Prepared meals and dishes
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
2177
Active companies
1344
Formed in latest 12 months
240
Median active-company age
4.2 years
Revenue known
44
Importers
107
Exporters
47
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 2,177 |
| Active companies | 1,344 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 240 |
| Importers | 107 |
| Exporters | 47 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 44 known, 1300 unknown (3.3%).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12 | 22 | 24 |
| 2026-01 | 18 | 28 |
| 2026-02 | 14 | 25 |
| 2026-03 | 18 | 16 |
| 2026-04 | 16 | 18 |
| 2026-05 | 17 | 10 |
| 2026-06 | 16 | 20 |
| 2026-07 | 28 | 70 |
| 2026-08 | 25 | 29 |
| 2026-09 | 23 | 21 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-09.
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 | 1,163 |
| Dissolved | 794 |
| Dormant | 181 |
| Liquidation | 36 |
| In Administration | 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 - East | 127 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 93 |
| Inner London - West | 86 |
| West Midlands | 75 |
| Greater Manchester | 59 |
| Outer London - East and North East | 58 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 51 |
| West Yorkshire | 50 |
| Northern Ireland | 47 |
| Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire | 42 |
Geography coverage: 1328 known, 16 unknown (98.8%).
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 | 603 |
| 1m-15m | 125 |
| 15m-54m | 25 |
| 54m+ | 30 |
Revenue-range coverage: 783 known, 561 unknown (58.3%).
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 | 379 |
| Small | 322 |
| Medium | 9 |
| Large | 48 |
| Holding | 10 |
| Dormant | 181 |
Company-size coverage: 949 known, 395 unknown (70.6%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 191 |
| 1–9 | 399 |
| 10–49 | 88 |
| 50–249 | 30 |
| 250+ | 7 |
Employee coverage: 715 known, 629 unknown (53.2%).
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 | 232 |
| 1–3 years | 329 |
| 3–5 years | 165 |
| 5–10 years | 345 |
| 10–20 years | 182 |
| 20+ years | 91 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 1344 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 |
|---|---|
| 10850 | 1,344 |
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 | 66 |
| Exporter only | 6 |
| Both | 41 |
| Neither | 1,231 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 63 | £11,500,019,542 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 47 | £4,049,307,156 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 41 | £860,264,258 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 20 — Prepared or preserved plant-based foods | 35 | £930,835,275 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 19 — Cereal and milk-based food products | 30 | £1,946,615,409 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 21 — Miscellaneous food products | 30 | £2,426,492,206 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 30 | £10,012,653,445 | 2016-03-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 24 | £1,447,151,397 | 2017-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 16 — Meat, fish, and seafood preparations | 21 | £937,816,013 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 07 — Edible Vegetables and Roots | 16 | £511,601,473 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 — Miscellaneous food products | 28 | £1,708,547,186 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 19 — Cereal and milk-based food products | 26 | £531,537,668 | 2016-03-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 20 — Prepared or preserved plant-based foods | 24 | £64,118,479 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 16 — Meat, fish, and seafood preparations | 16 | £55,560,029 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 15 | £999,635,278 | 2017-01-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 13 | £659,713,112 | 2016-05-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 13 | £108,062,932 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 10 | £703,651,777 | 2021-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 9 | £440,190,093 | 2019-06-01 – 2026-02-01 |
| 07 — Edible Vegetables and Roots | 6 | £12,591,018 | 2017-04-01 – 2026-04-01 |
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 | 106 | 1,181 | 163 | 87.9% |
| Holding company | 0 | 1,181 | 163 | 87.9% |
| Solo founder | 681 | 1,181 | 163 | 87.9% |
| Ecommerce | 18 | 73 | 1,271 | 5.4% |
| Website | 87 | 89 | 1,255 | 6.6% |
| 68 | 89 | 1,255 | 6.6% |
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 |
|---|---|
| David Wood Baking Limited | £94,736,599 |
| Pro-pak Foods Limited | £58,412,180 |
| Pasta Evangelists Ltd | £33,192,950 |
| Prep Kitchen Limited | £32,882,007 |
| Innovate Foods Limited | £27,673,464 |
| Bombay Halwa Limited | £26,748,322 |
| Farmhouse Potato Bakers Limited | £26,417,658 |
| Natural Innovations Limited | £25,679,661 |
| Little & Cull Ltd | £25,142,438 |
| Mash Direct Limited | £23,950,778 |
Revenue coverage: 44 known, 1300 unknown (3.3%).
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 |
|---|---|
| Other (not elswhere classified) | 7,022 |
| Bread, pastry, cakes | 5,758 |
| Coffee and coffee substitutes | 1,866 |
| Condiments and seasonings | 1,066 |
| Processed meat & poultry | 1,060 |
| Buscuits, rusks, crackers and similar | 962 |
| Chocolate and cocoa | 943 |
| Fruits & vegetable products | 933 |
| Ice cream | 826 |
| Raw meats | 771 |
| Homogenized food, dietetic food | 672 |
| Juices | 665 |
| Sugar confectionery | 542 |
| Fish & sea products | 471 |
| Tea | 468 |
| Breakfast cereals and similar | 346 |
| Butter & cheese | 313 |
| Oils (vegetable, animal and fish) & fats | 303 |
| Yoghurts, dry milk, other milk products | 297 |
| Raw poultry | 270 |
| Other | 682 |
SIC classification
SIC 10850 — Manufacture of prepared meals and dishes
Includes
manufacture of meat or poultry dishes, manufacture of fish dishes, including fish and chips, manufacture of vegetable dishes, manufacture of frozen or otherwise preserved pizza, manufacture of local and national dishes
Excludes
manufacture of fresh foods or foods with less than two ingredients, see corresponding class in division ##10, manufacture of perishable prepared foods, see ##10.89, retail sale of prepared meals and dishes in stores, see ##47.11, ##47.29, wholesale of prepared meals and dishes, see ##46.38, activities of food service contractors, see ##56.29