UK SIC 2007 · 11010
Distilling, rectifying and blending of spirits (SIC code 11010)
Distilling, rectifying and blending of spirits is UK SIC code 11010. It sits in division 11 (Manufacture of beverages) of the SIC 2007 list. On the August 2026 Companies House register, 2,005 active UK companies list 11010 among their SIC codes. 1,942 of them list it first. That makes it the second most used code in its division.
Division 11: Manufacture of beverages
Drinks manufacturing, and one of the more evenly spread divisions on the public record. Beer, 11050, and spirits, 11010, are almost exactly the same size in company terms, which reflects the last decade in UK drinks: a craft brewing boom followed by a wave of small distilleries, mostly gin. Soft drinks and bottled water sit in 11070. Cider, wine and malt each have their own codes below the threshold, which is a useful reminder that company count and market value are very different things here.
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Who prospects SIC 11010 companies
Ingredient and packaging suppliers dominate the sell side, along with bottling, canning and labelling services. Excise and duty specialists, brewery equipment finance and trade insurers all sell into a new incorporation immediately, because a producer cannot trade without duty registration and cover. Distribution and wholesale buyers use the public record the other way round, as a way of finding producers before a competitor does. Website quality across small producers is patchy, which makes the poor-website filter productive.
Lead generation for wholesalers & suppliers →How to read SIC 11010
SIC 11010 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 11, are the division, manufacture of beverages. Add the third and you have group 110; the fourth narrows it to a class, and the fifth to the subclass, which is the level Companies House actually asks a company to pick. The whole division sits under section C, manufacturing, the broadest tier there is. Reading a code left to right therefore goes from a whole sector down to one activity.
More on how SIC 11010 is built
A company chooses its own codes when it incorporates and can change them on any confirmation statement. It may list up to four, and Companies House does not check whether they are right. That is why 11010 is worth reading as a claim the company made about itself rather than as a verified fact, and why the first-position and any-position counts above differ.
Measured on the August 2026 register, the busiest registered-office post towns for 11010 are London (283), Glasgow (93), Edinburgh (73), Manchester (23) and Birmingham (16). Those are registered-office locations, which is where the paperwork sits rather than necessarily where the work happens, so treat them as where to start looking rather than as a service area.
Using SIC 11010 as a filter
2,005 companies is 0.04 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 11010 second most used of the 3 codes we track in division 11. That is the pool before any filter. Whether it is a big market for you depends on what you sell, but it is the number every other filter on this page cuts down from.
More on filtering by SIC 11010
Almost everybody who uses 11010 means it: 1,942 of 2,005 companies put it first, leaving only 63 carrying it as a secondary code. That makes it an unusually clean filter. You can match on the code alone and trust that the companies you get really are in this line of work.
These companies are spread out. London is the largest single cluster at 14 per cent and the top five post towns together hold only 24 per cent, so the remaining 76 per cent sits across the rest of the country. A regional filter narrows this list without gutting it, which makes it a reasonable code to work territory by territory.
In practice the code on its own is rarely the whole filter. Pair 11010 with an incorporation date to catch companies in their first months, when they are still choosing suppliers, or with a filing deadline to reach them while the year end is on their mind. A worked example for this code: 11010, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 2,005 company pool into a list you can write to in an afternoon. Add the poor-website filter if what you sell is a website, or a recent change of officer if you sell to whoever just took the job. Every company you pull carries the Companies House record, the director's name, a verified website and a verified email, and the ones we cannot complete are not charged.
Where SIC 11010 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 11010
How many UK companies use SIC code 11010?
2,005 active UK companies list 11010 (Distilling, rectifying and blending of spirits) among their registered SIC codes. Each company may register up to four. Of those, 1,942 put it first. The figures come from the August 2026 Companies House register snapshot, and count active companies only.
Which SIC code should a small brewery with a taproom use?
List both. 11050 manufacture of beer describes the brewing, and a division 56 code covers the taproom as a bar or food service business. A company may hold four codes and many breweries use two or three. Pick the one that matches most of your turnover first, since some readers only look at the first position.
Does a gin distillery register under 11010 even if it buys in neutral spirit?
Yes. 11010 covers distilling, rectifying and blending of spirits, and rectifying and blending are explicitly included, so a producer working from bought-in spirit still fits. Companies House does not assess the question. Your duty registration with HMRC is the process that actually cares what you do.
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