New companies in WC

The WC postcode area saw 719 new companies incorporated in the week of 19 October to 25 October 2026, 3% above the year-earlier weekly average (adjusted for companies dissolved since). About 238 of them are expected to trade, judging by what happened to similar companies; 93% were registered at a mass-formation or virtual-office address, so 53 were formed at their own address. Rising this week: Business support, Hospitality & food. Among companies formed in the last 8 weeks, 758 already have a website verified as theirs and 4 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 719: 44 operating businesses formed at their own or a home address; 666 at a mass-formation or virtual-office address; 54 property or holding companies; 457 of the 719 checked so far have no website yet.

What they do

Primary SIC code of the 719 companies incorporated this week. Rising against the previous 12 weeks: Business support, Hospitality & food.

What happens to them

Of the 5,245 companies formed in the WC postcode area between January 2022 and September 2023 at their own address, 60% were still on the register three years later and 40% had filed trading accounts (UK: 51% and 35%). A further 61,585 were registered at mass-formation or virtual-office addresses (92% 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 WC in the week of 19 October, from the public register (first 400 of 719). 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).