Archives
UK companies organised by the CorpSignals industry, segment, and subsegment taxonomy.
Company snapshot
What this shows: the size and current activity of this classification, plus recent formations, company age, revenue coverage, and trade participation.
All companies
1022
Active companies
814
Formed in latest 12 months
92
Median active-company age
10.1 years
Revenue known
43
Importers
14
Exporters
11
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 1,022 |
| Active companies | 814 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 92 |
| Importers | 14 |
| Exporters | 11 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 43 known, 771 unknown (5.3%).
Company formations
What this shows: monthly incorporations and dissolutions from 1 January 2024, including companies of every current status.
Latest ten months shown in the chart
| Month | Formed | Dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11 | 8 | 7 |
| 2025-12 | 5 | 9 |
| 2026-01 | 9 | 10 |
| 2026-02 | 3 | 13 |
| 2026-03 | 12 | 8 |
| 2026-04 | 12 | 8 |
| 2026-05 | 8 | 6 |
| 2026-06 | 8 | 4 |
| 2026-07 | 8 | 9 |
| 2026-08 | 5 | 4 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-08.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values. Companies House Active records with dormant accounts are shown as Dormant; the remaining Companies House Active records are shown as Active. Blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Active | 721 |
| Dissolved | 198 |
| Dormant | 93 |
| Liquidation | 7 |
| Converted / Closed | 3 |
Active companies by UK region
What this shows: active companies with a known ITL2 region. The UK map falls back to a bar chart if map data cannot be loaded.
Top values shown in the chart
| ITL2 region | Companies |
|---|---|
| Inner London - West | 106 |
| Inner London - East | 94 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 40 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 39 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 35 |
| Kent | 29 |
| Outer London - East and North East | 24 |
| Essex | 21 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 20 |
| Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire | 19 |
Geography coverage: 805 known, 9 unknown (98.9%).
Revenue ranges
What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.
Top values shown in the chart
| Revenue range | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0-1m | 422 |
| 1m-15m | 127 |
| 54m+ | 7 |
Revenue-range coverage: 556 known, 258 unknown (68.3%).
Company size and employees
What this shows: active companies by published size category and by reported employee count.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company size | Companies |
|---|---|
| Micro | 229 |
| Small | 311 |
| Large | 11 |
| Holding | 26 |
| Dormant | 93 |
Company-size coverage: 670 known, 144 unknown (82.3%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 195 |
| 1–9 | 208 |
| 10–49 | 16 |
| 50–249 | 3 |
Employee coverage: 422 known, 392 unknown (51.8%).
Active-company age
What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.
Top values shown in the chart
| Age band | Companies |
|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 92 |
| 1–3 years | 119 |
| 3–5 years | 64 |
| 5–10 years | 130 |
| 10–20 years | 161 |
| 20+ years | 248 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 814 known, 0 unknown (100.0%).
Classification breakdown
What this shows: active companies across the next taxonomy level; direct assignments are labelled separately. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Directly assigned to this segment | 814 |
International trade
What this shows: active-company participation in imports and exports, followed by the ten HS2 categories involving the most distinct companies.
Top values shown in the chart
| Trade participation | Companies |
|---|---|
| Importer only | 6 |
| Exporter only | 3 |
| Both | 8 |
| Neither | 797 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97 — Art and Antiques | 7 | £388,060,001 | 2021-07-01 – 2026-01-01 |
| 49 — Printed materials like books, newspapers, and pictures | 2 | £64,568,876 | 2023-12-01 – 2025-08-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 2 | £127,883,848 | 2022-01-01 – 2025-03-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 2 | £581,110,654 | 2022-06-01 – 2024-12-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 2 | £6,301,917 | 2020-11-01 – 2022-12-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 2 | £23,630,286 | 2023-08-01 – 2025-08-01 |
| 38 — Miscellaneous chemical products | 1 | £37,497,893 | 2025-05-01 – 2025-12-01 |
| 61 — Clothing and accessories made by knitting or crocheting | 1 | £5,068,392 | 2024-05-01 – 2025-10-01 |
| 62 — Clothing and accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 1 | £135,179,965 | 2022-01-01 – 2025-10-01 |
| 82 — Basic metal tools and utensils | 1 | £361,017 | 2019-01-01 – 2019-01-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49 — Printed materials like books, newspapers, and pictures | 3 | £32,102,545 | 2021-08-01 – 2025-09-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 3 | £103,239,968 | 2017-06-01 – 2025-08-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 3 | £264,042,550 | 2017-06-01 – 2025-08-01 |
| 97 — Art and Antiques | 3 | £98,941,102 | 2022-04-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 42 — Leather goods, travel bags, and animal harnesses | 1 | £16,310,654 | 2026-05-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 52 — Cotton products | 1 | £137,810 | 2021-08-01 – 2025-08-01 |
| 54 — Man-made filaments and related materials | 1 | £293,406 | 2022-06-01 – 2024-08-01 |
| 55 — Man-made staple fibers | 1 | £625,147 | 2021-02-01 – 2025-01-01 |
| 58 — Special woven and decorative fabrics | 1 | £94,031 | 2021-08-01 – 2024-03-01 |
| 62 — Clothing and accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 1 | £11,282,986 | 2020-10-01 – 2024-06-01 |
Business and digital traits
What this shows: active companies identified with selected ownership, business-model, and online-presence traits.
Values shown in the chart with data coverage
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 34 | 543 | 271 | 66.7% |
| Holding company | 0 | 543 | 271 | 66.7% |
| Solo founder | 224 | 543 | 271 | 66.7% |
| Ecommerce | 2 | 12 | 802 | 1.5% |
| Website | 14 | 14 | 800 | 1.7% |
| 6 | 14 | 800 | 1.7% |
Leading active companies
What this shows: the ten active companies with the highest non-missing revenue, with company number used as the deterministic tie-breaker.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| The Hill Company Limited | £9,448,989 |
| Historic Newspapers Limited | £8,129,498 |
| The Sainsbury Archive | £293,743 |
| Pembridge Barn Store Limited | £105,963 |
| Connect-conserve Cymru / Cyswllt-cadwraeth Cymru Community Interest Company | £88,271 |
| Transformedia Culture C.i.c. | £74,276 |
| On The Record Community Interest Company | £70,838 |
| World Squash Library Cic | £46,317 |
| Richard Milner Limited | £42,679 |
| June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive C.i.c. | £42,278 |
Revenue coverage: 43 known, 771 unknown (5.3%).
Related classifications
What this shows: sibling classifications ranked by distinct active companies, excluding the current node. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Artistic creation | 44,059 |
| Other sports | 31,533 |
| Performing arts | 26,382 |
| Other recreation n.e.c. | 25,216 |
| Art support | 22,048 |
| Fitness | 17,428 |
| Sport clubs | 12,204 |
| Sports facilities | 9,781 |
| Art facilities | 6,291 |
| Museums | 1,615 |
| Gambling | 1,600 |
| Historical sites | 1,463 |
| Zoo & gardens | 1,039 |
| Amusement parks | 932 |
| Horseracing | 682 |
| Libraries | 546 |
SIC classification
SIC 91012 — Archives activities
Includes
archive activities are about managing a unique accumulation of records (which can be paper, parchment, audio visual, digital) representing the transactions of an individual, family, organisation (including records of government, courts, businesses, charities) or society, appraising and selecting archives to be kept for posterity on the basis of their continuing value as primary source material documenting the culture and history of an individual, organisation and society, preserving/conserving archive records (ranging in age from 1000 years old to 21st century emails) protecting them from the main threats (poor environmental conditions, theft), making available archives of all kinds to general public or to a special clientele such as students, scientists, through providing physical access in search rooms or remote access via the Internet, documenting archives according to the way they were organically created maintaining the original order, links between records and evidence of provenance., managing and implementing information policy (such as Freedom of Information, Data Protection, and enabling citizens to exercise their rights to access information), and managing current records