UK SIC 2007 · 47710
Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores (SIC code 47710)
Clothing shops with real premises file here. Fashion stores count, and so do specialists in workwear, sportswear and formal wear. Online-only sellers use 47910. Other specialised retail sits in 47780.
Division 47 covers selling goods to the public. One code towers over it: 47910, retail via mail order or the internet. It is the default choice for the UK's huge ecommerce and marketplace-seller population. Other non-store selling uses 47990. Physical shops register by what they stock. Convenience and food stores use 47110, clothing 47710, pharmacies 47730, florists and pet shops 47760, and dozens more specialised-store codes exist. Market and stall traders have their own run of codes, 47810 to 47890. Mixed general stores fall into 47190. The code alone tells you how a retailer trades.
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Who prospects SIC 47710 companies
Few divisions get sold to this hard. Marketing and SEO agencies, payment providers, ecommerce platform resellers, fulfilment houses, courier account managers and bookkeepers all hunt retailers. The steady stream of new 47910 companies is the prize. Each one needs a storefront, payments and shipping on day one. Filing deadlines give accountants a natural opening for cleanup work. Growth between accounts hints at rising order volumes. A shop-based code plus the poor-website filter is a ready-made pitch for anyone selling ecommerce builds.
Lead generation for wholesalers & suppliers →How to read SIC 47710
SIC 47710 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 47, are the division, retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles. Add the third and you have group 477; 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 G, wholesale and retail trade, the broadest tier there is. Reading a code left to right therefore goes from a whole sector down to one activity.
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 47710 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 47710 are London (7,958), Manchester (855), Birmingham (734), Glasgow (366) and Leicester (299). 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 47710 as a filter
28,300 companies is 0.55 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 47710 5th most used of the 44 codes we track in division 47. 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.
21,246 companies put 47710 first and a further 7,054, 25 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.
The population is concentrated: the five busiest post towns hold 36 per cent of it, and London alone accounts for 28 per cent. If you sell nationally, those five towns are most of the market. If you sell locally and you are not in one of them, expect a much smaller pool and widen the radius early.
In practice the code on its own is rarely the whole filter. Pair 47710 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: 47710, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 28,300 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 47710 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 47710
Are e-commerce clothing brands filed under SIC 47710?
Only if they also trade from a shop. Online-only clothing is 47910. Clothing sold from a physical store is 47710. Brands doing both usually file both codes.
Are wholesalers of clothing filed under SIC 47710?
No. Clothing wholesalers file 46420 (wholesale of clothing and footwear). 47710 is for selling to the public only.
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