Wiring devices

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

162

Active companies

119

Formed in latest 12 months

6

Median active-company age

10.9 years

Revenue known

7

Importers

40

Exporters

40

Top values shown in the chart

CategoryCompanies
All companies 162
Active companies 119
Formed in latest 12 months 6
Importers 40
Exporters 40

Revenue coverage among active companies: 7 known, 112 unknown (5.9%).

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

MonthFormedDissolved
2025-1100
2025-1200
2026-0112
2026-0211
2026-0300
2026-0401
2026-0502
2026-0611
2026-0711
2026-0800

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

StatusCompanies
Active 103
Dissolved 42
Dormant 16
Liquidation 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 regionCompanies
Essex 8
Surrey, East and West Sussex 7
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 6
Hampshire and Isle of Wight 6
West Midlands 6
Inner London - East 5
Inner London - West 5
Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire 5
Outer London - South 5
Cheshire 4

Geography coverage: 118 known, 1 unknown (99.2%).

Revenue ranges

What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.

Top values shown in the chart

Revenue rangeCompanies
0-1m 60
1m-15m 27
15m-54m 1
54m+ 5

Revenue-range coverage: 93 known, 26 unknown (78.2%).

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 sizeCompanies
Micro 31
Small 50
Medium 2
Large 8
Dormant 16

Company-size coverage: 107 known, 12 unknown (89.9%).

Top values shown in the chart

EmployeesCompanies
0 23
1–9 42
10–49 15
50–249 5

Employee coverage: 85 known, 34 unknown (71.4%).

Active-company age

What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.

Top values shown in the chart

Age bandCompanies
Under 1 year 6
1–3 years 14
3–5 years 16
5–10 years 21
10–20 years 27
20+ years 35

Incorporation-date coverage: 119 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

ClassificationCompanies
27330 119

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 participationCompanies
Importer only 5
Exporter only 5
Both 35
Neither 74

Top imports HS2 categories

Top values shown in the chart

HS2 categoryCompaniesGBPAvailable dates
85 — Electrical machinery and equipment37£16,637,337,4942016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
90 — Optical and medical tools and devices24£1,658,966,9112016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts21£4,058,487,7942016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
73 — Iron or Steel Products15£970,802,7762016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
39 — Plastics and plastic products13£1,499,113,7322016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
82 — Basic metal tools and utensils12£118,179,5762016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
74 — Copper and copper products11£82,122,8122016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings11£845,918,2222016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams)10£1,942,023,1722016-01-01 – 2026-04-01
83 — Miscellaneous metal items9£147,641,2802016-01-01 – 2026-05-01

Top exports HS2 categories

Top values shown in the chart

HS2 categoryCompaniesGBPAvailable dates
85 — Electrical machinery and equipment38£5,849,458,5782016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
90 — Optical and medical tools and devices20£1,424,318,6882016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts18£3,361,162,0992016-03-01 – 2026-05-01
87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams)15£755,848,9632016-03-01 – 2026-05-01
73 — Iron or Steel Products11£487,689,6392017-01-01 – 2026-05-01
74 — Copper and copper products10£39,653,6802016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings10£155,147,4262016-02-01 – 2026-05-01
40 — Rubber and rubber products8£119,549,1632017-04-01 – 2026-05-01
39 — Plastics and plastic products7£649,948,7492016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
83 — Miscellaneous metal items7£16,569,2202016-01-01 – 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

TraitCompaniesKnownUnknownCoverage
Family business 18 98 21 82.4%
Holding company 0 98 21 82.4%
Solo founder 45 98 21 82.4%
Ecommerce 4 32 87 26.9%
Website 41 42 77 35.3%
LinkedIn 36 42 77 35.3%

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.

Revenue coverage: 7 known, 112 unknown (5.9%).

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.

SIC classification

SIC 27330 — Manufacture of wiring devices

Includes

manufacture of bus bars, electrical conductors (except switchgear-type), manufacture of GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupters), manufacture of lamp holders, manufacture of lightning arrestors and coils, manufacture of switches for electrical wiring (e.g. pressure, pushbutton, snap, tumbler switches), manufacture of electrical outlets or sockets, manufacture of boxes for electrical wiring (e.g. junction, outlet , switch boxes), manufacture of electrical conduit and fitting, manufacture of transmission pole and line hardware, manufacture of plastic non-current carrying wiring devices including plastic junction boxes, face plates and similar, plastic pole line fittings and switch covers

Excludes

manufacture of ceramic insulators, see ##23.43, manufacture of electronic component-type connectors, sockets, and switches, see ##26.11

Details

This class includes the manufacture of electric light bulbs and tubes, and parts and components thereof (except glass blanks for electric light bulbs), electric lighting fixtures and lighting fixture components (except current-carrying devices).