4,346 new online retail companies
registered in the UK, October 2026.

4,346 were registered in October 2026, from the Companies House register; 43,154 over the last twelve months, and 149,398 online retail companies are on the register today. The newest are named below. That is about 118 a day, somewhere in the country. 4,270 registered in the last 30 days to 12 November 2026, 987 in the last 7 days.

Which companies count: SIC code 47910 retail sale via mail order houses or via internet.

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.

Online retail · United KingdomOctober 2026
New in October
4,346
Down 6% on September 2026
Last 12 months
43,154
Nov 2025 – Oct 2026 · 3,596 a month
Share of all new companies
8.6%
43,154 of the 504,685 companies counted across all 39 trades in the last twelve months. That makes online retail the number 3 trade on the register.
Last 30 days to 12 November 2026
4,270
987 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
EVERGREEN HUB LTDLondon4 Aug 2026Online retaili•••@evergreen-hub.com
YILDIZ KAPAK LTDLondon16 Oct 2026Online retaili•••@yildizkapak.com
POWEREDIN LTDBury22 Jul 2026Online retaili•••@poweredin.co.uk
TRESSELLE LIMITEDLondon19 Oct 2026Online retailh•••@tresselle.co.uk
POSTERPROMPT LTDNorwich14 Oct 2026Online retails•••@posterprompt.co.uk
Quick answer

Online retail companies in the UK: the short answer.

How many online retail companies are there in the UK?

149,398 live companies are on the Companies House register under SIC code 47910, as of 1 November 2026. 43,154 were registered in the last twelve months. Sole traders and ordinary partnerships are not on the register, so there are more online retail businesses than this.

Registered since 1 November

1,801 new online retail companies so far in November.

Newest first, updated every night.

The 20 most recent of 1,801 online retail companies registered in the UK, 1 to 12 November 2026.
CompanyTownRegistered
FAIZBROTHERS LTDAirdrie12 November 2026
LILLIROA LTDDunfermline12 November 2026
LAINE BEAUTY LTDCowdenbeath12 November 2026
ELQUVANI TRADING LTDGlasgow12 November 2026
ROYKATA GROUP LIMITEDAberdeen12 November 2026
PROMOTION GALLERY LTDEdinburgh12 November 2026
PRIME ZENITH TRADING LTDEdinburgh12 November 2026
INFINITYLIFE GROUP LTDAyr12 November 2026
ARS GLOBAL LIMITEDBurntisland12 November 2026
CALNIX LTDGlasgow12 November 2026
HOUSE OF TERA LTDReading12 November 2026
FLORENCE TECH LTDLondon12 November 2026
E1LEVENLABS LIMITEDMaldon12 November 2026
ZABI PVT LIMITEDDagenham12 November 2026
LASHTON LIMITEDOldham12 November 2026
IGNITE YOUR PATH LTDBirmingham12 November 2026
GZO TRADING LTDMargate12 November 2026
XUNKAI LIMITEDBarnsley12 November 2026
MIO DISTRIBUTION LTDSheffield12 November 2026
NFHA LIMITEDReading12 November 2026

And 1,781 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 online retail 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 42,592 online retail companies registered across 1,189 towns, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026.
Company Town Registered
ALIYEV THE GREAT LIMITED Birmingham 31 October 2026
APEX ECOM LTD Rugby 31 October 2026
ASADWYN VENTURES LTD Bradford 31 October 2026
AZIVEX LTD Rickmansworth 31 October 2026
BARYR LTD Whitby 31 October 2026
BOXMOOR LTD Liverpool 31 October 2026
BRAZKO DISTRIBUTION LTD Deeside 31 October 2026
BVB RETAIL LTD Preston 31 October 2026
CARTIVO GLOBAL LTD Wishaw 31 October 2026
CH PRIME LTD London 31 October 2026
CHOUDHURY RETAIL ENTERPRISE LTD London 31 October 2026
DANAB EMPIRE LTD Luton 31 October 2026
DARBAZ LTD Manchester 31 October 2026
DEM BOYZ UK LTD Slough 31 October 2026
ED PERKIN VINTAGE LTD Warwick 31 October 2026
EF MART LTD Maidstone 31 October 2026
ELEVENS CLOTHING LTD Belper 31 October 2026
EXENTRO LTD Stockport 31 October 2026
FAIRWAY FEET LTD Liverpool 31 October 2026
FAIRWICK LIMITED London 31 October 2026
FARAS & CO LTD Isleworth 31 October 2026
FARNUX & CO LTD Ilford 31 October 2026
FEL DISTRIBUTION LTD Portsmouth 31 October 2026
FIELD NOTES APP LTD London 31 October 2026
FJWORLD LTD Brentford 31 October 2026
FLYING BEST LIMITED Gravesend 31 October 2026
FR SMART LTD Dunfermline 31 October 2026
G-TECH VENTURES LTD Watford 31 October 2026
GETKANDY LTD Birmingham 31 October 2026
GYCOLLECTIBLES LTD Grimsby 31 October 2026
HAKIM COMMERCE LTD Derby 31 October 2026
INDUS&CLYDE TRADING LTD Airdrie 31 October 2026
JDB GOODS UK LTD Newcastle 31 October 2026
KAM JEWELLERY LONDON LTD Milton Keynes 31 October 2026
KARMIC V HOME LIMITED Gillingham 31 October 2026
LEVANT AIR LTD Leicester 31 October 2026
LUXOASISMARKET LTD Exeter 31 October 2026
MANCHESTER DOG STORE LIMITED Manchester 31 October 2026
MAVUELLE LTD Barking 31 October 2026
MAYANI LTD London 31 October 2026
MCZJONLINE LTD Manchester 31 October 2026
MEESAMS LOGISTICS LIMITED Slough 31 October 2026
NEXTDAY0121 LTD Birmingham 31 October 2026
PEACE OF EBONY LTD Spalding 31 October 2026
RAISO LTD Luton 31 October 2026
STACKBOX LTD Witham 31 October 2026
TBR SERVICES LIMITED Oldham 31 October 2026
THAT RINGS A BELL LIMITED Bradford 31 October 2026
TJ COMMERCE LTD London 31 October 2026
TOP OF THE EVEREST LIMITED Derby 31 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

September was the busiest month.

Monthly registrations of online retail companies across the UK. The busiest month was September on 4,615. The quietest was December on 2,533.

New online retail companies in the UK, by month

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026 · 43,154 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.

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

New online retail companies in the UK, by year

2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to October only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to October 2026 37,632 New online retail companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 27,926 Up 35% year on year
2025, the last full year 33,448 Against 2,118 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 online retail companies: 241 of them, covering 83% of the UK total for the trade. The rest are spread thinly across towns too small to count reliably.

New online retail 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 590 6,073
Manchester 168 1,906
Birmingham 179 1,738
Glasgow 74 809
Ilford 71 805
Leicester 65 644
Bradford 67 629
Bolton 58 547
Liverpool 69 488
Luton 47 461
Leeds 47 457
Nottingham 41 453
Bristol 48 433
Slough 51 433
Harrow 39 409
Sheffield 55 361
Coventry 33 351
Milton Keynes 34 314
Blackburn 37 304
Oldham 29 304
Preston 28 300
Stoke-on-Trent 34 295
Edinburgh 30 290
Huddersfield 32 283
Reading 24 270
Derby 20 269
Dagenham 29 259
Romford 22 254
Northampton 34 247
Wembley 17 247
Rochdale 17 245
Newcastle upon Tyne 34 239
Hounslow 14 234
Barking 25 227
Peterborough 20 223
Southampton 14 221
Cardiff 24 218
Walsall 18 213
Croydon 16 201
Wolverhampton 16 191
Southall 22 190
Middlesbrough 15 177
Hayes 16 176
Norwich 19 175
Stockport 21 164
Enfield 19 163
Belfast 11 162
Watford 12 160
Hull 17 146
Salford 12 145
Newport 14 143
Doncaster 12 134
Colchester 18 132
High Wycombe 11 128
Edgware 16 124
Warrington 13 123
Bournemouth 17 122
Bedford 14 115
Swindon 9 112
Aberdeen 12 110
Ipswich 12 110
Dewsbury 11 108
Bury 9 107
Cambridge 3 107
Brighton 8 106
Crawley 11 106
Rotherham 11 106
Gloucester 14 103
Lincoln 12 102
Uxbridge 8 101
Ashton-under-Lyne 6 100
Halifax 6 100
Burnley 12 99
Thornton Heath 5 98
Dartford 11 94
Aylesbury 11 93
Mitcham 8 93
Nelson 16 93
Wigan 7 92
Feltham 6 91
Oxford 13 90
Chelmsford 9 87
Solihull 10 87
Sunderland 8 87
Stockton-on-Tees 8 86
Wakefield 13 86
Maidstone 5 83
Greenford 4 82
Batley 7 81
Grays 9 80
Swansea 12 80
Nuneaton 13 79
Telford 7 79
Dundee 6 78
Dudley 8 77
Plymouth 2 77
Ashford 12 76
West Drayton 3 76
Blackpool 3 75
Cheltenham 4 74
Stanmore 6 74
York 5 74
Basildon 8 72
Gravesend 10 72
Sutton 7 72
Woking 7 72
West Bromwich 12 69
Mansfield 4 68
Poole 7 68
Canterbury 10 67
Loughborough 5 67
Oldbury 3 67
Smethwick 6 66
Darlington 1 65
Gillingham 9 65
Worcester 3 65
Bromley 8 64
Epsom 14 64
Hemel Hempstead 7 64
Harlow 10 63
Portsmouth 6 63
Barnsley 5 62
St Helens 11 61
Abingdon 5 59
Burton-on-Trent 3 59
Cheadle 7 59
Dunstable 6 59
Keighley 4 59
Orpington 7 59
Redditch 8 59
Chatham 7 58
Staines upon Thames 6 58
Brentwood 6 56
Hornchurch 6 56
Lisburn 1 56
Maidenhead 5 56
Morden 4 56
Motherwell 9 56
Sutton Coldfield 4 56
Northolt 6 55
Wellingborough 9 55
Chesterfield 5 53
Exeter 8 53
Chester 5 52
Basingstoke 7 50
Boston 3 50
Durham 8 50
Gateshead 5 50
Accrington 10 49
Altrincham 2 49
Caerdydd 1 49
Eastbourne 6 49
Rainham 5 49
Ramsgate 5 49
Woodford Green 4 49
Aldershot 7 48
Hatfield 6 48
Crewe 6 47
St Albans 4 47
Surbiton 4 47
Wirral 10 47
Camberley 4 46
Kingston upon Thames 9 46
Southend-on-Sea 5 46
Brentford 4 45
Guildford 5 45
Kettering 7 45
Rochester 2 45
Scunthorpe 6 45
Southsea 7 44
Stevenage 3 44
Weston-super-Mare 6 44
Bracknell 3 43
Stafford 5 42
Waltham Cross 3 42
Worthing 6 42
Bilston 3 41
Grimsby 4 41
Hove 5 41
Hyde 1 41
Isleworth 4 41
Tipton 5 41
Tunbridge Wells 2 41
Banbury 5 40
Leamington Spa 5 40
Paisley 5 40
Rugby 5 40
Sevenoaks 2 40
Shrewsbury 4 40
Southport 3 40
Bicester 4 38
Bootle 6 38
Corby 6 38
Hamilton 4 38
Sale 2 38
Ruislip 2 37
Welling 2 37
Barnet 4 36
Bridgwater 3 36
Great Yarmouth 2 36
King's Lynn 3 36
Taunton 3 36
Wrexham 3 36
Chorley 5 35
Leigh 2 35
Richmond 4 35
Rossendale 5 35
Andover 4 34
Birkenhead 3 34
Borehamwood 2 34
Bury St Edmunds 0 34
Livingston 2 34
Macclesfield 3 34
Salisbury 1 34
Tamworth 7 34
Wednesbury 4 34
Bath 2 33
Chichester 4 33
Halesowen 2 33
Pinner 0 33
Stourbridge 2 33
Wallington 5 33
Windsor 1 33
Ellesmere Port 3 32
Fareham 6 32
Hitchin 5 32
Wokingham 1 32
Dunfermline 4 31
Erith 4 31
Horsham 4 31
New Malden 2 31
Falkirk 3 30
Loughton 5 30
South Croydon 2 30
Torquay 0 30
Huntingdon 0 29
Northwich 1 29
Twickenham 4 29
Winchester 1 29
Coatbridge 1 28
Harrogate 2 24
United Kingdom, all towns 4,346 43,154

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 online retail 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 online retail 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.