Wired
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
6094
Active companies
4300
Formed in latest 12 months
366
Median active-company age
7.6 years
Revenue known
97
Importers
154
Exporters
95
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 6,094 |
| Active companies | 4,300 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 366 |
| Importers | 154 |
| Exporters | 95 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 97 known, 4203 unknown (2.3%).
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 | 24 | 53 |
| 2025-12 | 25 | 61 |
| 2026-01 | 43 | 41 |
| 2026-02 | 27 | 43 |
| 2026-03 | 38 | 64 |
| 2026-04 | 34 | 45 |
| 2026-05 | 33 | 44 |
| 2026-06 | 21 | 53 |
| 2026-07 | 17 | 75 |
| 2026-08 | 17 | 40 |
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 | 3,840 |
| Dissolved | 1,670 |
| Dormant | 460 |
| Liquidation | 112 |
| In Administration | 8 |
| Insolvency Proceedings | 3 |
| Voluntary Arrangement | 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 | 301 |
| Inner London - East | 284 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 224 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 206 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 203 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 175 |
| Greater Manchester | 173 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 167 |
| Outer London - East and North East | 158 |
| West Midlands | 151 |
Geography coverage: 4232 known, 68 unknown (98.4%).
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 | 2,702 |
| 1m-15m | 476 |
| 15m-54m | 29 |
| 54m+ | 54 |
Revenue-range coverage: 3261 known, 1039 unknown (75.8%).
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 | 1,638 |
| Small | 1,430 |
| Medium | 6 |
| Large | 86 |
| Holding | 25 |
| Dormant | 460 |
Company-size coverage: 3645 known, 655 unknown (84.8%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 701 |
| 1–9 | 2,152 |
| 10–49 | 201 |
| 50–249 | 28 |
| 250+ | 2 |
Employee coverage: 3084 known, 1216 unknown (71.7%).
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 | 359 |
| 1–3 years | 648 |
| 3–5 years | 514 |
| 5–10 years | 1,202 |
| 10–20 years | 948 |
| 20+ years | 629 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 4300 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 | 4,300 |
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 | 87 |
| Exporter only | 28 |
| Both | 67 |
| Neither | 4,118 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 135 | £53,296,668,876 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 53 | £3,320,963,542 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 41 | £15,400,580,424 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 26 | £1,305,750,884 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 17 | £1,109,708,840 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 82 — Basic metal tools and utensils | 12 | £169,551,353 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 11 | £125,301,689 | 2016-06-01 – 2025-10-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 11 | £533,906,117 | 2016-09-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 10 | £204,310,208 | 2016-11-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 8 | £1,647,595,700 | 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 | 76 | £14,744,422,025 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 35 | £5,241,768,627 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 34 | £2,193,124,188 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 21 | £337,725,040 | 2016-05-01 – 2026-03-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 10 | £437,712,054 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 76 — Aluminum and aluminum products | 10 | £116,326,415 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 82 — Basic metal tools and utensils | 9 | £37,720,741 | 2016-05-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 9 | £116,538,821 | 2021-05-01 – 2025-09-01 |
| 95 — Toys, games, and sports equipment | 9 | £79,644,764 | 2019-02-01 – 2026-03-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 7 | £870,274,214 | 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 | 316 | 3,610 | 690 | 84.0% |
| Holding company | 0 | 3,610 | 690 | 84.0% |
| Solo founder | 1,962 | 3,610 | 690 | 84.0% |
| Ecommerce | 10 | 115 | 4,185 | 2.7% |
| Website | 142 | 143 | 4,157 | 3.3% |
| 130 | 143 | 4,157 | 3.3% |
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.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Babble Cloud Limited | £85,284,000 |
| Capital City Service Limited | £55,450,000 |
| Wanstor Ltd | £26,932,437 |
| Tela Technology Limited | £21,695,668 |
| M & M Contractors (europe) Ltd | £20,274,554 |
| Ice Telecommunications Ltd | £19,246,654 |
| Zest4 Group Limited | £19,183,550 |
| Extreme Networks Uk Technology Limited | £17,363,564 |
| Cable And Splicing Services Limited | £16,272,960 |
| Hutchison Technologies Limited | £15,444,387 |
Revenue coverage: 97 known, 4203 unknown (2.3%).
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.
SIC classification
SIC 61100 — Wired telecommunications activities
Includes
operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound and video using a wired telecommunications infrastructure, including:, operating and maintaining switching and transmission facilities to provide point-to-point communications via landlines, microwave or a combination of landlines and satellite linkups, operating of cable distribution systems (e.g. for distribution of data and television signals), furnishing telegraph and other non-vocal communications using own facilities, purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of networks and providing telecommunications services using this capacity to businesses and households, provision of Internet access by the operator of the wired infrastructure
Excludes
telecommunications resellers, see ##61.90
Details
The transmission facilities provide omni-directional transmission via airwaves and may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies.