All industries · SIC section G, divisions 45 to 47

Retail & Wholesale company data.

Shops, wholesalers and the motor trade. 1,005,247 companies on the UK register list this among their activities, and 211,893 were incorporated in the last 12 months.

Retail & Wholesale

What retail & wholesale is actually made of.

743,696 companies have this as their main activity, spread across 103 distinct activities. A further 261,551 list it alongside something else.

Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet47910
22.2%165,117
Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles45200
7.1%53,089
Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles45112
5.1%37,833
Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating47110
5.0%37,017
Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets47990
4.6%34,570
Non-specialised wholesale trade46900
4.6%34,308
Other retail sale in non-specialised stores47190
4.4%32,716
Everything else in this industry
46.9%349,046

Share of companies whose first SIC code falls in this industry. A company can carry up to four codes; counting each company once, under its first, is what makes these add to 100.

Retail & Wholesale

What the data does for retail & wholesale.

1,005,247 companies list this among their activities, 211,893 of them incorporated in the last 12 months. Here is what that is actually good for.

Build a stockist or supplier listAll 1,005,247 companies in retail & wholesale, filtered to the area you sell into.
Catch openings early211,893 in the last 12 months. New sites need suppliers before anyone calls them.
Check a trade accountCompany age, status and officers before you extend credit terms.
Track closures on your patchWhich companies dissolved, and where the gaps opened up.
Map the sector by postcodeWhere the trade concentrates, and where nobody is serving it.
Size a territoryHow many competitors are already there, and how long they have lasted.
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