List of Manufacturing Companies in the UK

Last updated 21 October 2026

There are 68,098 manufacturing companies in the UK, one in every 130 UK companies. Most of them are small: two in three have one to four people, and only 2,951 firms employ 50 people or more. Three in five of all manufacturing firms are based in South East, West Midlands, London, North West and East of England. Below you find the largest manufacturing firms 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.

68,098 companies indexed · Data counted on 21 October 2026

Companies68,0981 in130 UK companiesRegions12Largest regionSouth East 9,220Sole traders12%Employees1-4 (66%)Revenue$100-500K (39%)Email26%Phone61%Website59%

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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	Sumitomo Electric Industries, LTD.	Unitedkingdom	Elstree	Unit 220	Hertfordshire	WD6 3SL	sumitomoelectriceurope.*****	1897	$31,298,749,000	202	Foreign company	1128	FC039191
2	British Gas Trading LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Windsor	Millstream	Windsor and Maidenhead	SL4 5GD	britishgas.*****	1995	$18,409,911,845	6,970	Corporation	234	03078711
3	Landesbank Hessen-Thueringen Girozentrale	Unitedkingdom	Monument-aldgate-fenchurch Street-tower Hill	London Branch	London	EC2V 7EE	helaba.*****	1980	$11,134,501,732	6,515	Foreign company	237	FC010509
4	Tti, INC.	Unitedkingdom	Booker	Suite C Artisan	Buckinghamshire	HP12 4HJ	ttieurope.*****	2007	$8,828,272,644	30	Foreign company	8805	FC027572
5	J.C.B. Service	Unitedkingdom	Uttoxeter	World Parts Centre	Staffordshire	ST14 5PA	jcb.*****	1945	$7,356,105,110	14,734	Corporation	83	00564955
6	Canon Europa NV	Unitedkingdom	Attenborough	Paisley Grove Chilwell Meadows Business Park	Nottinghamshire	NG9 6DJ	canon-europe.*****	1983	$6,225,384,625	12,306	Foreign company	1331	FC012104
7	Dyson Technology LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Malmesbury	Tetbury Hill	Wiltshire	SN16 0RP	dyson.*****	1985	$6,192,626,570	2,929	Corporation	171	01959090
8	J.C. Bamford Excavators LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Waterfall	Lakeside Works	Staffordshire	ST14 5JP	jcbinsurance.*****	1945	$6,184,766,942	11,125	Corporation	83	00561597
9	Samsung Electronics (UK) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Chertsey	Samsung House	Surrey	KT16 0RS	samsung.*****	1995	$4,624,052,752	1,326	Corporation	807	03086621
10	Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V.	Unitedkingdom	Hatfield	Travellers Lane	Hertfordshire	AL10 8XB	europe.*****	1921	$4,297,325,367	3,839	Foreign company	2148	FC019156
11	IBM United Kingdom LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Worthy Down	Building C, Ibm Hursley Office	Hampshire	SO21 2JN	ibm.*****	1962	$3,859,077,544	6,920	Corporation	1779	00741598
12	Msc Industrial Supply CO	Unitedkingdom	Wednesbury	7 Pacific Avenue,	Sandwell, West Midlands	WS10 7WP	mscdirect.*****	2006	$3,769,521,000	929	Foreign company	206	FC020431
13	Daifuku CO., LTD. UK Branch	Unitedkingdom	Brinklow	Unit 5	Milton Keynes	MK10 0BY	daifuku.*****	2010	$3,736,454,552	3,691	Foreign company	237	FC029551
14	Sensata Technologies Holding PLC	Unitedkingdom	Hook	Interface House Interface Business Park, Bincknoll Lane	Wiltshire	SN4 8SY	N/A	2017	$3,704,500,000	16,700	Corporation	133	10900776
15	Leonardo UK LTD	Unitedkingdom	Queen'S Park	1 Eagle Place	London	SW1Y 6AF	uk.*****	1864	$3,573,822,659	8,966	Corporation	558	02426132
16	Cummins LTD.	Unitedkingdom	Wellingborough	40-44 Rutherford Drive	North Northamptonshire	NN8 6AN	cummins.*****	1952	$3,378,624,799	4,820	Corporation	853	00573951
17	Sony Europe B.V.	Unitedkingdom	Weybridge	The Heights	Surrey	KT13 0XW	sony-semicon.*****	2018	$2,830,004,680	2,719	Foreign company	28	FC035527
18	Spirax Group PLC	Unitedkingdom	Leckhampton	Charlton House	Gloucestershire	GL53 8ER	spiraxgroup.*****	1958	$2,252,218,076	9,951	Corporation	236	00596337
19	Hp INC UK LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Whiteknights	Earley West	Wokingham	RG6 1PT	hp.*****	1961	$2,223,639,478	750	Corporation	592	09408979
20	Cirrus Logic International (UK) LTD	Unitedkingdom	Edinburgh Bioquarter	7b Nightingale Way	City of Edinburgh	EH3 9EG	cirrus.*****	1984	$1,986,173,000	522	Corporation	32	SC089839
21	Black & Decker LIMITED BV	Unitedkingdom	Great Houghton	C/o Stanley Black & Decker, Caswell Road	West Northamptonshire	NN4 7PW	blackanddecker.*****	2018	$1,905,093,118	352	Foreign company	1113	FC035769
22	Exertis (UK) LTD	Unitedkingdom	Hapton	Technology House	Lancashire	BB12 7BF	exertis.*****	1980	$1,812,342,745	1,191	Corporation	191	01511931
23	Fruehauf CORPORATION	Unitedkingdom	Dereham	Rashes Green	Norfolk	NR19 1HE	N/A	1950	$1,786,753,739	26,500	Foreign company	N/A	FC011494
24	Rolls-Royce Submarines LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Spondon	Atlantic House	Derby	DE21 7BE	rolls-royce.*****	1959	$1,750,610,529	4,834	Corporation	362	00620485
25	Palo Alto Networks (UK) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	City of London	55 Level	London	EC2N 4BQ	N/A	2009	$1,709,660,000	474	Corporation	115	06851390

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Manufacturing firms in South East

South East has 9,220 manufacturing companies and manufacturing firms, 0.8% of all 1,188,541 South East companies and on the national share. Two in three South East firms have fewer than five people; 393 have 50 or more. 243 new firms were entered in 2026, 1,505 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 5,768 · 65%
5-9: 1,188 · 13%
10-19: 840 · 10%
20-49: 619 · 7%
50+: 393 · 4%

Legal form

Sole traders: 1,242 · 13%
Partnerships: 343 · 4%
Ltd and PLC: 6,367 · 69%
Other or none: 1,268 · 14%

Of the UK total: 13.5%
Of all South East companies: 0.8%
Against the national share: 1.0×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 243
Entered 2025: 382
Of UK's 2026 entries: 10.2%

Old

Before 1990: 1,505 · 16%
1990 or later: 7,715 · 84%
Of UK's pre-1990 firms: 15.3%

Reachable

Email: 2,471 · 27%
Phone: 5,853 · 63%
Website: 5,865 · 64%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 2,384 · 27%
$100K-$500K: 3,262 · 37%
$500K-$1M: 892 · 10%
$1M and more: 2,210 · 25%

Largest

16,970
26,920
35,629
4Foreign company3,691
5Foreign company2,719

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Firm sizes in the UK

Of the 65,225 UK manufacturing firms with a known headcount, 42,893 (66%) have one to four people, 9,184 have five to nine, 10,197 have ten to 49 and 2,951 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year (25,121, 39%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all UK companies

Micro under 1052,077 80%
Small 10 to 4910,197 16%
Medium 50 to 2492,799 4%
Large 250+152 0.2%

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

6,015

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 3,477 more than $10 million.

2,392

firms were entered in 2026.

How many manufacturing companies are there in the UK?

Manufacturing companies and manufacturing firms in the UK

68,098

21 October 2026

There are 68,098 manufacturing companies and manufacturing firms in the UK in our data (21 October 2026). That is one in every 130 UK companies. About 11 new firms are entered in the register every working day this year (2,392 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 60,092 88%
Head offices: 4,624
Branch offices: 3,382

Classification

Our platform filter is the national code 25, 26, 27, 28.

47,266 of the 68,098 are Ltd and PLC (69%); 8,508 are sole traders. They come from Companies House and our UK register data, through the Companies House API.

Largest manufacturing firms 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.

Fruehauf is the largest manufacturing firm in the UK by headcount. 2,951 firms employ 50 people or more; 1,300 employ 100 or more.

1NorfolkForeign company26,500 staff
2NottinghamshireForeign company12,306 staff
3London8,966 staff
4Windsor and Maidenhead6,970 staff
5Hampshire6,920 staff
6LondonForeign company6,515 staff
7Reading5,629 staff
8Derby4,834 staff
9North Northamptonshire4,820 staff
10London4,172 staff

By employee size · 65,225 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	42,893	66%
5-9	9,184	14%
10-19	5,636	9%
20-49	4,561	7%
50-99	1,651	3%
100-199	766	1%
200-499	382	0.6%
500-999	90	0.1%
1,000+	62	<0.1%

66% have 1 to 4 people; 4,561 have 20 to 49; 2,951 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	17,684	27%
$100K-$500K	25,121	39%
$500K-$1M	6,283	10%
$1M-$5M	9,593	15%
$5M-$10M	2,538	4%
$10M-$50M	2,665	4%
$50M-$100M	426	0.7%
$100M-$500M	319	0.5%
$500M+	67	0.1%

39% between $100,000 and $500,000; 9,593 between $1M and $5M; 6,015 above $5M.

Where in the UK?

South East has the most manufacturing companies in the UK (9,220), ahead of West Midlands (8,533), London (7,737), North West (7,521) and East of England (6,986). Together the five hold three in five of them. Relative to their size, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber and East Midlands have the most: 1.3 to 1.6 times the national share.

Regions by number of firms

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

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Where they cluster

Manufacturing firms per 100 companies, in regions with at least 100 of them. The national share is 0.77. West Midlands has 1.6 times the national share.

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

How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 190 manufacturing firms for every one of the cheese companies in the UK.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Manufacturing Companies	68,098	59%	63%
Food Companies	26,909	33%	79%
Butchers	9,652	52%	71%
Bakeries	7,027	41%	84%
Meat Companies	764	37%	65%
Cheese Companies	358	62%	56%

In other countries

The UK has more manufacturing firms than Italy or the Netherlands.

Country	Firms	Per 1,000 cos.
The Czech Republic	88,441	25.1
The UK	68,098	7.7
Italy	67,943	9.7
The Netherlands	25,010	6.5
Belgium	22,241	9.3

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Sole traders or Ltd: how they are organised

One in eight UK manufacturing firms work as sole traders, against 7% of all UK companies. Seven in ten are Ltd and PLC.

Sole traders8,50812%
Partnerships (partnerships and LLPs)2,3573%
Ltd and PLC47,26669%
No form on record or other9,96715%

Single-site: 88%
Head offices: 4,624
Branches: 3,382

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

Newcomers in the UK in 2026

2,392 manufacturing firms were entered in the UK register so far in 2026, about 11 a working day, after 3,682 in 2025. The UK as a whole saw 534,395 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes 0.4% of the inflow.

2,1162022
2,3322023
2,5282024
3,6822025
2,3922026 so far

2,331 of this year's 2,392 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.

1London50 staff
2Gloucestershire30 staff
3Brighton and Hove25 staff
4Hampshire24 staff
5Cornwall24 staff

The oldest firms in the UK

Our data holds 216 UK manufacturing firms from before 1900, 1,246 from before 1950 and 9,858 from before 1990.

1810
1. Fife
1820
1. Sandwell
1826
1. Bradford
1828
1. East Lothian
1832
1. Manchester
1834
1. Derby

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9,858

UK manufacturing firms date from before 1990

577

were entered in 1990

How reachable are they?

Manufacturing firms are easier to reach than the average UK company: 61% list a phone number and 59% a website.

Email17,597 26%
Phone41,309 61%
Website40,293 59%

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

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

Frequently asked questions

How many manufacturing companies are there in the UK?

There are 68,098 manufacturing companies and manufacturing firms in the UK in our data, counted on 21 October 2026. That is one in every 130 UK companies.

Which is the largest manufacturing firm in the UK?

Fruehauf in Norfolk, with 26,500 staff. By revenue British Gas Trading in Windsor and Maidenhead leads with $18.4 billion a year.

Which UK region has the most manufacturing companies?

South East, with 9,220, ahead of West Midlands (8,533), London (7,737), North West (7,521) and East of England (6,986). Relative to its size, West Midlands has the most: 1.6 times the national share.

How many manufacturing firms are there in South East?

9,220, which is 0.8% of all 1,188,541 South East companies and on the national share.

How big is a typical manufacturing firm?

Small. 66% of the 65,225 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 2,951 have 50 or more. Most turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year.

Are UK manufacturing companies sole traders or companies?

One in eight (8,508) are sole traders, 3% are partnerships and 69% (47,266) are Ltd and PLC.

How many manufacturing firms started in 2026?

2,392 were entered in the UK register so far in 2026, after 3,682 in 2025. 2,331 of them are Ltd and PLC.

What is the oldest manufacturing firm in the UK?

Pfaudler in Fife, 1810, followed by William King in Sandwell (1820) and Bekaert Bradford UK in Bradford (1826). 216 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers manufacturing companies?

Our platform filters them on the national code 25, 26, 27 and 28.

Can I download the full list?

Yes. All 68,098 firms with address, phone, email, legal form, employees, revenue and founding year, as Excel, CSV or through the API.

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