466 new wholesale companies
registered in the UK, August 2026.

5,557 over the last twelve months, and 31,709 wholesale companies on the register today. The newest 50 are named below. That is about 15 a day, somewhere in the country. 258 registered in the last 30 days to 25 September 2026, 62 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.

Wholesale · United KingdomAugust 2026
New in August
466
Down 9% on July 2026
Last 12 months
5,557
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 463 a month
Share of all new companies
1.1%
5,557 of the 515,810 companies counted across all 39 trades in the last twelve months. That makes wholesale the number 26 trade on the register.
Last 30 days to 25 September 2026, provisional
258
62 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 wholesale companies registered in the UK.

Newest first across the towns in the source files. A town links to its full wholesale 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 5,480 wholesale companies registered across 638 towns, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026.
Company Town Registered
ARGENT FLASH TRADE LIMITED Bradford 31 August 2026
DSK GLOBAL EXPORTS LIMITED Sunderland 31 August 2026
KH STAR LTD Manchester 31 August 2026
NOVARENTIS GROUP LTD Chester 31 August 2026
PRIMENESTS TRADINGS LTD Rainham 31 August 2026
RCB WAKEFIELD LTD Manchester 31 August 2026
SPECTRUM GLOBAL TRADERS LIMITED Birmingham 31 August 2026
VERDKIND LTD Barry 31 August 2026
A&N HERITAGE GROUP LTD London 30 August 2026
ENDLESS GATEWAY GROUP LTD London 30 August 2026
KUNFAYAKUN LIMITED Bolton 30 August 2026
QTYONE UK LTD Preston 30 August 2026
WALIS FAMILY LTD Bradford 29 August 2026
ADVANTAGE DISPOSABLES LTD Derby 28 August 2026
ADVANVIS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED Staines upon Thames 28 August 2026
ALBION TRADE HOUSE LTD Norwich 28 August 2026
APEX FORGE & FLATWARE LTD Milton Keynes 28 August 2026
ARZORA LTD London 28 August 2026
AUROX VAPES LTD Harrow 28 August 2026
BRISK HORIZON RETAIL LTD Manchester 28 August 2026
BUNMAZ LTD Grays 28 August 2026
COPPER PICNIC LTD Stockport 28 August 2026
DSMC HOLDINGS LIMITED Sherborne 28 August 2026
FUTURE TECH TRADING LTD Liverpool 28 August 2026
MAHAM TRADERS LIMITED London 28 August 2026
ROCHESTER OPTICAL (UK) LIMITED Exeter 28 August 2026
SIAL CORP LTD Luton 28 August 2026
SIMA CORPORATION LTD London 28 August 2026
TUURIOWHOLES LTD London 28 August 2026
UNION WHOLESALE LTD London 28 August 2026
VENOM VAPES LTD Manchester 28 August 2026
AKORAA LTD London 27 August 2026
CLENVEK LIMITED Birmingham 27 August 2026
DESERT LINE TRADING COMPANY LTD Dagenham 27 August 2026
ESHAL GLOBAL TRADING LTD London 27 August 2026
JD GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION LTD Cwmbran 27 August 2026
JHM WHOLESALE LTD Leyland 27 August 2026
OO WHOLESALE LTD London 27 August 2026
ORO WHOLESALE LTD London 27 August 2026
PELHAM & VALE LTD Cobham 27 August 2026
RAVARNO LTD Manchester 27 August 2026
TRESTLE LTD Manchester 27 August 2026
TRUE ORIGIN TRADING ENTERPRISES LTD Cambridge 27 August 2026
Z ZHANG TRADING LTD London 27 August 2026
3XA EXPORTER LTD Luton 26 August 2026
ADVENT 360 SUPPORT SOLUTIONS LIMITED Thornton Heath 26 August 2026
ALDERSTONE TRADING LIMITED Birmingham 26 August 2026
AVIELLE LIMITED London 26 August 2026
BERZTRADES LIMITED Salford 26 August 2026
BIRDGE 4 AFRICA LIMITED London 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

September was the busiest month.

Monthly registrations of wholesale companies across the UK. The busiest month was September on 535. The quietest was December on 360.

New wholesale companies in the UK, by month

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 5,557 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.

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

New wholesale companies in the UK, by year

2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to August only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to August 2026 3,707 New wholesale companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 3,416 Up 9% year on year
2025, the last full year 5,266 Against 578 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 wholesale companies: 36 of them, covering 56% of the UK total for the trade. The rest are spread thinly across towns too small to count reliably.

New wholesale 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 90 974
Manchester 17 226
Birmingham 23 218
Leicester 6 124
Luton 15 103
Harrow 6 102
Ilford 4 84
Glasgow 9 76
Liverpool 10 69
Nottingham 3 59
Bradford 4 57
Coventry 3 56
Bolton 5 54
Leeds 6 53
Milton Keynes 1 53
Southall 3 51
Wembley 6 49
Preston 6 48
Bristol 4 46
Hounslow 3 45
Derby 3 43
Newcastle upon Tyne 3 43
Sheffield 2 41
Slough 1 41
Wolverhampton 6 41
Reading 7 38
Stoke-on-Trent 5 38
Walsall 2 37
Edinburgh 3 35
Peterborough 1 34
Cardiff 1 33
Croydon 2 33
Salford 1 32
Dagenham 6 31
Enfield 3 31
Oldham 1 31
United Kingdom, all towns 466 5,557

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 wholesale 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 wholesale 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.