New companies in HR

The HR postcode area saw 71 new companies incorporated in the week of 19 October to 25 October 2026, 36% below the year-earlier weekly average (adjusted for companies dissolved since). About 27 of them are expected to trade, judging by what happened to similar companies; 38% were registered at a mass-formation or virtual-office address, so 44 were formed at their own address. Rising this week: Professional services, Retail & wholesale. Among companies formed in the last 8 weeks, 44 already have a website verified as theirs and 5 have registered food premises.

Updated 30 October 2026 · covers Monday 19 October to Sunday 25 October 2026 · next update Monday · JSON

Of this week's 71: 41 operating businesses formed at their own or a home address; 27 at a mass-formation or virtual-office address; 4 property or holding companies; 47 of the 71 checked so far have no website yet.

What they do

Primary SIC code of the 71 companies incorporated this week. Rising against the previous 12 weeks: Professional services, Retail & wholesale.

What happens to them

Of the 2,253 companies formed in the HR postcode area between January 2022 and September 2023 at their own address, 57% were still on the register three years later and 41% had filed trading accounts (UK: 51% and 35%). A further 1,459 were registered at mass-formation or virtual-office addresses (39% of the total) and are left out, because their outcomes say more about the agent than the place (what these addresses are). Most of the rest never traded: they missed their first confirmation statement and were struck off at about seventeen months. The Business Survival Index: every council and constituency compared · how this is measured, why it agrees with the ONS, and why it excludes the roughly 4% of companies whose address the registrar has since removed · CSV.

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The companies

Every company incorporated in HR in the week of 19 October, from the public register. Which ones will trade, what each one is, whether it already has an accountant, and how to reach it are in the paid list (see a sample week).