487 new pub and bar companies
registered in the UK, August 2026.

6,305 over the last twelve months, and 38,738 pub and bar companies on the register today. The newest 50 are named below. That is about 17 a day, somewhere in the country. 559 registered in the last 30 days to 25 September 2026, 140 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.

Pubs & bars · United KingdomAugust 2026
New in August
487
Down 13% on July 2026
Last 12 months
6,305
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 525 a month
Share of all new companies
1.2%
6,305 of the 515,810 companies counted across all 39 trades in the last twelve months. That makes pub and bar the number 25 trade on the register.
Last 30 days to 25 September 2026, provisional
559
140 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 pub and bar companies registered in the UK.

Newest first across the towns in the source files. A town links to its full pub and bar 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 6,035 pub and bar companies registered across 959 towns, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026.
Company Town Registered
DARK MATTER 2026 LTD Newport 31 August 2026
IT MUST BE LOVE LIMITED Spilsby 31 August 2026
KERNOW HOSPITALITY LTD Bodmin 31 August 2026
BALLYWHOLANLEISURE LTD Dungannon 29 August 2026
AD INNS LTD Dundee 28 August 2026
BOLT PUBS LIMITED Birmingham 28 August 2026
COTTAGE DINING LTD Haverfordwest 28 August 2026
CRAFTED CRUSTS LTD Nottingham 28 August 2026
DICKINNS BAR & VENUE LIMITED Stanford le Hope 28 August 2026
ECD INNS LTD Dover 28 August 2026
ETRC TRUSTEES COMPANY LIMITED Stanford le Hope 28 August 2026
GEM12 LTD Casnewydd 28 August 2026
MARKETPLACE TAPHOUSE LIMITED Buxton 28 August 2026
MK TAVERN MELKSHAM LTD Melksham 28 August 2026
MOLLY M BAR LTD Ballymoney 28 August 2026
OC PUBS AND BARS LTD Minehead 28 August 2026
OG'S (WELLINGBOROUGH) CLUB LIMITED Rushden 28 August 2026
RAILWAY HOTEL DENNY LTD Falkirk 28 August 2026
SG PUBS LIMITED Milton Keynes 28 August 2026
SOBP LIMITED Birmingham 28 August 2026
THE BIRDCAGE BORO LTD Middlesbrough 28 August 2026
THE NEWARTHILL CLUB HUME LTD Motherwell 28 August 2026
THE SHERWOOD BAR LTD Retford 28 August 2026
THE WARM WELCOME FOX LIMITED Northampton 28 August 2026
TITUS FIRE AND REMEDIALS LTD Dartford 28 August 2026
TRAFALGAR SQUARE BAR TRADING LTD London 28 August 2026
TWO LADIES TAVERNS LTD Dukinfield 28 August 2026
YE OLDE HOUSE HULL LTD Hull 28 August 2026
46 CLUB LTD Aberystwyth 27 August 2026
AVES VERITAS LIMITED Trowbridge 27 August 2026
B.H.S TAVERN LTD Bradford 27 August 2026
BT124 WATERLOO LTD London 27 August 2026
CELLARS AND VINE LTD Swansea 27 August 2026
CREEK ROAD PUB CO LIMITED London 27 August 2026
DODONA LTD Barrow-in-Furness 27 August 2026
EVENTS ON TAP LIMITED Sevenoaks 27 August 2026
HOLYOAK HOSPITALITY LIMITED Kettering 27 August 2026
JULIE BROOKS LTD Mansfield 27 August 2026
LADIES AT THE BAR LIMITED Keswick 27 August 2026
MBOX LIVERPOOL LTD Liverpool 27 August 2026
OXFORDSHIRE HOSPITALITY LTD Oxford 27 August 2026
PROUD HOSPITALITY (SOUTH WEST) LTD Plymouth 27 August 2026
PTNG YORKS LTD Bradford 27 August 2026
RICHIAN LIMITED London 27 August 2026
RS SILVERWINGS LIMITED Cookstown 27 August 2026
SHINE HOSPITALITY LTD Keighley 27 August 2026
THE CURFEW TAVERN LIMITED Egham 27 August 2026
THE JACKIMO PUB COMPANY LTD Rugby 27 August 2026
TROPICAL HOUSE LTD Brentwood 27 August 2026
ASHTON’S COFFEE AND WINE BAR LTD Eastbourne 26 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

March was the busiest month.

Monthly registrations of pub and bar companies across the UK. The busiest month was March on 644. The quietest was December on 344.

New pub and bar companies in the UK, by month

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 6,305 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.

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

New pub and bar companies in the UK, by year

2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to August only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to August 2026 4,384 New pub and bar companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 4,321 Up 1% year on year
2025, the last full year 6,242 Against 1,038 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 pub and bar companies: 32 of them, covering 32% of the UK total for the trade. The rest are spread thinly across towns too small to count reliably.

New pub and bar 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 23 379
Liverpool 5 114
Glasgow 9 103
Manchester 10 102
Birmingham 10 87
Leicester 7 77
Bristol 2 75
Sheffield 9 64
Leeds 1 61
Newcastle upon Tyne 1 56
Bradford 2 54
Nottingham 10 53
Derby 3 50
Cardiff 2 47
Edinburgh 3 47
Coventry 3 46
Southampton 2 45
Doncaster 4 43
York 0 40
Northampton 3 39
Brighton 3 38
Dundee 3 37
Stockport 3 37
Stoke-on-Trent 1 37
Huddersfield 2 36
Belfast 1 34
Blackpool 3 34
Hull 2 34
Wolverhampton 1 34
Stafford 2 32
Preston 5 31
Wigan 1 30
United Kingdom, all towns 487 6,305

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 pub and bar 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 pub and bar 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.