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UK companies by trade
What do Britain's 5,711,779 live companies say they do? These are the 60 biggest specific trades, using the codes companies declare themselves.
All 60 trades
- Accounting and auditing activities
- Activities of head offices
- Advertising agencies
- Agents involved in the sale of a variety of goods
- Architectural activities
- Artistic creation
- Business and domestic software development
- Buying and selling of own real estate
- Construction of commercial buildings
- Construction of domestic buildings
- Dental practice activities
- Development of building projects
- Educational support services
- Electrical installation
- Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities
- Event catering activities
- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified
- Financial management
- Freight transport by road
- General cleaning of buildings
- General medical practice activities
- Hairdressing and other beauty treatment
- Hotels and similar accommodation
- Information technology consultancy activities
- Joinery installation
- Landscape service activities
- Licensed restaurants
- Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles
- Management consultancy activities other than financial management
- Management of real estate on a fee or contract basis
- Motion picture production activities
- Non-specialised wholesale trade
- Other activities of employment placement agencies
- Other building completion and finishing
- Other construction installation
- Other engineering activities
- Other food services
- Other human health activities
- Other information technology service activities
- Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
- Other retail sale in non-specialised stores
- Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets
- Other software publishing
- Other sports activities
- Other transportation support activities
- Performing arts
- Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation
- Public houses and bars
- Real estate agencies
- Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
- Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores
- Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
- Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles
- Sound recording and music publishing activities
- Specialists medical practice activities
- Take-away food shops and mobile food stands
- Taxi operation
- Unlicensed restaurants and cafes
- Video production activities
- specialised design activities