The 50 newest companies registered in Manchester.
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 Manchester.
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.
Online retail leads Manchester.
Every trade counted in Manchester over the last twelve months, busiest first. Online retail took 1,830 of the 12,879, and the retail and food family took 33% between them. 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retail and food. Online retail | 194 | 1,830 | |
| Property. Property investment & letting | 120 | 1,649 | |
| Building and trades. Construction | 87 | 1,064 | |
| Digital and professional. Management consultancy | 40 | 645 | |
| Retail and food. Takeaways | 45 | 617 | |
| People and care. Health practitioners | 38 | 507 | |
| Property. Property management | 37 | 503 | |
| Digital and professional. Web & software development | 50 | 495 | |
| Retail and food. Convenience stores | 31 | 407 | |
| Retail and food. Restaurants & cafes | 28 | 406 | |
| Digital and professional. IT consultancy | 29 | 388 | |
| Retail and food. Hairdressing & beauty | 20 | 324 | |
| Transport and logistics. Freight & couriers | 30 | 318 | |
| People and care. Cleaning services | 26 | 317 | |
| Digital and professional. Advertising & design | 29 | 309 | |
| Retail and food. Catering & events | 24 | 305 | |
| Digital and professional. Business support services | 20 | 298 | |
| Digital and professional. IT support | 23 | 253 | |
| Digital and professional. Education & training | 13 | 235 | |
| Retail and food. Wholesale | 17 | 226 | |
| Transport and logistics. Used car dealers | 13 | 216 | |
| Digital and professional. Architecture & engineering | 12 | 180 | |
| Transport and logistics. Motor vehicle repair | 19 | 176 | |
| People and care. Care services | 12 | 146 | |
| Building and trades. Plumbers & HVAC | 8 | 109 | |
| Retail and food. Pubs & bars | 10 | 102 | |
| Digital and professional. Recruitment | 7 | 99 | |
| Digital and professional. Accounting | 6 | 94 | |
| Digital and professional. Estate agents | 7 | 92 | |
| Transport and logistics. Taxi & private hire | 11 | 91 | |
| Building and trades. Electricians | 8 | 89 | |
| People and care. Security services | 7 | 89 | |
| Digital and professional. Legal services | 6 | 68 | |
| People and care. Fitness | 7 | 50 | |
| People and care. Childcare | 2 | 48 | |
| Building and trades. Landscaping | 7 | 48 | |
| Digital and professional. Photography | 2 | 43 | |
| Transport and logistics. Removals | 3 | 40 | |
| People and care. Veterinary | 0 | 3 | |
| Manchester, all trades | 1,048 | 12,879 |
A trade needs at least 30 new companies in Manchester over twelve months before it gets a page of its own, so the one trade below that line is 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.
October was the busiest month.
New companies registered to a Manchester address each month, across all 39 trades. The busiest month was October on 1,264. The quietest was December on 808.
New companies in Manchester, by month
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 12,879 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 Manchester goes.
Companies registered to a Manchester address by year of incorporation, across all 39 trades, and this year measured against the same run of months last year.
New companies in Manchester, 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 Manchester compares.
New companies over the last twelve months in the towns closest to Manchester on volume. Manchester is number 3 of the 1,082 towns counted here.
20 companies from August 2026 registered in Manchester, any trade, you can actually contact. £15.
20 of the companies that registered a Manchester address in August 2026, across every trade we count, have an email address we checked as deliverable and tied to that company: name, number, registered address, directors, website and the contact. The rest are left out, not padded in, and you are not charged for them.
One file, every trade, filtered to Manchester 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 Manchester are on this page (822 registered in the 30 days to 25 September 2026), and every trade's last 30 days is a free CSV. Pick the trade.