836 new catering companies
registered in the UK, August 2026.

10,327 over the last twelve months, and 54,306 catering companies on the register today. The newest 50 are named below. That is about 28 a day, somewhere in the country. 832 registered in the last 30 days to 25 September 2026, 195 this week (provisional).

Snapshot 1 September 2026, monthly, not live. 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 KingdomAugust 2026
New in August
836
Down 21% on July 2026
Last 12 months
10,327
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 861 a month
Share of all new companies
2.0%
10,327 of the 515,810 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 25 September 2026, provisional
832
195 in the last 7 days · Provisional: from the Companies House API feed, limited companies only, before the monthly register file.
Source: Companies HouseSnapshot 1 September 2026
Retail and food · The register

The 50 newest catering companies registered in the UK.

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 10,128 catering companies registered across 971 towns, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026.
Company Town Registered
BLUE LION CHEFS LTD London 31 August 2026
CRESCENTS PRODUCTIONS LTD London 31 August 2026
DS KITCHEN SHEFF 2 LTD Sheffield 31 August 2026
ETIKIT LTD Perth 31 August 2026
FIREBARZ314 LTD London 31 August 2026
GEMMA & LUCY LTD Lightwater 31 August 2026
IDRESS COLLECTION LTD Bradford 31 August 2026
IT MUST BE LOVE LIMITED Spilsby 31 August 2026
JAMES MITCHELL PRIVATE DINING LIMITED Stratford-upon-Avon 31 August 2026
LENNOX EVENTS LTD Hull 31 August 2026
LONDEX TRADE LTD London 31 August 2026
MAYA’S CUISINE LIMITED London 31 August 2026
NOURISH NEST THRIVE LTD London 31 August 2026
PROPER CATERING LTD Bristol 31 August 2026
THE WAYS HOLDING LTD Droitwich 31 August 2026
ZESTY & SWEET LTD Ellesmere Port 31 August 2026
FIERCE MILD CATERING LTD Buckhurst Hill 30 August 2026
HUZAKI LTD Northampton 30 August 2026
HYDE HOSPITALITY LIMITED Wetherby 30 August 2026
KORENSA COLLECTIVE LIMITED Skipton 30 August 2026
ABRF HOLDINGS LTD Glasgow 29 August 2026
AJOO.COO LTD Weymouth 29 August 2026
ANANTA HOSPITALITY VENTURES LTD Wembley 29 August 2026
BADBOY BENNY’S GRILLZ LTD Leeds 29 August 2026
FAMILY 2 DINNER LTD Sidcup 29 August 2026
SIZZLING BRAND & CO. LTD Sheffield 29 August 2026
STONE CROSS CRAFT BUTCHERS LTD Pevensey 29 August 2026
ZOTI LTD Hornchurch 29 August 2026
AFNAAN LTD London 28 August 2026
ANABIYA FOOD LTD Hull 28 August 2026
ANTONIOMARIA LTD Reading 28 August 2026
BEST ONE TD LTD Burnley 28 August 2026
BOOM BOX CATERING LTD London 28 August 2026
BOONOONOONOOS CATERING LTD Derby 28 August 2026
BPTV LTD Ascot 28 August 2026
BRAAI NIGHTS LTD Blackburn 28 August 2026
BTS CATERING LTD Gosport 28 August 2026
CAFE COCOBIT LIMITED Liverpool 28 August 2026
CAMELOT WARGAMING LTD Rochford 28 August 2026
CSD TRADING LTD Northampton 28 August 2026
EAZYPLUS LIMITED Stockton-on-Tees 28 August 2026
EVIL'S POLISH TASTY BITES LTD Eastbourne 28 August 2026
FOOD HYPE LTD Enfield 28 August 2026
FOOD KITCHENS GROUP LTD Manchester 28 August 2026
GIVE US THIS DAY LTD Liverpool 28 August 2026
GRILLAGROUP LTD Rossendale 28 August 2026
GURMEET CATERING SERVICES LTD Slough 28 August 2026
HNG SOCIAL LTD Birmingham 28 August 2026
HYDERABADI NILOUFER LTD London 28 August 2026
IMPERIAL EVENTS & CATERING LIMITED Crawley 28 August 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 1,054. The quietest was December on 549.

New catering companies in the UK, by month

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 10,327 in total

Previous months August 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 August only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to August 2026 7,223 New catering companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 6,770 Up 7% year on year
2025, the last full year 9,874 Against 1,226 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.

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026

Where they're starting up.

Every town with a page of its own for new catering companies: 57 of them, covering 55% 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 Aug 2026 Last 12 months Relative twelve-month volume
London 133 1,700
Birmingham 20 324
Manchester 24 305
Glasgow 16 170
Bristol 10 139
Leicester 13 125
Ilford 3 116
Nottingham 7 111
Harrow 9 108
Leeds 7 107
Sheffield 10 106
Liverpool 8 104
Coventry 15 95
Bradford 10 89
Milton Keynes 3 80
Luton 5 77
Edinburgh 5 70
Newcastle upon Tyne 7 69
Wembley 4 68
Croydon 5 67
Hounslow 12 66
Reading 4 64
Slough 8 64
Derby 3 61
Bolton 6 57
Romford 5 54
Southampton 3 54
Wolverhampton 5 53
Cardiff 2 52
Northampton 5 52
Preston 2 47
Huddersfield 2 46
Stoke-on-Trent 6 46
Bournemouth 5 44
Salford 5 43
Walsall 3 43
Dagenham 3 42
Hull 6 42
Oldham 5 42
Barking 0 40
Belfast 5 39
Middlesbrough 3 38
Swindon 3 37
Colchester 2 36
Newport 2 36
Norwich 0 36
Southall 3 36
Stockport 4 36
Brighton 1 35
Hayes 3 35
Peterborough 6 35
Watford 1 34
Blackpool 2 33
Plymouth 4 32
Cambridge 2 31
Blackburn 3 30
Doncaster 3 30
United Kingdom, all towns 836 10,327

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. Nothing to buy, and one click to stop.