4,043 new online retail companies
registered in the UK, August 2026.

42,359 over the last twelve months, and 145,943 online retail companies on the register today. The newest 50 are named below. That is about 116 a day, somewhere in the country. 4,455 registered in the last 30 days to 25 September 2026, 1,026 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.

Online retail · United KingdomAugust 2026
New in August
4,043
Down 10% on July 2026
Last 12 months
42,359
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 3,530 a month
Share of all new companies
8.2%
42,359 of the 515,810 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 25 September 2026, provisional
4,455
1,026 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 online retail companies registered in the UK.

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 41,793 online retail companies registered across 1,211 towns, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026.
Company Town Registered
A&V MELTED LTD Elgin 31 August 2026
ABMSHOP LTD Worthing 31 August 2026
ANJUM TRADES LTD Burnley 31 August 2026
ARGENT FLASH TRADE LIMITED Bradford 31 August 2026
BABYSHAN LTD Grantham 31 August 2026
BARKER&MEWS LTD Billingham 31 August 2026
BEAGLE COMMERCE LIMITED London 31 August 2026
BHS SALES LTD Stockport 31 August 2026
BISSA LTD Manchester 31 August 2026
BLACK APPLE LTD Wembley 31 August 2026
BLAIDD GK LTD Newport 31 August 2026
BSB SPORTS LTD Ilford 31 August 2026
BURHAN EDUCATION LTD Hounslow 31 August 2026
CHERINE DOCHERTY LTD Glasgow 31 August 2026
CHUGHTAI TRADINGS LIMITED London 31 August 2026
CORE CLOUDY LTD London 31 August 2026
DEMURE WHOLESALE LTD Birmingham 31 August 2026
DIRECT FIND LTD Barking 31 August 2026
DSK GLOBAL EXPORTS LIMITED Sunderland 31 August 2026
EARLY WORM CAPS LTD Telford 31 August 2026
EN VODKA LTD Leicester 31 August 2026
FARIS.T LTD Hounslow 31 August 2026
FELSTEAD GROWTH LIMITED Cannock 31 August 2026
FLEX SHOP LTD Worthing 31 August 2026
H&S GOODS LIMITED Stoke-on-Trent 31 August 2026
HAIR REMOVAL MACHINES LTD London 31 August 2026
HAMEED LATEEF GROUP LTD Wembley 31 August 2026
HAVE COMMERCE CYF Wrexham 31 August 2026
IZZARO LTD Huddersfield 31 August 2026
JACKFBA LTD Great Yarmouth 31 August 2026
JONESANDCO LTD London 31 August 2026
JORÉ TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED Bradford 31 August 2026
JS WAREHOUSE UK LTD Bolton 31 August 2026
JTES GROUP LTD Fleet 31 August 2026
KELVORO LIMITED Middlesbrough 31 August 2026
KF TRADERS LTD Colchester 31 August 2026
KH STAR LTD Manchester 31 August 2026
KMC ENTERPRISE LTD Coventry 31 August 2026
LAVIZA ENTERPRISES LTD Blackburn 31 August 2026
LUMINAY LTD Durham 31 August 2026
LUXRINK LTD Bedford 31 August 2026
LYFE300 LTD Birmingham 31 August 2026
M&MOORES LTD Chatham 31 August 2026
MEDIC WELLNESS AND BEAUTY GROUP UK LTD Milton Keynes 31 August 2026
MH ESSENTIALS LTD Enfield 31 August 2026
MUSIC SHARK LTD Redditch 31 August 2026
NEXVANTA TRADING LTD Kirkcaldy 31 August 2026
NOURISH NEST THRIVE LTD London 31 August 2026
NOVARENTIS GROUP LTD Chester 31 August 2026
NURVHIA LTD Rochdale 31 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 online retail companies across the UK. The busiest month was July on 4,493. The quietest was December on 2,591.

New online retail companies in the UK, by month

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 42,359 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.

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 August only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to August 2026 29,194 New online retail companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 22,512 Up 30% year on year
2025, the last full year 35,677 Against 2,151 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 online retail companies: 232 of them, covering 82% 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 Aug 2026 Last 12 months Relative twelve-month volume
London 523 6,117
Manchester 194 1,830
Birmingham 165 1,702
Glasgow 78 816
Ilford 70 796
Leicester 53 633
Bradford 67 597
Bolton 51 509
Luton 36 469
Nottingham 39 460
Leeds 36 448
Bristol 42 433
Liverpool 64 420
Harrow 37 408
Slough 32 401
Stoke-on-Trent 24 338
Coventry 32 335
Sheffield 33 326
Oldham 27 291
Milton Keynes 17 290
Edinburgh 29 283
Preston 22 278
Blackburn 28 268
Derby 30 268
Reading 31 258
Huddersfield 32 255
Northampton 29 250
Romford 26 248
Wolverhampton 54 248
Dagenham 17 245
Wembley 27 245
Hounslow 24 242
Rochdale 21 233
Cardiff 16 229
Southampton 19 225
Newcastle upon Tyne 28 222
Barking 19 220
Peterborough 12 211
Walsall 22 208
Croydon 25 202
Southall 22 197
Middlesbrough 19 173
Enfield 20 169
Hayes 22 169
Norwich 8 167
Belfast 9 166
Watford 8 166
Stockport 14 159
Salford 6 137
Hull 11 134
Doncaster 9 131
High Wycombe 13 130
Cambridge 10 128
Newport 20 127
Edgware 8 124
Colchester 14 123
Warrington 15 113
Swindon 6 112
Bournemouth 9 110
Crawley 10 109
Dewsbury 8 105
Gloucester 9 105
Rotherham 13 105
Uxbridge 11 105
Aberdeen 13 104
Ashton-under-Lyne 6 104
Bury 10 102
Bedford 7 101
Brighton 10 99
Ipswich 9 99
Oxford 7 99
Halifax 10 96
Lincoln 4 96
Thornton Heath 6 94
Mitcham 8 93
Burnley 5 91
Sunderland 12 90
Feltham 11 89
Wigan 9 89
Chelmsford 8 87
Dartford 4 87
Aylesbury 12 85
Greenford 8 84
Blackpool 7 82
Maidstone 10 82
Nelson 6 81
Dundee 9 80
Darlington 4 79
Solihull 7 79
Stanmore 5 79
Plymouth 9 77
Swansea 4 76
York 4 76
Grays 5 75
Stockton-on-Tees 5 75
Basildon 6 74
Dudley 9 74
Woking 6 74
Batley 9 73
Nuneaton 13 73
Wakefield 6 73
West Drayton 9 72
Ashford 9 71
Harlow 7 70
Mansfield 5 70
Portsmouth 9 70
Telford 8 70
Cheltenham 11 69
Oldbury 6 67
Worcester 5 67
Smethwick 5 66
Sutton 7 66
Barnsley 6 65
Bromley 5 65
Loughborough 2 65
Keighley 5 64
Hemel Hempstead 6 63
Gravesend 8 62
Poole 6 62
Gillingham 5 60
Maidenhead 6 59
St Helens 7 59
Abingdon 3 58
Orpington 4 58
West Bromwich 5 58
Burton-on-Trent 5 57
Gateshead 1 56
Canterbury 4 55
Lisburn 1 55
Chester 9 54
Dunstable 1 54
Morden 8 54
Sutton Coldfield 6 54
Cheadle 7 53
Exeter 3 53
Hornchurch 4 53
Redditch 8 53
Rochester 7 53
Altrincham 8 52
Stevenage 9 52
Epsom 15 51
Wellingborough 7 51
Chatham 9 50
Durham 4 50
Northolt 5 50
Basingstoke 8 49
Brentwood 6 49
Southend-on-Sea 4 49
Brentford 0 48
Bromsgrove 6 48
Hatfield 5 48
Rainham 8 48
Staines upon Thames 8 48
Aldershot 5 47
Eastbourne 5 47
Motherwell 10 47
St Albans 5 47
Chesterfield 4 46
Taunton 3 46
Woodford Green 2 46
Bracknell 5 45
Caerdydd 9 45
Camberley 1 45
Grimsby 0 45
Surbiton 3 45
Accrington 4 44
Boston 4 44
Kingston upon Thames 4 44
Ramsgate 8 44
Weston-super-Mare 9 44
Scunthorpe 4 43
Crewe 5 42
Erith 6 42
Hove 4 42
Hyde 4 42
Southport 1 42
Tunbridge Wells 2 42
Kettering 2 41
Macclesfield 4 41
Pinner 4 41
Rugby 2 41
Ruislip 3 41
Barnet 4 40
Bicester 6 40
Livingston 2 40
Worthing 6 40
Isleworth 3 39
Southsea 2 39
Sevenoaks 4 37
Tipton 4 37
Wirral 6 37
Banbury 5 36
Bath 3 36
Bury St Edmunds 5 36
Leamington Spa 1 36
Welling 5 36
Wokingham 3 36
Wrexham 9 36
Bridgwater 1 35
Great Yarmouth 3 35
Guildford 8 35
King's Lynn 6 35
Northwich 4 35
Shrewsbury 0 35
Stafford 4 35
Buckinghamshire 3 34
Hamilton 3 34
Huntingdon 2 34
Sale 3 34
Salisbury 6 34
Waltham Cross 2 34
Wednesbury 7 34
Corby 5 33
Halesowen 5 33
Paisley 3 33
Richmond 1 33
Stourbridge 2 33
Andover 5 32
Birkenhead 2 32
Fareham 1 32
Harrogate 2 32
Leigh 3 32
Wallington 2 32
Winchester 1 32
Windsor 5 32
Borehamwood 1 31
Ellesmere Port 3 31
New Malden 2 31
Torquay 4 31
Horsham 3 30
Twickenham 0 30
Chorley 3 27
United Kingdom, all towns 4,043 42,359

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. Nothing to buy, and one click to stop.