UK SIC 2007 · 13923
Manufacture of household textiles (SIC code 13923)
Manufacture of household textiles is UK SIC code 13923. It sits in division 13 (Manufacture of textiles) of the SIC 2007 list. On the August 2026 Companies House register, 793 active UK companies list 13923 among their SIC codes. 654 of them list it first.
Division 13: Manufacture of textiles
UK textile manufacturing survives at small scale and this division shows the shape of it. The largest code is 13990, other textiles not elsewhere classified, followed by soft furnishings at 13921 and textile finishing at 13300. Weaving and spinning, the parts of the industry that left, now sit well below the threshold. What remains is largely finishing, furnishing and specialist technical textiles, and it is concentrated in the old mill areas of the north and the Midlands.
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Who prospects SIC 13923 companies
Machinery dealers, dyestuff and chemical suppliers and specialist logistics firms sell into this division. So do B2B buyers looking for UK-based production: interior designers, contract furnishers and brands wanting a supply chain they can visit. That second group is the more interesting use of the public record, because a searchable list of surviving UK textile manufacturers is genuinely hard to come by elsewhere. Filing history is the signal that matters most, since it separates the active from the dormant.
Lead generation for wholesalers & suppliers →How to read SIC 13923
SIC 13923 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 13, are the division, manufacture of textiles. Add the third and you have group 139; 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 13923 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 13923 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 13923 are London (141), Manchester (52), Bolton (26), Beckenham (19) and Birmingham (15). 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 13923 as a filter
793 companies is 0.02 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 13923 4th most used of the 4 codes we track in division 13. 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 13923
654 companies put 13923 first and a further 139, 18 per cent, list it in one of their other three SIC slots. That gap is the difference between a tight list and a broad one. First-code-only is the safer filter when you are writing to them; matching any position is worth it when you need the volume.
These companies are spread out. London is the largest single cluster at 18 per cent and the top five post towns together hold only 32 per cent, so the remaining 68 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 13923 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: 13923, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 793 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 13923 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 13923
How many UK companies use SIC code 13923?
793 active UK companies list 13923 (Manufacture of household textiles) among their registered SIC codes. Each company may register up to four. Of those, 654 put it first. The figures come from the August 2026 Companies House register snapshot, and count active companies only.
What is the difference between 13921 and 13923?
13921 is manufacture of soft furnishings, meaning curtains, blinds, cushions and similar finished items. 13923 is household textiles more broadly, such as bed and bath linen. The two overlap in practice and plenty of companies could justify either. If your work spans both, list both codes rather than trying to pick a winner.
Are clothing manufacturers in this division?
No. Textiles are division 13 and clothing is division 14, so a company making garments belongs in 14 even though it works with the same materials. Suppliers selling to both should filter on the two divisions together, since the split is about the stage of production rather than the industry.
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