List of Automotive in the UK

Last updated 21 October 2026

There are 169,115 automotive in the UK, one in every 52 UK companies. Most of them are small: four in five have one to four people, and only 1,049 firms employ 50 people or more. Three in five of all automotive are based in South East, London, North West, East of England and West Midlands. Below you find the largest automotive in the UK, the regions where they cluster, how many started this year and which are the oldest. The full list with addresses, phone numbers and email is in our UK company database or through the Companies House API.

169,115 companies indexed · Data counted on 21 October 2026

Companies169,1151 in52 UK companiesRegions12Largest regionSouth East 22,633Sole traders16%Employees1-4 (84%)Revenue$100-500K (41%)Email26%Phone49%Website50%

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	Company Name	Country	City	Address 1	State/Province	Postal Code	Website	Founding Year	Yearly Revenue in U.S. Dollars	Employees Total	Business Legal Type - Description	Number of Companies in Group	Company Registration Number
1	Belron Lending UK LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Egham	Milton Park	Surrey	TW20 9EL	belron.*****	2017	$22,834,626,423	343	Corporation	4660	11023933
2	Arnold Clark Automobiles LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Summertown	454 Hillington Road	Glasgow City	G52 4FH	arnoldclark.*****	1954	$7,353,930,453	11,743	Corporation	116	SC036386
3	Tvs Motor Company LIMITED UK Branch	Unitedkingdom	Newbold Pacey	The Prince Philip Bulding Warwick Enterprise	Warwickshire	CV35 9EF	N/A	2018	$5,057,891,227	6,522	Foreign company	488	FC035208
4	Kia UK LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Walton-on-thames	Walton Green	Surrey	KT12 1FJ	kia.*****	1944	$3,616,937,606	605	Corporation	865	04415807
5	We Buy Any Car LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Hook	Form 2	Hampshire	RG27 9XA	N/A	2006	$3,332,533,408	1,145	Corporation	567	05727953
6	Hyundai Motor UK LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Leatherhead	Birchwood Building	Surrey	KT22 7LP	hyundai.*****	1993	$3,223,141,066	337	Corporation	1160	05446560
7	Volvo Car UK LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Maidenhead	Scandinavia House	Windsor and Maidenhead	SL6 4FL	volvocars.*****	1993	$3,181,850,217	528	Corporation	677	02281044
8	Peugeot Motor Company PLC	Unitedkingdom	Finham	Pinley House	Coventry, West Midlands	CV3 1ND	stellantisandyou.*****	1917	$2,973,150,373	680	Corporation	1335	00148545
9	Ford Retail LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Highwoods	Charter Court	Essex	CO4 9YA	trustford.*****	1923	$2,736,228,213	2,818	Corporation	768	00191596
10	Evans Halshaw LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Edwalton	2 Oakwood Court	Nottinghamshire	NG15 0DR	lithia.*****	1968	$2,658,893,272	2,497	Corporation	860	01994002
11	Sytner LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Sharnford	2 Penman Way Grove Park	Leicestershire	LE19 1ST	sytner.*****	1969	$2,555,513,805	2,172	Corporation	1243	00813696
12	Greenhous Group (holdings) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Telford	Greenhous Village	Telford and Wrekin	TF6 6RA	greenhous.*****	2004	$2,471,382,477	1,708	Corporation	20	05270023
13	Lookers Motor Group LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Heron Cross	Lookers Stoke	Stoke-on-trent	ST4 4GU	lookers.*****	1916	$2,412,670,130	2,051	Corporation	206	00143470
14	Yazaki Europe LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Langdon Hills	Beechwood House	Essex	SS15 6EF	yazaki-europe.*****	1980	$2,262,152,064	1,329	Corporation	28	01490660
15	Yamaha Motor Europe N.V., Branch UK	Unitedkingdom	Sheerwater	Unit A2-a3	Surrey	GU21 5SA	yamaha-motor.*****	2014	$2,147,082,815	1,852	Foreign company	27	FC032245
16	Eicher Motors LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Lutterworth	Unit A	Leicestershire	LE17 5QS	royalenfield.*****	1901	$2,126,703,451	19,295	Foreign company	291	FC022643
17	Bca Outsource Solutions LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Hook	Form 2	Hampshire	RG27 9XA	N/A	1985	$2,115,806,321	36	Corporation	567	01487644
18	Vertu Fourth Investments LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Old Ravensworth	Business Park Team	Gateshead, Tyne and Wear	NE11 0XA	vertumotors.*****	1952	$1,979,576,945	2,015	Corporation	149	00522856
19	Volvo Group UK LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Guys Cliffe	Wedgnock Lane	Warwickshire	CV34 5YA	volvogroup.*****	1987	$1,942,010,228	1,278	Corporation	935	02190944
20	Alliance Automotive Procurement LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Cordwainer	90 Chancery Lane	London	WC2A 1EU	allianceautomotivegroup.*****	1989	$1,938,459,752	97	Corporation	3	06763254
21	Jct600 LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Idle	Tordoff House	Bradford, West Yorkshire	BD10 0PQ	jct600.*****	1946	$1,754,349,459	2,148	Corporation	55	00413250
22	Lkq Group (UK) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Polesworth	T2 Birch Coppice Business Park	Warwickshire	B78 1SE	eurocarparts.*****	1978	$1,641,594,947	9,277	Corporation	1645	02680212
23	Motus Group (UK) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Wycombe Marsh	Motus	Buckinghamshire	HP11 1JU	motusuk.*****	1960	$1,540,997,310	3,018	Corporation	106	00653665
24	Cl 1 Realisations LTD	Unitedkingdom	Hampstead	40 Churchway	London	NW1 1LW	N/A	2018	$1,489,360,154	2,035	Corporation	6	11624245
25	Motorpoint Group PLC	Unitedkingdom	The Holmes	Champion House	Derby	DE21 6LY	motorpoint.*****	2016	$1,483,953,904	796	Corporation	4	10119755

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Largest automotive in the UK

The biggest firms by staff and by revenue, the largest in South East, the biggest newcomers of 2026 and the oldest firms. Click a name for the record.

Eicher Motors is the largest automotive in the UK by headcount. 1,049 firms employ 50 people or more; 484 employ 100 or more.

1LeicestershireForeign company19,295 staff
2Warwickshire9,277 staff
3Worcestershire7,124 staff
4WarwickshireForeign company6,522 staff
5Leeds3,457 staff
6London3,384 staff
7Buckinghamshire3,018 staff
8Staffordshire2,825 staff
9Essex2,818 staff
10Nottinghamshire2,497 staff

By employee size · 164,891 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	138,072	84%
5-9	17,732	11%
10-19	5,529	3%
20-49	2,509	2%
50-99	565	0.3%
100-199	235	0.1%
200-499	168	0.1%
500-999	41	<0.1%
1,000+	40	<0.1%

84% have 1 to 4 people; 2,509 have 20 to 49; 1,049 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	62,901	38%
$100K-$500K	67,200	41%
$500K-$1M	17,656	11%
$1M-$5M	12,931	8%
$5M-$10M	1,296	0.8%
$10M-$50M	1,219	0.7%
$50M-$100M	195	0.1%
$100M-$500M	200	0.1%
$500M+	74	<0.1%

41% between $100,000 and $500,000; 12,931 between $1M and $5M; 2,984 above $5M.

Automotive in South East

South East has 22,633 automotive, 1.9% of all 1,188,541 South East companies and on the national share. Four in five South East firms have fewer than five people; 151 have 50 or more. 1,276 new firms were entered in 2026, 2,111 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 17,981 · 82%
5-9: 2,651 · 12%
10-19: 839 · 4%
20-49: 383 · 2%
50+: 151 · 0.7%

Legal form

Sole traders: 3,960 · 17%
Partnerships: 912 · 4%
Ltd and PLC: 14,337 · 63%
Other or none: 3,424 · 15%

Of the UK total: 13.4%
Of all South East companies: 1.9%
Against the national share: 1.0×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 1,276
Entered 2025: 1,930
Of UK's 2026 entries: 10.6%

Old

Before 1990: 2,111 · 9%
1990 or later: 20,522 · 91%
Of UK's pre-1990 firms: 14.3%

Reachable

Email: 6,597 · 29%
Phone: 11,921 · 53%
Website: 12,523 · 55%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 7,357 · 34%
$100K-$500K: 9,404 · 43%
$500K-$1M: 2,597 · 12%
$1M and more: 2,464 · 11%

Largest

13,018
22,418
3Foreign company1,852
41,515
51,293

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Firm sizes in the UK

Of the 164,891 UK automotive with a known headcount, 138,072 (84%) have one to four people, 17,732 have five to nine, 8,038 have ten to 49 and 1,049 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year (67,200, 41%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all UK companies

Micro under 10155,804 94%
Small 10 to 498,038 5%
Medium 50 to 249968 0.6%
Large 250+81 <0.1%

Grey line: the share among all UK companies (93% have under ten staff).

2,984

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 1,688 more than $10 million.

11,985

firms were entered in 2026.

Where in the UK?

South East has the most automotive in the UK (22,633), ahead of London (22,193), North West (19,290), East of England (18,227) and West Midlands (18,000). Together the five hold three in five of them. Relative to their size, West Midlands, East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber have the most: 1.3 to 1.4 times the national share.

Regions by number of firms

12 UK regions have at least one automotive; 12 have ten or more; 0 have exactly one. Click a region to set the lens.

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Where they cluster

Automotive per 100 companies, in regions with at least 100 of them. The national share is 1.91. West Midlands has 1.4 times the national share.

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Dashed line: the national share. A filled dot is twice the national share or more.

How many automotive are there in the UK?

Automotive in the UK

169,115

21 October 2026

There are 169,115 automotive in the UK in our data (21 October 2026). That is one in every 52 UK companies. About 57 new firms are entered in the register every working day this year (11,985 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 161,447 95%
Head offices: 2,237
Branch offices: 5,431

Classification

Our platform filter is the national code 45.

110,956 of the 169,115 are Ltd and PLC (66%); 27,864 are sole traders. They come from Companies House and our UK register data, through the Companies House API.

How reachable are they?

Automotive are easier to reach than the average UK company: 49% list a phone number and 50% a website.

Email43,355 26%
Phone82,354 49%
Website84,359 50%

Grey line: all UK companies (email 15%, phone 30%, website 30%).

The full list with these fields is in our UK company database.

The oldest firms in the UK

Our data holds 31 UK automotive from before 1900, 927 from before 1950 and 14,779 from before 1990.

1827
1. South Lanarkshire
1836
1. Northumberland
1836
1. North Yorkshire
1840
1. Worcestershire
1844
1. Derbyshire
1846
1. Buckinghamshire

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14,779

UK automotive date from before 1990

878

were entered in 1990

Newcomers in the UK in 2026

11,985 automotive were entered in the UK register so far in 2026, about 57 a working day, after 18,235 in 2025. The UK as a whole saw 534,395 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes 2.2% of the inflow.

6,4262022
9,4332023
11,5122024
18,2352025
11,9852026 so far

11,634 of this year's 11,985 are Ltd and PLC.

The biggest newcomers of 2026

The year is the register entry; an established firm that changes legal form appears as new.

1West Berkshire50 staff
2North Lincolnshire30 staff
3Cornwall20 staff
4Newry19 staff
5Hertfordshire17 staff

How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 381 automotive for every one of the shipbuilders in the UK.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Automotive	169,115	50%	82%
Auto Body Shops	92,193	55%	81%
Car Dealers	43,858	35%	88%
Car Parts Companies	3,885	24%	88%
Towing Services Companies	1,001	89%	77%
Shipbuilders	444	25%	79%

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Sole traders or Ltd: how they are organised

One in six UK automotive work as sole traders, against 7% of all UK companies. Two in three are Ltd and PLC.

Sole traders27,86416%
Partnerships (partnerships and LLPs)6,3604%
Ltd and PLC110,95666%
No form on record or other23,93514%

Single-site: 95%
Head offices: 2,237
Branches: 5,431

All UK companies: 7% sole traders, 3% partnerships, 62% Ltd and PLC.

Frequently asked questions

How many automotive are there in the UK?

There are 169,115 automotive in the UK in our data, counted on 21 October 2026. That is one in every 52 UK companies.

Which is the largest automotive in the UK?

Eicher Motors in Leicestershire, with 19,295 staff. By revenue Arnold Clark Automobiles in Glasgow City leads with $7.4 billion a year.

Which UK region has the most automotive?

South East, with 22,633, ahead of London (22,193), North West (19,290), East of England (18,227) and West Midlands (18,000). Relative to its size, West Midlands has the most: 1.4 times the national share.

How many automotive are there in South East?

22,633, which is 1.9% of all 1,188,541 South East companies and on the national share.

How big is a typical automotive?

Small. 84% of the 164,891 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 1,049 have 50 or more. Most turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year.

Are UK automotive sole traders or companies?

One in six (27,864) are sole traders, 4% are partnerships and 66% (110,956) are Ltd and PLC.

How many automotive started in 2026?

11,985 were entered in the UK register so far in 2026, after 18,235 in 2025. 11,634 of them are Ltd and PLC.

What is the oldest automotive in the UK?

AG Mot in South Lanarkshire, 1827, followed by Bank Top Garage in Northumberland (1836) and Treves UK in North Yorkshire (1836). 31 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers automotive?

Our platform filters them on the national code 45.

Can I download the full list?

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