New companies in West Midlands
West Midlands saw 1,297 new companies incorporated in the week of 19 October to 25 October 2026, about the same as the year-earlier weekly average (adjusted for companies dissolved since). About 526 of them are expected to trade, judging by what happened to similar companies. Rising this week: Agriculture & farming, Education, Finance & insurance. Among companies formed in the last 8 weeks, 745 already have a website verified as theirs and 222 have registered food premises.
Updated 30 October 2026 · covers Monday 19 October to Sunday 25 October 2026 · next update Monday · RSS · JSON
Of this week's 1,297: 1,080 operating businesses formed at their own or a home address; 52 at a mass-formation or virtual-office address; 167 property or holding companies; 896 of the 1,297 checked so far have no website yet.
For accountants, accounts due: 44,858 companies in West Midlands 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 (7,011 within a month, 7,561 in one to two, 30,286 in two to three); 2,442 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.
For accountants, companies that may be changing accountant: 595 established West Midlands companies moved their registered office away from an accountancy firm's address between 2 October 2026 and 30 October 2026, which can mean they've parted with that firm. The accountancy subscription names them each week, on the Something changed sheet. Counted from the office changes filed at Companies House, against the addresses where accountancy firms are registered.
Ranked by the model this week: A 124 B 250 C 305 D 403 E 215 · 1082 operating businesses. Band A companies went on to trade about 67% of the time on held-out tests of companies formed since the 2024 fee rise, band E about 15%. Followed for three years, 89% of the companies we ranked A were still registered, against 49% of all new companies (why a ranked lead is worth more). Which company is in which band, and how to reach it, is in the paid list; see a real week.
What they do
Primary SIC code of the 1,297 companies incorporated this week. Rising against the previous 12 weeks: Agriculture & farming, Education, Finance & insurance.
What happens to them
Of the 110,449 companies formed in West Midlands between January 2022 and September 2023 at their own address, 46% were still on the register three years later and 31% had filed trading accounts (UK: 51% and 35%). 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.
The 30 councils in West Midlands
The last four complete weeks. Own address leaves out formation agents and virtual offices, whose registrations say where the agent is rather than the business.
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Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands
Aldridge-BrownhillsBirmingham EdgbastonBirmingham ErdingtonBirmingham Hall Green and MoseleyBirmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull NorthBirmingham LadywoodBirmingham NorthfieldBirmingham Perry BarrBirmingham Selly OakBirmingham YardleyBromsgroveBurton and UttoxeterCannock ChaseCoventry EastCoventry North WestCoventry SouthDroitwich and EveshamDudleyHalesowenHereford and South HerefordshireKenilworth and SouthamKingswinford and South StaffordshireLichfieldMeriden and Solihull EastNewcastle-under-LymeNorth HerefordshireNorth ShropshireNorth Warwickshire and BedworthNuneatonRedditchRugbyShrewsburySmethwickSolihull West and ShirleySouth ShropshireStaffordStaffordshire MoorlandsStoke-on-Trent CentralStoke-on-Trent NorthStoke-on-Trent SouthStone, Great Wyrley and PenkridgeStourbridgeStratford-on-AvonSutton ColdfieldTamworthTelfordThe WrekinTipton and WednesburyWalsall and BloxwichWarwick and LeamingtonWest BromwichWest WorcestershireWolverhampton North EastWolverhampton South EastWolverhampton WestWorcesterWyre Forest
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