UK SIC 2007 · 82990
Other business support service activities n.e.c. (SIC code 82990)
This is the business-services catch-all. Virtual assistants, BPO providers, collections firms, credit reporting and document services all use it. So does any support activity with no better home in the SIC list.
Division 82: Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
Without 82990 this division would be small. That code, other business support n.e.c., is what companies in every industry pick when nothing else describes them. So a list built on 82990 alone is noisy. It holds virtual assistants, consultants, agencies and plain misclassifications side by side. The specific codes are much cleaner. Code 82110 covers combined office administrative services. Code 82301 is for exhibition and fair organisers, and 82302 for conference organisers. Code 82920 covers the packaging and fulfilment trade that grew up with online retail.
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Who prospects SIC 82990 companies
Work the edges of this division, not the middle. Event organisers under 82301 and 82302 buy venues, AV production, registration platforms, sponsorship sales and event insurance. A new incorporation there often means an events director has gone independent. Packaging and fulfilment companies under 82920 attract machinery suppliers, courier partnerships and warehouse property agents. Treat 82990 with more care. Layer filters on first: incorporation date, location, officer history and website quality. That turns an unusable catch-all into a source of businesses that tidier competitor lists never reach.
Lead generation for lead generation teams →How to read SIC 82990
SIC 82990 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 82, are the division, office administrative, office support and other business support activities. Add the third and you have group 829; 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 N, administrative and support service activities, 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 82990 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 82990 are London (54,097), Manchester (3,764), Birmingham (3,483), Warrington (3,170), Glasgow (2,231). 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 82990 as a filter
209,381 companies is 4.0 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 82990 most used of the 8 codes we track in division 82. 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.
163,536 companies put 82990 first and a further 45,845, 22 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 26 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 82990 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: 82990, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 209,381 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 82990 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 82990
Why is SIC 82990 so high-volume?
Because it catches what the other codes miss. Virtual assistants, freelance ops people, fractional CXOs and gig-economy ltds all land here. The group is a mixed bag, so plan on adding more filters.
How do I find virtual assistants under SIC 82990?
No SIC names them. Get close with 82990, one director, and a company set up in the last 0 to 3 years. Then check the company website to confirm.
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