Sell to UK vehicle hire companies
Rental firms, van hire depots and the operators supplying vehicles to trades and to the private-hire market.
There are 10,410 of them on the Companies House register as of August 2026, filing SIC code 77110. This page is about reaching them, not about being one.
What people sell to vehicle hire companies
If you are one of these, this market is a list rather than a guess. Every company below is on the public record with its registered office, incorporation date, officers and filing history.
- Fleet insurance and motor trade cover
- Vehicle finance, leasing and remarketing
- Telematics, tracking and damage-capture systems
- Rental booking and fleet management software
- Tyres, servicing and mobile maintenance contracts
- Cleaning, valeting and vehicle preparation
What SIC 77110 actually tells you
Only around three fifths of the companies here put the code first, and the secondary filers are frequently dealers and garages hiring out alongside their main business. Both are real prospects for most fleet products, so any-position matching usually serves better than a tight filter.
In numbers: 6,074 companies put 77110 first and 4,336 carry it in one of their other three SIC slots, so 58 per cent of the population leads with it. Together they are 0.2 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register.
Car and van hire by post town
Measured on the August 2026 register, these are the registered-office post towns with the most vehicle hire companies. London holds 20 per cent of the national population on its own. A registered office is where the paperwork sits rather than where the work happens, so treat this as where to start looking, not as a service area.
- London2,123
- Birmingham317
- Manchester279
- Glasgow169
- Bradford146
Timing
Fleet purchases and insurance renewals run annually and are the two moments worth catching. A newly formed hire company buys both immediately, which makes incorporation date the strongest single filter on this code.
A worked filter for this market: SIC 77110, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days. That turns 10,410 companies into a list you can write to in an afternoon. Add the poor-website filter if what you sell is a web presence, or a recent change of officer if you sell to whoever just took the job.
The rest of division 77
A trade rarely sits in exactly one code. Car and van hire is in division 77, rental and leasing activities, and the codes below are its nearest neighbours on the public record: another 22,037 companies describing themselves in adjacent terms. If your product suits the wider trade rather than this one code, pull two or three of them together.
- 77390 · Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods n.e.c.7,815
- 77320 · Renting and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment5,245
- 77400 · Leasing of intellectual property and similar products, except copyright works3,091
- 77291 · Renting and leasing of media entertainment equipment2,465
- 77210 · Renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods1,745
- 77120 · Renting and leasing of trucks and other heavy vehicles1,676
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Every vehicle hire companie you pull arrives with its Companies House record, the director’s name, a verified website and a verified email. The ones we cannot complete are not charged for.
What if a company has no website?
Trades with a lot of very small companies tend to have patchy web presence, and a list that charges you per row will happily sell you the rows it could not finish. Here you are charged for a complete lead or not at all, which means the size of the market above is the ceiling, not the invoice.
Is emailing these companies legal?
This is public-record data about businesses, and reaching a company at a published business address is normal B2B contact. The lawful basis is legitimate interest, every message carries an opt-out, and anyone who asks to be removed is suppressed across the whole system rather than on one list. If a company asks us directly, we take its record out within twenty-four hours. None of that is optional or an upgrade.
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Fleet, then renewal
Ten thousand car and van hire companies, and two in five carry the code behind their main trade.
Common questions
How many vehicle hire companies are there in the UK?
10,410 active UK companies file SIC code 77110, car and van hire, on the August 2026 Companies House snapshot. 6,074 of them list it as their first SIC code and 4,336 carry it in one of their other three slots, so 58 per cent lead with it. Together they are 0.2 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register.
How do I build a list of UK vehicle hire companies?
Filter the Companies House register by SIC code 77110. Narrow it by registered-office postcode (London holds the largest share at 20 per cent) and by incorporation date if you want companies still choosing suppliers. Match on any SIC position rather than the first when you need reach, and on the first position when you need precision. Every lead Leadistry delivers carries the company record, the director's name, a verified website and a verified email.
Is it legal to cold email vehicle hire companies in the UK?
Contacting a company at a published business address is normal B2B outreach under UK GDPR and PECR, on the lawful basis of legitimate interest. Every message must identify you and carry a working opt-out. Anyone who asks to be removed is suppressed across the whole system, and a company that asks us directly has its record taken out within 24 hours.
10,410 vehicle hire companies. Filtered to the ones worth writing to.
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