771 new catering companies
registered in the UK, October 2026.

771 were registered in October 2026, from the Companies House register; 9,999 over the last twelve months, and 54,007 catering companies are on the register today. The newest are named below. That is about 27 a day, somewhere in the country. 635 registered in the last 30 days to 12 November 2026, 132 in the last 7 days.

Which companies count: SIC codes starting 5621 and 5629, such as 56210 event catering activities and 56290 other food services.

Monthly figures from the 1 November 2026 register file; the newest companies and the last 30 days update every night. The register total counts live companies only, and a company with codes in two trades sits in both. How the counts are made.

Catering & events · United KingdomOctober 2026
New in October
771
Down 14% on September 2026
Last 12 months
9,999
Nov 2025 – Oct 2026 · 833 a month
Share of all new companies
2.0%
9,999 of the 504,685 companies counted across all 39 trades in the last twelve months. That makes catering the number 19 trade on the register.
Last 30 days to 12 November 2026
635
132 in the last 7 days · From the Companies House daily feed, updated every night.
Source: Companies HouseSnapshot 1 November 2026

Five rows from this list, with an email found

Real companies from the file, picked from the ones we found an email for: most companies this new have none yet. The full file has every column and the whole address. We hide most of each email here, never in the file you buy.

CompanyTownRegisteredTradeEmail
GRACEFULLY MADE EVENTS LTDThornton Heath12 Aug 2026Catering & eventsi•••@gracefullymadeevents.com
AH-SIGH-EE LIMITEDLondon30 Jul 2026Catering & eventsi•••@ahsighee.co.uk
CURRYCULTURE LTDGlasgow19 Aug 2026Catering & eventsi•••@curryculture.co.uk
AMMA EVENTS LTDLittlehampton28 May 2026Catering & eventse•••@ammaevents.co.uk
MERIKIPE WINES LTD.Salford18 Aug 2026Catering & eventsd•••@merikipewines.co.uk
Quick answer

Catering companies in the UK: the short answer.

How many catering companies are there in the UK?

54,007 live companies are on the Companies House register under a SIC code starting 5621 or 5629, as of 1 November 2026. 9,999 were registered in the last twelve months. Sole traders and ordinary partnerships are not on the register, so there are more catering businesses than this.

Registered since 1 November

254 new catering companies so far in November.

Newest first, updated every night.

The 20 most recent of 254 catering companies registered in the UK, 1 to 12 November 2026.
CompanyTownRegistered
SCRAN AND SWALLY LTDKilmarnock12 November 2026
STIRLINGSHIRE HOTEL COMPANY LTDDundee12 November 2026
FIVE CHEFS GLOBAL LTDPortsmouth12 November 2026
MEATBALLMAN LIMITEDDudley12 November 2026
FMH FOODS LTDHounslow12 November 2026
MAC N JACKS LIMITEDGreenford12 November 2026
VIP FOOD LTDLondon12 November 2026
SEABLUE CATERING LIMITEDWokingham12 November 2026
AFRICBITES RESTAURANT LIMITEDSlough12 November 2026
MAULWURF CATERING LIMITEDWoodbridge12 November 2026
DIONYSUS CATERING SERVICES LTDWakefield12 November 2026
FALCON EYE LTDBracknell12 November 2026
THE THREE SCOOPS LTDNorthampton12 November 2026
KAMAZ LIMITEDLondon12 November 2026
KEBAB HUT LIMITEDFolkestone12 November 2026
TLV KOSHER EVENTS LTDEdgware12 November 2026
KRIVA GLOBAL LTDLondon12 November 2026
ESTROARMONICO LIMITEDLondon12 November 2026
VICTORY FOODS INTERNATIONAL WAREHOUSE LTDTilbury12 November 2026
KRUPA LTDCoventry12 November 2026

And 234 more registered since 1 November.

Retail and food · The register

The 50 newest in the 1 November 2026 register file.

Newest first across the towns in the source files. A town links to its full catering list when that page exists, otherwise to the broader town page. Each company number links to its own Companies House record.

The 50 most recent of 9,822 catering companies registered across 959 towns, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026.
Company Town Registered
ADNAT LTD Nottingham 31 October 2026
CHEF FABIO CONSULTANCY LTD Bristol 31 October 2026
FLIPPIN GOOD CATERING LTD Bootle 31 October 2026
LAEL’S CAFE LTD Manchester 31 October 2026
MOREAL LTD London 31 October 2026
ON POINT FOODS LTD High Wycombe 31 October 2026
SICILIAN GOODNESS LTD Sutton 31 October 2026
WAKE COLD BREW LIMITED Wareham 31 October 2026
ARDITO STREET FOOD LTD Bristol 30 October 2026
BRIGHT RISE SERVICES LTD Smethwick 30 October 2026
CHEF PILLAI'S KITCHEN LTD Croydon 30 October 2026
CLUB UNIQUE LTD Bolton 30 October 2026
CORA CATERING LTD London 30 October 2026
CURATED TALES LTD Ilford 30 October 2026
FARMER J (KINGS CROSS) LIMITED London 30 October 2026
FARMER J (RICHMOND) LIMITED London 30 October 2026
GGLOBAL LTD Blackpool 30 October 2026
HOSPITALITY CASUAL HOLDINGS LIMITED Nottingham 30 October 2026
HOSPITALITY PREMIUM HOLDINGS LTD Nottingham 30 October 2026
KAVANAGH WEDDINGS AND EVENTS LTD Maldon 30 October 2026
LEIGH COURT EVENTS LIMITED London 30 October 2026
OLIVE TREE AGENCY LTD Harrow 30 October 2026
PAN ASIAN KITCHEN PVT LTD Oxford 30 October 2026
PUNJABI CAFE LTD Birmingham 30 October 2026
SAFSKITCHEN LTD Willenhall 30 October 2026
SEAUNITE IMPORT & EXPORT TRADING LIMITED London 30 October 2026
SHIV CATERING & EVENTS LTD Birmingham 30 October 2026
SKYPHOENIX FOODS LTD Thetford 30 October 2026
SMR CATERING (WM) LIMITED Dudley 30 October 2026
THE BIRYANI CAFE LTD Brentwood 30 October 2026
THE CATERING FELLAS LIMITED Tadworth 30 October 2026
TRI-ARC RESTAURANT LTD Lancaster 30 October 2026
TURBO BURRITO FUSION LTD Edinburgh 30 October 2026
AL QURAYSH SUPERMARKET LTD Peterborough 29 October 2026
ALHAMRA HALL LTD Birmingham 29 October 2026
ANEMOIA CONSULTING LIMITED London 29 October 2026
BEHIND CREW LTD Ilford 29 October 2026
BRYN'S INNS LTD Hyde 29 October 2026
CRESTLINE EVENTS LTD Sittingbourne 29 October 2026
CRUST ZONE LTD Birmingham 29 October 2026
EAT PATWA LTD Luton 29 October 2026
FR CONGLETON LTD Congleton 29 October 2026
FRYZ WSM LTD Weston-super-Mare 29 October 2026
HM EXCLUSIVE LTD Smethwick 29 October 2026
I QUATTRO T/A NINETEEN AT STAND LIMITED Bolton 29 October 2026
JEPK LIMITED Stanmore 29 October 2026
LONDON CATERING HOSPITALITY LIMITED London 29 October 2026
MAYA'S BRIXTON LIMITED London 29 October 2026
MY BIG K LTD Dinas Powys 29 October 2026
NAMO FOOD LTD Northampton 29 October 2026

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.

Retail and food · Twelve months

July was the busiest month.

Monthly registrations of catering companies across the UK. The busiest month was July on 1,033. The quietest was December on 541.

New catering companies in the UK, by month

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026 · 9,999 in total

Previous months October 2026

Registrations dip over Christmas and pick up in the new year in almost every trade, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier rather than with the one before it.

2015 to 2026

How far back it goes.

Catering & events companies on the register by year of incorporation, and this year measured against the same run of months last year.

New catering companies in the UK, by year

2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to October only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to October 2026 8,794 New catering companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 8,020 Up 10% year on year
2025, the last full year 9,225 Against 1,209 in 2015

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 of UK company formation works through it in full, across all 39 trades.

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026

Where they're starting up.

Every town with a page of its own for new catering companies: 59 of them, covering 54% of the UK total for the trade. The rest are spread thinly across towns too small to count reliably.

New catering company registrations by town. The bar shows the twelve-month figure relative to London, the largest. The mark and the bar carry the retail and food family colour.
Town Oct 2026 Last 12 months Relative twelve-month volume
London 138 1,559
Birmingham 25 294
Manchester 14 288
Glasgow 10 176
Leicester 15 138
Bristol 9 126
Liverpool 7 107
Harrow 10 106
Ilford 9 105
Leeds 6 105
Sheffield 7 105
Nottingham 7 103
Coventry 7 94
Bradford 7 90
Luton 9 77
Edinburgh 10 73
Milton Keynes 4 73
Croydon 5 68
Wembley 4 68
Slough 6 67
Bolton 9 64
Hounslow 4 64
Reading 1 64
Derby 6 59
Southampton 2 59
Newcastle upon Tyne 2 58
Northampton 7 55
Bournemouth 6 54
Cardiff 10 50
Wolverhampton 5 50
Romford 7 47
Dagenham 3 44
Huddersfield 3 43
Preston 2 42
Salford 1 42
Stoke-on-Trent 2 40
Barking 1 39
Norwich 6 39
Swindon 3 39
Colchester 2 38
Belfast 1 37
Southall 4 37
Walsall 1 37
Doncaster 2 36
Middlesbrough 5 36
Oldham 0 36
Peterborough 3 36
Blackpool 1 34
Hayes 3 34
Newport 2 34
Watford 2 34
Hull 2 33
Rotherham 3 33
Brighton 2 32
Stockport 2 32
Cambridge 2 30
Plymouth 3 29
Enfield 1 28
Blackburn 1 26
United Kingdom, all towns 771 9,999

Towns come from the post town on the registered office address, except where that office is a formation agent: those companies are counted in the town established from their directors' other companies, or not counted at all. A town needs at least 30 new catering companies in twelve months before it gets a page, so the rows above do not add up to the national total. How towns are worked out.

The whole retail and food family · All 39 trades nationally · Browse every town

Once a month, every new catering company registered in the UK. The new month's count and the names behind it, by email, with a link to that month's list and its price. Nothing to buy unless you want the list, and one click to stop.