950 new convenience store companies
registered in the UK, August 2026.

12,267 over the last twelve months, and 67,559 convenience store companies on the register today. The newest 50 are named below. That is about 34 a day, somewhere in the country. 983 registered in the last 30 days to 25 September 2026, 235 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.

Convenience stores · United KingdomAugust 2026
New in August
950
Down 15% on July 2026
Last 12 months
12,267
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 1,022 a month
Share of all new companies
2.4%
12,267 of the 515,810 companies counted across all 39 trades in the last twelve months. That makes convenience store the number 15 trade on the register.
Last 30 days to 25 September 2026, provisional
983
235 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 convenience store companies registered in the UK.

Newest first across the towns in the source files. A town links to its full convenience store 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 12,027 convenience store companies registered across 968 towns, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026.
Company Town Registered
AL-IHRAAM ISLAMIC LIFESTYLE LTD Birmingham 31 August 2026
ALQAIM GROUP LTD Manchester 31 August 2026
ANNA BEST MINI MARKET LTD Chelmsford 31 August 2026
BAZAAR ONLINE LTD Manchester 31 August 2026
BEGALI SWEETS AND SAVOURIES LTD Southall 31 August 2026
GARDEN CITY RETAIL LIMITED Longniddry 31 August 2026
GLOBAL TRADING CART LTD Smethwick 31 August 2026
KH STAR LTD Manchester 31 August 2026
MSA TRADEHUB LTD Oxford 31 August 2026
SMAWTHORNE SHOP LIMITED Castleford 31 August 2026
VIANA BARGAINS LTD London 31 August 2026
WHITTLESEY SHOP PLUS LTD Peterborough 31 August 2026
AKHANJI SWEET MAHAL LTD London 30 August 2026
CONVENIENCE 45 LTD Birmingham 30 August 2026
ELBETH AFROCARRIBEAN STORES LTD Spalding 30 August 2026
HN LOGISTICS & COURIER LTD Ilford 30 August 2026
KUNFAYAKUN LIMITED Bolton 30 August 2026
NATCHI REYAN LIMITED Durham 30 August 2026
QUALITY SUPERSTORE (AYLESTONE) LTD Leicester 30 August 2026
TOP SHOP SNACK LTD Leicester 30 August 2026
BELULO LTD Ilford 29 August 2026
DAILY DASH BLACKPOOL LTD Blackpool 29 August 2026
DEALS BASKET LTD Manchester 29 August 2026
HRAS MANAGEMENT LTD Darlington 29 August 2026
MUHA LIMITED Smethwick 29 August 2026
AFGHAN SUPEMARKET LTD Birmingham 28 August 2026
AFGHAN SUPERMARKET 1 LTD Swindon 28 August 2026
ALI FAGLEY MINI MARKET LTD Bradford 28 August 2026
AM:VAULT LTD Washington 28 August 2026
AMBER VAULT LIMITED Wigan 28 August 2026
ARMAN NEXUS LTD Manchester 28 August 2026
BITE&BREW KEIGHLEY LTD Keighley 28 August 2026
BRISK HORIZON RETAIL LTD Manchester 28 August 2026
CCCJR TRADING LIMITED Southampton 28 August 2026
CHOPRA LEGACY LIMITED Hayes 28 August 2026
COMMANDO PEPTIDES LIMITED Merthyr Tydfil 28 August 2026
COPPER PICNIC LTD Stockport 28 August 2026
CSD TRADING LTD Northampton 28 August 2026
CULLINAN I HAIR&BEAUTY LTD Middlesbrough 28 August 2026
DAYNIGHT HD LTD Huddersfield 28 August 2026
FADSTORE LTD Reading 28 August 2026
FENWRIGHT LTD London 28 August 2026
FRESKO LTD Hayes 28 August 2026
FUTURE TECH TRADING LTD Liverpool 28 August 2026
GROVE MINI MARKET LTD Birmingham 28 August 2026
GV BIG BAZAR LIMITED Stockport 28 August 2026
ILFORD FOOD AND WINE LTD Ilford 28 August 2026
JACKSONS ATM LTD Brentwood 28 August 2026
JP HONDO LIMITED Bath 28 August 2026
K2D GROUP LTD Uxbridge 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

September was the busiest month.

Monthly registrations of convenience store companies across the UK. The busiest month was September on 1,182. The quietest was December on 820.

New convenience store companies in the UK, by month

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 12,267 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.

Convenience stores companies on the register by year of incorporation, and this year measured against the same run of months last year.

New convenience store companies in the UK, by year

2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to August only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to August 2026 8,167 New convenience store companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 7,835 Up 4% year on year
2025, the last full year 11,935 Against 1,630 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 convenience store companies: 74 of them, covering 59% of the UK total for the trade. The rest are spread thinly across towns too small to count reliably.

New convenience store 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 100 1,392
Birmingham 48 431
Manchester 31 407
Glasgow 28 317
Liverpool 18 261
Leicester 12 228
Bradford 15 156
Leeds 9 151
Nottingham 9 143
Ilford 16 130
Bristol 10 124
Harrow 8 124
Sheffield 14 122
Coventry 11 117
Bolton 10 112
Edinburgh 9 106
Hounslow 10 97
Southall 10 94
Oldham 7 89
Hull 5 88
Newcastle upon Tyne 12 80
Doncaster 7 79
Preston 3 77
Hayes 9 75
Wolverhampton 11 75
Stoke-on-Trent 4 72
Luton 3 71
Cardiff 2 69
Derby 4 68
Croydon 4 64
Huddersfield 5 63
Northampton 7 61
Peterborough 3 57
Reading 4 57
Stockport 4 56
Aberdeen 4 55
Walsall 1 54
Wembley 8 54
Blackburn 1 53
Southampton 5 53
Milton Keynes 5 52
Rotherham 0 50
Bournemouth 4 49
Dundee 0 49
Brighton 4 47
Slough 2 46
Wigan 2 46
Norwich 5 45
Ipswich 0 44
Rochdale 4 43
Gloucester 3 42
Middlesbrough 5 41
Newport 4 41
Barking 3 39
Swindon 2 39
Northolt 2 38
Watford 1 38
Barnsley 5 37
Belfast 2 36
Smethwick 6 36
Romford 1 35
Swansea 2 35
Poole 4 34
Warrington 6 34
Bedford 1 33
Sunderland 3 33
Salford 1 32
Chelmsford 4 31
Edgware 3 31
Enfield 3 31
Mansfield 4 31
Wakefield 1 31
Dagenham 3 30
Paisley 1 30
United Kingdom, all towns 950 12,267

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 convenience store 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 convenience store 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.