Film processing
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
1920
Active companies
1229
Formed in latest 12 months
171
Median active-company age
3.7 years
Revenue known
16
Importers
11
Exporters
3
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 1,920 |
| Active companies | 1,229 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 171 |
| Importers | 11 |
| Exporters | 3 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 16 known, 1213 unknown (1.3%).
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 | 15 | 24 |
| 2025-12 | 11 | 18 |
| 2026-01 | 19 | 21 |
| 2026-02 | 11 | 23 |
| 2026-03 | 15 | 20 |
| 2026-04 | 12 | 17 |
| 2026-05 | 8 | 37 |
| 2026-06 | 6 | 18 |
| 2026-07 | 14 | 33 |
| 2026-08 | 3 | 17 |
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 | 1,060 |
| Dissolved | 684 |
| Dormant | 169 |
| Liquidation | 7 |
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 | 190 |
| Inner London - West | 143 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 109 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 72 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 64 |
| West Midlands | 57 |
| Outer London - East and North East | 56 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 55 |
| Outer London - South | 40 |
| Greater Manchester | 35 |
Geography coverage: 1217 known, 12 unknown (99.0%).
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 | 707 |
| 1m-15m | 47 |
| 15m-54m | 2 |
Revenue-range coverage: 756 known, 473 unknown (61.5%).
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 | 479 |
| Small | 238 |
| Large | 1 |
| Holding | 2 |
| Dormant | 169 |
Company-size coverage: 889 known, 340 unknown (72.3%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 217 |
| 1–9 | 496 |
| 10–49 | 5 |
| 250+ | 1 |
Employee coverage: 719 known, 510 unknown (58.5%).
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 | 163 |
| 1–3 years | 369 |
| 3–5 years | 228 |
| 5–10 years | 343 |
| 10–20 years | 98 |
| 20+ years | 28 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 1229 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 | 1,229 |
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 | 9 |
| Exporter only | 1 |
| Both | 2 |
| Neither | 1,217 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 5 | £92,852,670 | 2019-07-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 37 — Photographic and Cinematographic Goods | 4 | £4,833,502 | 2020-03-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 4 | £275,189,541 | 2016-03-01 – 2026-02-01 |
| 61 — Clothing and accessories made by knitting or crocheting | 3 | £360,611,406 | 2020-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 3 | £689,800,239 | 2016-06-01 – 2025-08-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 2 | £316,013,405 | 2016-07-01 – 2025-08-01 |
| 42 — Leather goods, travel bags, and animal harnesses | 2 | £54,411,642 | 2016-01-01 – 2024-11-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 2 | £79,743,047 | 2016-01-01 – 2025-11-01 |
| 49 — Printed materials like books, newspapers, and pictures | 2 | £91,794,292 | 2017-02-01 – 2024-10-01 |
| 56 — Textile padding, felt, and nonwoven fabrics; special yarns; ropes and cables | 2 | £4,033,426 | 2022-05-01 – 2024-07-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 2 | £35,059,273 | 2021-04-01 – 2023-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 2 | £57,617,286 | 2021-01-01 – 2026-01-01 |
| 37 — Photographic and Cinematographic Goods | 1 | £2,582,210 | 2023-03-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 44 — Wood and Wood Products | 1 | £647,161 | 2020-01-01 – 2020-01-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 1 | £8,222,789 | 2016-06-01 – 2024-05-01 |
| 49 — Printed materials like books, newspapers, and pictures | 1 | £187,339,766 | 2019-06-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 76 — Aluminum and aluminum products | 1 | £14,043,112 | 2025-03-01 – 2025-03-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 1 | £256,994 | 2023-02-01 – 2023-02-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 1 | £10,054,052 | 2016-12-01 – 2021-04-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 1 | £0 | 2016-01-01 – 2016-01-01 |
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 | 53 | 1,172 | 57 | 95.4% |
| Holding company | 0 | 1,172 | 57 | 95.4% |
| Solo founder | 840 | 1,172 | 57 | 95.4% |
| Ecommerce | 7 | 11 | 1,218 | 0.9% |
| Website | 11 | 11 | 1,218 | 0.9% |
| 3 | 11 | 1,218 | 0.9% |
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 |
|---|---|
| Electric Theatre Collective Holdings Limited | £18,022,361 |
| Neomtechnologyuk Ltd | £867,271 |
| Press Play Films C.i.c. | £85,057 |
| Specialist Medical Assistance Ltd | £82,450 |
| The Reno Edit Ltd | £80,884 |
| Ms Hobbies Limited | £77,074 |
| Area51 Labs Ltd | £74,345 |
| Wonder Talent Management Ltd | £61,000 |
| Enroute X Limited | £55,564 |
| World Cinema Ltd | £51,284 |
Revenue coverage: 16 known, 1213 unknown (1.3%).
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 |
|---|---|
| Management consluting | 286,918 |
| Professional services n.e.c. | 84,933 |
| Advertising agencies | 55,985 |
| Creative and Industrial Design | 52,136 |
| Accounting and audit | 45,262 |
| Non-trading company | 41,498 |
| Non-industrial engineering | 40,843 |
| Geospatial services | 35,954 |
| Head office services | 31,140 |
| Bookkeeping | 25,813 |
| Financial management | 22,820 |
| Architechts | 21,406 |
| Public relations | 16,729 |
| Media sales | 14,640 |
| Scientific and technical R&D | 14,017 |
| Environmental consulting | 13,974 |
| Tax consulting | 13,408 |
| Industrial engineering | 12,782 |
| Solicitors | 12,514 |
| Copyright agents | 10,446 |
| Other | 72,117 |
SIC classification
SIC 74203 — Film processing
Includes
developing, printing and enlarging from client-taken negatives or cine-films, film developing and photo printing laboratories, one hour photo shops (not part of camera stores), mounting of slides, copying and restoring or transparency retouching in connection with photographs
Excludes
processing motion picture film related to the motion picture and television industries, see ##59.12