Construction | 11 | 189 | |
| Digital and professional. Management consultancy | 8 | 139 | |
| Retail and food. Online retail | 7 | 101 | |
| People and care. Health practitioners | 5 | 100 | |
| Transport and logistics. Freight & couriers | 9 | 91 | |
| Digital and professional. Web & software development | 6 | 79 | |
| Digital and professional. IT consultancy | 2 | 59 | |
| Property. Property management | 1 | 54 | |
| Retail and food. Takeaways | 4 | 52 | |
| Transport and logistics. Motor vehicle repair | 2 | 51 | |
| Digital and professional. Education & training | 1 | 49 | |
| People and care. Cleaning services | 0 | 48 | |
| Digital and professional. Business support services | 3 | 47 | |
| Retail and food. Hairdressing & beauty | 1 | 47 | |
| Digital and professional. Advertising & design | 5 | 42 | |
| Transport and logistics. Used car dealers | 4 | 38 | |
| Digital and professional. Architecture & engineering | 4 | 37 | |
| Retail and food. Restaurants & cafes | 4 | 37 | |
| Digital and professional. IT support | 1 | 35 | |
| Retail and food. Convenience stores | 1 | 33 | |
| Retail and food. Catering & events | 2 | 28 | |
| Building and trades. Plumbers & HVAC | 0 | 27 | |
| Building and trades. Electricians | 0 | 24 | |
| People and care. Care services | 2 | 22 | |
| Building and trades. Landscaping | 0 | 20 | |
| Digital and professional. Recruitment | 2 | 19 | |
| Digital and professional. Estate agents | 2 | 15 | |
| Retail and food. Pubs & bars | 1 | 13 | |
| Digital and professional. Accounting | 2 | 11 | |
| Retail and food. Wholesale | 0 | 11 | |
| Digital and professional. Photography | 1 | 8 | |
| Transport and logistics. Removals | 0 | 7 | |
| People and care. Security services | 0 | 6 | |
| People and care. Childcare | 0 | 5 | |
| People and care. Fitness | 2 | 3 | |
| Digital and professional. Legal services | 0 | 2 | |
| Transport and logistics. Taxi & private hire | 0 | 2 | |
| Bedford, all trades | 108 | 1,780 |
A trade needs at least 30 new companies in Bedford over twelve months before it gets a page of its own, so the 17 trades below that line are listed without a link. A company carrying more than one SIC code can appear in more than one trade, so the rows add up to more than the number of companies behind them.
March was the busiest month.
New companies registered to a Bedford address each month, across all 39 trades. The busiest month was March on 177. The quietest was August on 108.
New companies in Bedford, by month
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 1,780 in total
Registrations dip over Christmas and pick up in the new year almost everywhere, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier rather than with the one before it.
How far back Bedford goes.
Companies registered to a Bedford address by year of incorporation, across all 39 trades, and this year measured against the same run of months last year.
New companies in Bedford, by year
2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to August only
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. The long view works through it in full.
How Bedford compares.
New companies over the last twelve months in the towns closest to Bedford on volume. Bedford is number 46 of the 1,082 towns counted here.
New Bedford companies with a verified contact address, any trade. £0.30 a record, from £15.
Fewer than ten of the companies that registered a Bedford address in August 2026 have cleared verification so far, too few to price on their own. Ask, and the quote covers Bedford and the towns around it, or the whole postcode area.
One file, every trade, filtered to Bedford by postcode. Closed months only, so the count you see is the count you get. £0.30 a record, £15 minimum. Selling into one trade instead? The UK-wide list for each trade.
Exact record count, the price and a sample row by email, usually the same working day. Asking is not ordering.
Not ready to buy? The names alone, without contacts, are on the public register and we give them away: the newest 50 in Bedford are on this page (137 registered in the 30 days to 25 September 2026), and every trade's last 30 days is a free CSV. Pick the trade.