A year on the public record
Seven hundred and seventy-six thousand UK companies in a year: the monthly rhythm, the London asterisk, and the industry mix, straight from the public record.
Every figure is cited on screen. Company examples are fictional specimens.
Music: Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0
Transcript
- 0:00
Every forty seconds, somewhere in the UK, a new company is born. This is what a year of that looks like, from the official register.
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Seven hundred and seventy-six thousand companies incorporated in the last twelve months. And the rhythm is real: formations dip every December, then surge back every spring. So compare a month with the same month a year earlier, never with the month before.
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Where do they register? London claims two hundred and eighty-three thousand. But read that carefully: a registered office is an address, not a workplace. One building on Shelton Street is home, on paper, to eighty-two thousand companies.
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And what do they do? Wholesale and retail leads, with a hundred and fifty-one thousand new companies in a year. Information and communication, and real estate, each add more than eighty thousand of their own.
- 1:08
The full tracker is free: every month, every region, every industry, refreshed with the register itself. You will find it at leadistry dot co dot uk, slash reports.
About this film
A year on the public record runs 1:23, read by Imogen and appears on Leadistry's UK company formations tracker page. The full narration is above in 5 sections, so you can read it instead of watching if that is quicker. Every figure shown on screen comes from the Companies House public record or a named published source, and the companies used as examples are fictional specimens rather than real customers.