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Wholesale of metals and metal ores: 2,474 live UK companies with SIC code 46720
Updated November 7, 2026. Source: Companies House Free Company Data Product.
2,474 live UK companies list SIC code 46720, wholesale of metals and metal ores, in the Companies House snapshot dated 1 November 2026. 369 of them were incorporated in the last 12 months and 184 have an accounts due date that had passed, and 241 have a proposal to strike them off the register.
The request: Every UK company with SIC code 46720, wholesale of metals and metal ores, incorporated since 2025, with registered address, accounts due dates and status. $10 of work on sign-up, no card.
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- 2,474Live companies
- 369Incorporated in the last 12 months
- 184Accounts overdue
- 241Strike off proposed
- 46720SIC code
- 1 November 2026Snapshot
Incorporations per year
Companies incorporated in each year that are still live in the 1 November 2026 snapshot. Companies that closed earlier are not counted, so older years read low.
| Year incorporated | Live companies |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 101 |
| 2023 | 176 |
| 2024 | 165 |
| 2025 | 312 |
| 2026 so far | 311 |
By region
| Region | Live companies |
|---|---|
| London | 855 |
| West Midlands | 364 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 280 |
| South East | 229 |
| North West | 200 |
| East of England | 165 |
| Wales | 85 |
| South West | 81 |
| East Midlands | 77 |
| Scotland | 61 |
| Northern Ireland | 40 |
| North East | 36 |
Towns with the most wholesale of metals and metal ores companies
Towns with 100 or more live companies; a link opens the page for this industry in that town.
| Town | Region | Live companies |
|---|---|---|
| London | London | 612 |
| Birmingham | West Midlands | 64 |
| Manchester | North West | 55 |
| Beckenham | London | 51 |
| Sheffield | Yorkshire and The Humber | 51 |
| Cardiff | Wales | 36 |
| Cambridge | East of England | 35 |
| Bradford | Yorkshire and The Humber | 29 |
| Leeds | Yorkshire and The Humber | 26 |
| Wednesbury | West Midlands | 26 |
| Harrow | London | 22 |
| Wolverhampton | West Midlands | 20 |
| Glasgow | Scotland | 19 |
| Ilford | London | 16 |
| Preston | North West | 16 |
| Coventry | West Midlands | 15 |
| Dudley | West Midlands | 14 |
| Ruislip | London | 14 |
| Milton Keynes | South East | 13 |
| Nottingham | East Midlands | 13 |
| Southall | London | 13 |
| Stafford | West Midlands | 13 |
| West Midlands, England | West Midlands | 13 |
| Leicester | East Midlands | 12 |
| Maidenhead | South East | 12 |
Newest wholesale of metals and metal ores companies
Newest first. Each row links to the Companies House record.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts are of live companies in the Companies House snapshot dated 1 November 2026. The snapshot holds basic company data only: no officers and no persons with significant control. A company is counted under each SIC code it lists, up to four. A region is the part of the UK a postcode area mostly falls in. This page uses Companies House data and is not endorsed by Companies House. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.