Non-trading company
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
54126
Active companies
41550
Formed in latest 12 months
1046
Median active-company age
19.8 years
Revenue known
172
Importers
268
Exporters
190
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 54,126 |
| Active companies | 41,550 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 1,046 |
| Importers | 268 |
| Exporters | 190 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 172 known, 41378 unknown (0.4%).
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 | 97 | 545 |
| 2025-12 | 72 | 475 |
| 2026-01 | 88 | 402 |
| 2026-02 | 70 | 425 |
| 2026-03 | 96 | 401 |
| 2026-04 | 81 | 330 |
| 2026-05 | 76 | 431 |
| 2026-06 | 66 | 336 |
| 2026-07 | 87 | 684 |
| 2026-08 | 23 | 270 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-08.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values; blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Active | 41,550 |
| Dissolved | 11,968 |
| Liquidation | 557 |
| Receiver Action | 26 |
| In Administration | 14 |
| Converted / Closed | 9 |
| Voluntary Arrangement | 2 |
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 | 5,489 |
| Inner London - East | 2,579 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 2,339 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 1,982 |
| Greater Manchester | 1,793 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 1,659 |
| Cheshire | 1,484 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 1,423 |
| West Midlands | 1,334 |
| West Yorkshire | 1,146 |
Geography coverage: 41093 known, 457 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 | 10,491 |
| 1m-15m | 5,464 |
| 15m-54m | 185 |
| 54m+ | 1,201 |
Revenue-range coverage: 17341 known, 24209 unknown (41.7%).
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 | 6,601 |
| Small | 7,147 |
| Medium | 30 |
| Large | 1,266 |
| Holding | 533 |
| Dormant | 24,071 |
Company-size coverage: 39648 known, 1902 unknown (95.4%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 9,833 |
| 1–9 | 5,176 |
| 10–49 | 154 |
| 50–249 | 99 |
| 250+ | 22 |
Employee coverage: 15284 known, 26266 unknown (36.8%).
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 | 1,017 |
| 1–3 years | 1,950 |
| 3–5 years | 1,596 |
| 5–10 years | 4,552 |
| 10–20 years | 11,850 |
| 20+ years | 20,582 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 41547 known, 3 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 | 41,550 |
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 | 127 |
| Exporter only | 49 |
| Both | 141 |
| Neither | 41,233 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 136 | £41,716,121,718 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 125 | £32,352,843,155 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 93 | £7,071,201,673 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 69 | £4,573,901,362 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 68 | £7,844,063,970 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 65 | £4,125,099,216 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 50 | £783,734,730 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 40 | £865,923,405 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 40 | £4,840,726,781 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 40 — Rubber and rubber products | 37 | £938,356,203 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 103 | £12,692,660,203 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 92 | £12,507,927,738 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 68 | £6,015,490,607 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 48 | £1,838,058,586 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 45 | £2,947,554,278 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 41 | £2,319,850,244 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 38 | £479,079,878 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 40 — Rubber and rubber products | 34 | £479,336,987 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 29 | £230,373,281 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 82 — Basic metal tools and utensils | 29 | £103,058,171 | 2016-01-01 – 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
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 3,165 | 23,244 | 18,306 | 55.9% |
| Holding company | 11 | 23,244 | 18,306 | 55.9% |
| Solo founder | 8,038 | 23,244 | 18,306 | 55.9% |
| Ecommerce | 17 | 118 | 41,432 | 0.3% |
| Website | 144 | 152 | 41,398 | 0.4% |
| 104 | 152 | 41,398 | 0.4% |
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 |
|---|---|
| Hughes Family Holdings Limited | £70,726,279 |
| Clarkson Evans Holdings Limited | £67,903,804 |
| Dowds Electrical (holdings) Limited | £65,329,771 |
| Morro Group Limited | £57,887,170 |
| Farid Uk Limited | £46,847,486 |
| Barclays 1cp Leasing Limited | £44,213,751 |
| Barclays 1cp Properties Limited | £42,858,239 |
| New Ach Limited | £34,620,543 |
| Canute Management Services Limited | £33,753,421 |
| United Kingdom Oil Pipelines Limited | £33,488,230 |
Revenue coverage: 172 known, 41378 unknown (0.4%).
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 | 286,236 |
| Professional services n.e.c. | 84,880 |
| Advertising agencies | 55,749 |
| Creative and Industrial Design | 52,014 |
| Accounting and audit | 45,245 |
| Non-industrial engineering | 40,771 |
| Geospatial services | 35,836 |
| Head office services | 31,137 |
| Bookkeeping | 25,793 |
| Financial management | 22,809 |
| Architechts | 21,395 |
| Public relations | 16,725 |
| Media sales | 14,630 |
| Environmental consulting | 13,949 |
| Scientific and technical R&D | 13,941 |
| Tax consulting | 13,397 |
| Industrial engineering | 12,757 |
| Solicitors | 12,511 |
| Copyright agents | 10,418 |
| Specialist photography | 9,214 |
| Other | 64,040 |
SIC classification
SIC 74990 — Non-trading company
Includes
business brokerage activities, i.e. arranging for the purchase and sale of small and medium-sized businesses, including professional practices, but not including real estate brokerage, patent brokerage activities (arranging for the purchase and sale of patents), appraisal activities other than for real estate and insurance (for antiques, jewellery, etc.), bill auditing and freight rate information, weather forecasting activities, security consultants, agronomy consulting, other technical consulting, activities of consultants other than architecture, engineering, environment and management consultants, activities carried out by agents and agencies on behalf of individuals usually involving the obtaining of engagements in motion picture, theatrical production or other entertainment or sports attractions and the placement of books, plays, artworks, photographs etc., with publishers, producers etc.
Excludes
wholesale of used motor vehicles by auctioning, see ##45.1, online auction activities (retail), see ##47.91, activities of auctioning houses (retail), see ##47.79, activities of real estate brokers, see ##68.31, activities of environmental consultants, see ##74.90/1, activities of quantity surveyors, see ##74.90/2, bookkeeping activities, see ##69.20, activities of management consultants, see ##70.22, activities of architecture and engineering consultants, see ##71.1, industrial and machinery design, see ##71.12, ##74.10, veterinary testing and control in relation to food production, see ##71.20, display of advertisement and other advertising design, see ##73.11, creation of stands and other display structures and sites, see ##73.11, activities of convention and trade show organisers, see ##82.30, activities of independent auctioneers, see ##82.99, administration of loyalty programmes, see ##82.99, consumer credit and debt counselling, see ##88.99
Details
This section includes a variety of activities that support general business operations. These activities differ from those in section M, in that their primary purpose is not the transfer of specialised knowledge.