Computers & peripherals
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
1791
Active companies
1184
Formed in latest 12 months
144
Median active-company age
7.8 years
Revenue known
38
Importers
254
Exporters
224
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 1,791 |
| Active companies | 1,184 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 144 |
| Importers | 254 |
| Exporters | 224 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 38 known, 1146 unknown (3.2%).
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 | 20 |
| 2025-12 | 12 | 10 |
| 2026-01 | 17 | 18 |
| 2026-02 | 16 | 25 |
| 2026-03 | 10 | 21 |
| 2026-04 | 10 | 11 |
| 2026-05 | 11 | 17 |
| 2026-06 | 9 | 10 |
| 2026-07 | 11 | 24 |
| 2026-08 | 10 | 8 |
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 | 969 |
| Dissolved | 589 |
| Dormant | 215 |
| Liquidation | 16 |
| In Administration | 1 |
| Insolvency Proceedings | 1 |
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 | 109 |
| Inner London - East | 84 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 72 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 71 |
| Shropshire and Staffordshire | 55 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 50 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 49 |
| West Midlands | 46 |
| Greater Manchester | 43 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 41 |
Geography coverage: 1179 known, 5 unknown (99.6%).
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 | 521 |
| 1m-15m | 159 |
| 15m-54m | 14 |
| 54m+ | 45 |
Revenue-range coverage: 739 known, 445 unknown (62.4%).
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 | 335 |
| Small | 308 |
| Medium | 6 |
| Large | 61 |
| Holding | 15 |
| Dormant | 215 |
Company-size coverage: 940 known, 244 unknown (79.4%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 219 |
| 1–9 | 368 |
| 10–49 | 68 |
| 50–249 | 9 |
| 250+ | 1 |
Employee coverage: 665 known, 519 unknown (56.2%).
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 | 141 |
| 1–3 years | 241 |
| 3–5 years | 97 |
| 5–10 years | 185 |
| 10–20 years | 200 |
| 20+ years | 320 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 1184 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 | 1,184 |
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 | 51 |
| Exporter only | 21 |
| Both | 203 |
| Neither | 909 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 230 | £100,419,729,384 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 188 | £60,039,744,413 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 136 | £10,144,427,215 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 63 | £2,870,965,249 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 46 | £2,783,732,893 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 46 | £611,496,347 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 95 — Toys, games, and sports equipment | 46 | £1,647,633,997 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 44 | £4,579,696,656 | 2016-05-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 76 — Aluminum and aluminum products | 43 | £1,002,136,120 | 2016-04-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 38 | £4,855,092,484 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 190 | £35,029,908,589 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 179 | £22,877,023,000 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 122 | £6,931,247,373 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 48 | £551,363,383 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 95 — Toys, games, and sports equipment | 41 | £672,031,478 | 2016-05-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 37 | £1,026,425,047 | 2016-06-01 – 2025-11-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 26 | £526,158,555 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 21 | £1,747,909,328 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 21 | £96,328,810 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 88 — Aircraft, spacecraft, and their parts | 21 | £13,993,028,008 | 2016-08-01 – 2026-05-01 |
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 | 93 | 992 | 192 | 83.8% |
| Holding company | 0 | 992 | 192 | 83.8% |
| Solo founder | 532 | 992 | 192 | 83.8% |
| Ecommerce | 43 | 200 | 984 | 16.9% |
| Website | 240 | 243 | 941 | 20.5% |
| 204 | 243 | 941 | 20.5% |
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 |
|---|---|
| Origin Storage Limited | £23,992,919 |
| Benq Uk Limited | £22,017,493 |
| Magicard Ltd | £20,426,818 |
| Akhter Computers Limited | £19,015,598 |
| Roland Dg (u.k.) Limited | £18,925,124 |
| Riso (u.k.) Limited | £17,934,944 |
| Impulse Embedded Limited | £16,503,005 |
| Daco Scientific Limited | £14,590,289 |
| Topline Electronics Limited | £13,776,445 |
| Evertz Uk Limited | £13,014,835 |
Revenue coverage: 38 known, 1146 unknown (3.2%).
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 |
|---|---|
| Metal products | 25,070 |
| Foods | 24,449 |
| Other manufacturing n.e.c. | 19,696 |
| Wood products (ex furniture) | 12,012 |
| Printing | 11,870 |
| Furniture | 10,690 |
| Apparel | 10,563 |
| Machinery | 10,295 |
| Chemical products | 9,027 |
| Vehicles | 7,373 |
| Textiles | 7,345 |
| Beverages | 7,084 |
| Electrical equipment | 6,917 |
| Rubber & plastic products | 6,552 |
| Jewellery | 4,490 |
| Medical and dental instruments & supplies | 3,358 |
| Paper products | 3,116 |
| Measuring and testing equipment | 2,751 |
| Sports goods | 2,369 |
| Games and toys | 2,353 |
| Other | 23,749 |
SIC classification
SIC 26200 — Manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment
Includes
manufacture of desktop computers, manufacture of laptop computers, manufacture of main frame computers, manufacture of hand-held computers (e.g. PDA), manufacture of magnetic disk drives, flash drives and other storage devices, manufacture of optical (e.g. CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW) disk drives, manufacture of printers, manufacture of monitors, manufacture of keyboards, manufacture of all types of mice, joysticks, and trackball accessories, manufacture of dedicated computer terminals, manufacture of computer servers, manufacture of scanners, including bar code scanners, manufacture of smart card readers, manufacture of virtual reality helmets, manufacture of computer projectors (video beamers), manufacture of computer terminals, like automatic teller machines (ATMs), point-of-sale (POS) terminals, not mechanically operated, manufacture of multi-function office equipment performing two or more of following functions: printing, scanning, copying, faxing
Excludes
reproduction of recorded media (computer media, sound, video, etc.), see ##18.20, manufacture of electronic components and electronic assemblies used in computers and peripherals, see ##26.1, manufacture of internal/external computer modems, see ##26.12, manufacture of interface cards, modules and assemblies, see ##26.12, manufacture of loaded electronic boards, see ##26.12, manufacture of modems, carrier equipment, see ##26.30, manufacture of digital communication switches, data communications equipment (e.g. bridges, routers, gateways), see ##26.30, manufacture of consumer electronic devices, such as CD players and DVD players, see ##26.40, manufacture of television monitors and displays, see ##26.40, manufacture of video game consoles, see ##26.40, manufacture of blank optical and magnetic media for use with computers or other devices, see ##26.80