501 new wholesale companies
registered in the UK, October 2026.

501 were registered in October 2026, from the Companies House register; 5,535 over the last twelve months, and 32,009 wholesale companies are on the register today. The newest are named below. That is about 15 a day, somewhere in the country. 511 registered in the last 30 days to 12 November 2026, 131 in the last 7 days.

Which companies count: SIC code 46900 non-specialised wholesale trade.

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.

Wholesale · United KingdomOctober 2026
New in October
501
Down 12% on September 2026
Last 12 months
5,535
Nov 2025 – Oct 2026 · 461 a month
Share of all new companies
1.1%
5,535 of the 504,685 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 12 November 2026
511
131 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
PEOPLECRAFT LTDBirmingham28 Jul 2026Wholesalei•••@peoplecraft.co.uk
BESTBROTHERS UK LIMITEDHounslow5 Sep 2026Wholesalei•••@bestbrothers.co.uk
PERFORMANCE POTIONS LTDRotherham14 Sep 2026Wholesalei•••@performancepotions.co.uk
DIGIARMADA LTDCroydon21 May 2026Wholesalei•••@digiarmada.co.uk
CRESTLINE WHOLESALE LIMITEDRomsey11 Sep 2026Wholesalei•••@crestlinewholesale.co.uk
Quick answer

Wholesale companies in the UK: the short answer.

How many wholesale companies are there in the UK?

32,009 live companies are on the Companies House register under SIC code 46900, as of 1 November 2026. 5,535 were registered in the last twelve months. Sole traders and ordinary partnerships are not on the register, so there are more wholesale businesses than this.

Registered since 1 November

225 new wholesale companies so far in November.

Newest first, updated every night.

The 20 most recent of 225 wholesale companies registered in the UK, 1 to 12 November 2026.
CompanyTownRegistered
ROYKATA GROUP LIMITEDAberdeen12 November 2026
NC DISTRIBUTION LTDEnniskillen12 November 2026
LASHTON LIMITEDOldham12 November 2026
GZO TRADING LTDMargate12 November 2026
ZIGZAGS ENTERPRISE LTDOldham12 November 2026
ZAHRIX LTDWembley12 November 2026
AL HABIB TRADING ENTERPRISE LTDWembley12 November 2026
HUZIFY DIGITAL LTDIlford12 November 2026
GLOBAL TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTDLondon12 November 2026
ARCTIC TRADERZ LIMITEDPreston12 November 2026
MFR GROUP LTDBolton12 November 2026
THE NEW ENGLISH TRADING COMPANY LTDSouthend-on-Sea12 November 2026
VALLY INTERNATIONAL LTDLondon12 November 2026
CURALINE MEDICAL SUPPLIES LTDIpswich12 November 2026
EASTMERE CONSULTING LTDMilton Keynes12 November 2026
LOT ROOFING SUPPLIES LTDBexhill on Sea12 November 2026
RUTVANA LTDNottingham12 November 2026
HAMEE LTDLuton11 November 2026
REATT LTDLuton11 November 2026
MERIDIAN TRADE ALLIANCE LIMITEDLondon11 November 2026

And 205 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 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 5,462 wholesale companies registered across 634 towns, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026.
Company Town Registered
ACTIVATE AI LTD Epsom 30 October 2026
ALDERMONT TRADING LIMITED Southampton 30 October 2026
AXW LTD Coventry 30 October 2026
CRAFT KREATIVELY LTD Stoke-on-Trent 30 October 2026
DEGRENVILLE & CO LTD Torquay 30 October 2026
DUBAI TRADE HOUSE LTD Hayes 30 October 2026
FPK COLLECTIVE LTD Basingstoke 30 October 2026
HIGHER POWER COMMERCE LTD Huddersfield 30 October 2026
KK WHOLSALE LIMITED Burton-on-Trent 30 October 2026
KOZZY TRADE LTD Bradford 30 October 2026
LANCSTECH LIMITED Blackburn 30 October 2026
MJP INTERNATIONAL PVT LIMITED London 30 October 2026
PRIME BOLT FASTENERS LTD Erith 30 October 2026
RONAY HOLDINGS LIMITED Glasgow 30 October 2026
SEAUNITE IMPORT & EXPORT TRADING LIMITED London 30 October 2026
SOURCE STOCKS LTD London 30 October 2026
TAPEIT INTERNATIONAL LTD Gravesend 30 October 2026
TAYO TRADE AFRICA LIMITED Mitcham 30 October 2026
VENTORA RETAIL GROUP LTD Potters Bar 30 October 2026
VESPERANT LTD London 30 October 2026
ATLAS BGM LIMITED Abergavenny 29 October 2026
AVERONA DIGITAL LTD Gravesend 29 October 2026
CROITO ENTERPRISE LTD Romford 29 October 2026
DOCK AND STONE LIMITED Worthing 29 October 2026
ELOWEN BEAUTY LIMITED Sheffield 29 October 2026
F&Q LIVING LIMITED Birmingham 29 October 2026
HOMVORA LTD Birmingham 29 October 2026
KLOZA TECHNOLOGIES UK LTD Ilford 29 October 2026
METALS CAPITAL UK LTD Pontypool 29 October 2026
MONTARQUE LTD Dagenham 29 October 2026
NXT STERLING LTD Enfield 29 October 2026
OXSTOCKS LTD Oxford 29 October 2026
PINK MAPLE LTD London 29 October 2026
PLUS DROPSHIPPING LTD Brentwood 29 October 2026
POLYHAUS LTD London 29 October 2026
RENO HOME SOLUTIONS LTD Hounslow 29 October 2026
SMOOTH EXOTIC LIMITED Bolton 29 October 2026
SSK TRADE LTD Glasgow 29 October 2026
STURDX UK LTD London 29 October 2026
YETY LTD Leamington Spa 29 October 2026
ZENTORO INDUSTRIES LTD Belfast 29 October 2026
ZORVEL LIMITED Sittingbourne 29 October 2026
ASH PHONIQ LTD Leeds 28 October 2026
CURATED ESSENTIALS LTD Solihull 28 October 2026
DE-PH MEDIA LIMITED Teddington 28 October 2026
GEORGERUD LTD London 28 October 2026
GRAMINA LTD Milton Keynes 28 October 2026
PLAYPADI BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LTD Derby 28 October 2026
RAFFLEPLACE LTD Newcastle upon Tyne 28 October 2026
RIGEL DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED Rainham 28 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 wholesale companies across the UK. The busiest month was September on 567. The quietest was December on 360.

New wholesale companies in the UK, by month

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026 · 5,535 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.

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 October only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to October 2026 4,741 New wholesale companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 4,323 Up 10% year on year
2025, the last full year 5,117 Against 561 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 wholesale companies: 40 of them, covering 58% 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 Oct 2026 Last 12 months Relative twelve-month volume
London 95 973
Manchester 15 219
Birmingham 13 207
Leicester 10 123
Luton 15 117
Harrow 9 100
Glasgow 11 89
Ilford 6 78
Nottingham 9 66
Bolton 9 62
Milton Keynes 10 61
Liverpool 4 60
Bradford 6 55
Coventry 3 54
Leeds 5 53
Slough 4 49
Preston 7 48
Wembley 1 46
Sheffield 8 45
Southall 0 43
Bristol 1 42
Derby 2 42
Hounslow 2 41
Wolverhampton 2 41
Newcastle upon Tyne 6 39
Dagenham 8 36
Cardiff 4 34
Croydon 3 34
Stoke-on-Trent 3 34
Barking 6 33
Blackburn 3 31
Edinburgh 0 31
Salford 3 29
Middlesbrough 1 28
Peterborough 2 28
Enfield 2 27
Reading 0 27
Oldham 0 26
Walsall 1 26
Belfast 1 24
United Kingdom, all towns 501 5,535

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, with a link to that month's list and its price. Nothing to buy unless you want the list, and one click to stop.