New companies in Orkney Islands
Orkney Islands saw 0 new companies incorporated in the week of 19 October to 25 October 2026, 100% below the year-earlier weekly average (adjusted for companies dissolved since). About 0 of them are expected to trade, judging by what happened to similar companies. Among companies formed in the last 8 weeks, 1 already have a website verified as theirs.
Updated 30 October 2026 · covers Monday 19 October to Sunday 25 October 2026 · next update Monday · RSS · JSON
For accountants, accounts due: 174 companies in Orkney Islands have accounts due in the next three months and are not registered at an accountant's address. They've filed trading accounts before, are current on their confirmation statement and are registered at their own address (32 within a month, 36 in one to two, 106 in two to three); 8 more are already overdue but not yet in strike-off. The free Monday email names five of them; the accountancy subscription has them with due date and registered office, in a weekly batch of the ones due about twelve weeks out. Register of 2026-10.
What they do
Primary SIC code of the 0 companies incorporated this week.
What happens to them
Too few companies were formed in Orkney Islands in 2022 and 2023 to measure survival reliably. Across Scotland, 53% of companies formed between January 2022 and September 2023 at their own address were still on the register three years later and 37% had filed trading accounts (UK: 51% and 35%). Every council and constituency compared · how this is measured.
What's being started here
New companies registered in Orkney Islands in twelve high street trades, 2019 and 2025, counting only addresses with fewer than ten companies of the same trade. Registered office, not trading address. Source: Companies House register, read 10 October 2026.
| Trade (SIC code) | 2019 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hairdressing and beauty 96020 | 0 | 0 | no change |
| Takeaways and food stands 56103 | 1 | 1 | no change |
| Vehicle repair and servicing 45200 | 0 | 1 | up 1 |
| Other education 85590 | 0 | 1 | up 1 |
| Other human health 86900 | 0 | 0 | no change |
| Cleaning of buildings 81210 | 0 | 0 | no change |
| Convenience stores 47110 | 1 | 1 | no change |
| Cafés 56102 | 0 | 1 | up 1 |
| Roofing 43910 | 0 | 0 | no change |
| Gyms and sports facilities 93110 | 0 | 1 | up 1 |
| Driving schools 85530 | 0 | 0 | no change |
| Pharmacies 47730 | 0 | 0 | no change |
| All twelve trades | 2 | 6 | up 4 |
Across the UK, the trade codes chosen by new companies rose 36% between 2019 and 2025, partly because founders now pick more codes for each company, so a rise in one trade can simply keep pace with the register. A company can choose up to four trade codes, so one company can appear in two rows and is counted in the total once for each. What Britain starts now has the national figures, the method and the caveats.
Pubs and bars here
Pub and bar sites in Orkney Islands registered for VAT or PAYE, as counted by the Office for National Statistics each March (UK Business Counts, SIC 56302, rounded to 5).
| Pub and bar sites | March 2013 | March 2019 | March 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orkney Islands | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Nationally there were 37,350 pub and bar sites in March 2026, down 4.6% from March 2019 and down 16.4% from 2010; the fall has run at the same pace since 2019 as in the six years before, and about one registered pub in five closed for good in each of the last two periods, the same share before and after 2019. The pubs piece has the method, the caveats and every council's figures as CSV.
Find your way around
Other councils in Scotland:
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Business-to-business email to a limited company or LLP is permitted under PECR without prior consent, provided you say who you are and offer an opt-out. Every row says where the address came from. No director names, no home addresses.
Put this week's Orkney Islands numbers on your own website
A small card that updates itself every Monday. Paste the code into any page: a council news page, a firm's "local business" page, a newsletter template. It's free, with attribution to Salenovo and Companies House.
