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UK New Companies by Sector

Companies incorporated each month in the five largest SIC 2007 sections by their first SIC code

Wholesale and retail trade: 14,526 in Sep 2026−4,235 since Sep 2023

1 of 5 series is above their level a year earlier

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Current·Data to Sep 2026

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Wholesale and retail trade · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days

Real estate · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days

Professional, scientific and technical · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days

Information and communication · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days

Continuation isn't available for Construction: Charts project up to 4 series.

Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. A projection, not a promise.

Palanor count from Companies House Basic Company Data, the monthly snapshot of every live body on the register: companies, limited liability partnerships, limited partnerships, charitable incorporated organisations and overseas entities. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The sector is the first SIC code a company declares when it registers.

Which industries new UK companies are being formed in, month by month, from the SIC codes companies give Companies House when they register.

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UK New Companies · Wholesale and Retail Trade (Monthly). Source: Palanor calculation from Companies House Basic Company Data, the monthly snapshot of every live body on the register (download.companieshouse.gov.uk), from the snapshot of October 2023; regions from the registered-office postcode with the ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (Great Britain; Northern Ireland postcodes by their BT prefix). Companies House data and NSPL: Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Companies House; Palanor calculation.

UK New Companies · Real Estate (Monthly). Source: Palanor calculation from Companies House Basic Company Data, the monthly snapshot of every live body on the register (download.companieshouse.gov.uk), from the snapshot of October 2023; regions from the registered-office postcode with the ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (Great Britain; Northern Ireland postcodes by their BT prefix). Companies House data and NSPL: Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Companies House; Palanor calculation.

UK New Companies · Professional, Scientific and Technical (Monthly). Source: Palanor calculation from Companies House Basic Company Data, the monthly snapshot of every live body on the register (download.companieshouse.gov.uk), from the snapshot of October 2023; regions from the registered-office postcode with the ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (Great Britain; Northern Ireland postcodes by their BT prefix). Companies House data and NSPL: Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Companies House; Palanor calculation.

UK New Companies · Information and Communication (Monthly). Source: Palanor calculation from Companies House Basic Company Data, the monthly snapshot of every live body on the register (download.companieshouse.gov.uk), from the snapshot of October 2023; regions from the registered-office postcode with the ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (Great Britain; Northern Ireland postcodes by their BT prefix). Companies House data and NSPL: Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Companies House; Palanor calculation.

UK New Companies · Construction (Monthly). Source: Palanor calculation from Companies House Basic Company Data, the monthly snapshot of every live body on the register (download.companieshouse.gov.uk), from the snapshot of October 2023; regions from the registered-office postcode with the ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (Great Britain; Northern Ireland postcodes by their BT prefix). Companies House data and NSPL: Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Companies House; Palanor calculation.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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