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Wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies: 4,354 live UK companies with SIC code 46740
Updated November 7, 2026. Source: Companies House Free Company Data Product.
4,354 live UK companies list SIC code 46740, wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies, in the Companies House snapshot dated 1 November 2026. 540 of them were incorporated in the last 12 months and 244 have an accounts due date that had passed, and 349 have a proposal to strike them off the register.
The request: Every UK company with SIC code 46740, wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies, incorporated since 2025, with registered address, accounts due dates and status. $10 of work on sign-up, no card.
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- 4,354Live companies
- 540Incorporated in the last 12 months
- 244Accounts overdue
- 349Strike off proposed
- 46740SIC 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 | 230 |
| 2023 | 337 |
| 2024 | 370 |
| 2025 | 507 |
| 2026 so far | 472 |
By region
| Region | Live companies |
|---|---|
| London | 966 |
| South East | 582 |
| West Midlands | 549 |
| North West | 515 |
| East of England | 378 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 336 |
| East Midlands | 239 |
| South West | 231 |
| Scotland | 176 |
| Wales | 163 |
| Northern Ireland | 109 |
| North East | 106 |
Towns with the most wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies 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 | 586 |
| Birmingham | West Midlands | 107 |
| Manchester | North West | 90 |
| Gillingham | South East | 73 |
| Cardiff | Wales | 49 |
| Leicester | East Midlands | 47 |
| Leeds | Yorkshire and The Humber | 44 |
| Nottingham | East Midlands | 42 |
| Beckenham | London | 37 |
| Bradford | Yorkshire and The Humber | 37 |
| Glasgow | Scotland | 35 |
| Coventry | West Midlands | 33 |
| Sheffield | Yorkshire and The Humber | 33 |
| Bolton | North West | 31 |
| Wolverhampton | West Midlands | 30 |
| Liverpool | North West | 29 |
| Bristol | South West | 28 |
| Harrow | London | 28 |
| Stockport | North West | 28 |
| Preston | North West | 26 |
| Stafford | West Midlands | 26 |
| Bury St Edmunds | East of England | 25 |
| Ilford | London | 25 |
| Wembley | London | 25 |
| Reading | South East | 24 |
Newest wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies 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.