Businesses

Businesses usually keep records!

Types of businesses

Size / Alphabetical

1. Shops, merchants and distributors (5,239)
2. Business and professional services (4,866)
3. Textiles (3,260)
4. Transport and communications (2,747)
5. Agriculture, forestry and fisheries (2,745)
6. Food, drink and tobacco (2,241)
7. Metal processing and manufacturing (1,883)
8. Engineering: Mechanical (1,850)
9. Finance (1,532)
10. Mineral extraction (1,515)
11. Building and construction (1,484)
12. Domestic and leisure services (1,461)
13. Utilities (1,364)
14. Paper, printing and packaging (1,335)
    1. Publishing (604)
    2. Printing and engraving (414)
    3. Booksellers and stationers (228)
    4. Paper manufacture (105)
    5. Bookbinders (38)
    6. Stationery manufacture (38)
    7. Packaging (28)
    8. Wallpaper (20)
    9. Paper merchants (14)
    10. Newsagents, confectioners and tobacconists (7)
    11. Miscellaneous paper goods (6)
    12. Chemists (5)
    13. Furniture and upholstery (4)
    14. Furnishing and decorating (2)
    15. Household textiles (2)
    16. Miscellaneous business services (2)
    17. Miscellaneous textile merchants (2)
    18. Photographers (2)
    19. Advertising and publicity services (1)
    20. Boots, shoes and components (1)
    21. Builders merchants (1)
    22. Cans and metal boxes (1)
    23. Chemicals and gases (1)
    24. China and earthenware (1)
    25. Cinemas (1)
    26. Clothing (1)
    27. Cotton (1)
    28. Department stores (1)
    29. General merchants (1)
    30. Household goods dealers (1)
    31. Inks, dyes, pigments and paints (1)
    32. Jewellery and precious metal working (1)
    33. Meat and fish products (1)
    34. Medical services (1)
    35. Miscellaneous merchants and dealers (1)
    36. Plumbing, heating and ventilation (1)
    37. Property services (1)
    38. Radio and television (1)
    39. Restaurants (1)
    40. Silk and pile fabrics (1)
    41. Starch and miscellaneous foods (1)
    42. Synthetics and plastics (1)
    43. Theatres (1)
    44. Toiletries, soap and detergents (1)
    45. Vegetable and animal oils and fats (1)
15. Timber and furniture (846)
16. Chemicals (754)
17. Leather (687)
18. Property (594)
19. Insurance (545)
20. Glass, pottery, bricks and cement (524)
21. Engineering: Electrical (314)
22. Manufacturers (miscellaneous) (205)
23. Engineering: Instrument and Scientific (201)