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Companies in Watford

Watford is the 38th biggest place on the UK company register, with 17,533 live companies, or 0.3% of the UK total. 1,872 of those were formed in 2025. 1,180 (6.7%) have a proposal to strike off on file, close to the UK figure of 7.3%. Compared with the UK as a whole, Watford stands out for wholesale of radio, television goods & electrical household appliances (other than records, tapes, cd's & video tapes and the equipment used for playing them): 15 companies, 3.8 times the national share.

What Watford has more of than the rest of the UK

Each trade's share of Watford companies, compared with its share across the UK.

  • Wholesale of radio, television goods & electrical household appliances (other than records, tapes, CD's & video tapes and the equipment used for playing them) (15 companies)3.8×
  • Wholesale of pharmaceutical goods (36 companies)3.6×
  • Web portals (82 companies)3.0×
  • Wholesale of watches and jewellery (19 companies)2.7×
  • Information technology consultancy activities (922 companies)2.3×

Biggest trades in Watford

Live Watford companies, by year formed

Only companies still live are counted, so older years look smaller. 2026 stops on 1 November 2026.

20122026
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YearLive companies
2012407
2013466
2014551
2015705
2016724
2017715
2018884
20191,054
2020820
2021864
2022959
20231,144
20241,377
20251,872
20261,685

Oldest active companies in Watford

  1. The Albion Soap CompanyFormed 1893
  2. KodakFormed 1898
  3. Church Society TrustFormed 1903
  4. Hilton Uk HotelsFormed 1904
  5. Institute of Grocery DistributionFormed 1909

Funny company names registered in Watford

Nearest in size

Town means the post town of the registered address, which isn't always where a company trades. Many companies use an accountant's or formation agent's address. Figures come from Companies House on 1 November 2026.

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