Companies in Norwich

Q: How many companies are in Norwich?

Our Norwich business directory currently lists every registered legal entity with a Norwich address in the official United Kingdom business register. The exact count is shown live at the top of this page.

Q: Where does Norwich company data come from?

Norwich records are sourced directly from the official United Kingdom business register and enriched with 50+ data points: revenue, employees, industry codes, contact details, and ownership.

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Core registry fields are refreshed weekly. Enriched fields (revenue, employees, contact) are refreshed monthly so your Norwich list never goes stale.

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Behind every street in Norwich sits a business. 8,642 of them, to be exact, all registered in the United Kingdom business register. The biggest single industry is general business services with 461 companies, roughly 5% of everything that does business in the city.

8,642 businesses indexed

Aviva Insurance LIMITEDAviva Insurance LIMITED

	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	Aviva Insurance LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	8 Surrey Street	Norfolk	NR1 3NG	rac.*****	1837	$9,062,304,456	9	Corporation	842	SC002116
2	Aviva Central Services UK LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	Surrey Street	Norfolk	NR1 3ST	careers.*****	1996	$3,576,130,922	434	Corporation	842	03259447
3	Itv Broadcasting LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	Anglia House	Norfolk	NR1 3JG	itv.*****	1969	$1,444,813,938	1,373	Corporation	382	00955957
4	Direct Line Insurance LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	8, Surrey Street	Norfolk	NR1 3NG	fountainpartnership.*****	1985	$1,137,069,789	10,000	Corporation	842	01810801
5	Orbit Housing Association LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	Fourth Floor	Norfolk	NR1 1RY	orbit.*****	1994	$350,021,350	14	Corporation	12	IP27802R
6	Flagship Housing LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	31 King Street	Norfolk	NR1 1PD	flagship-services.*****	1998	$321,048,279	1,467	Corporation	2	IP031211
7	Bernard Matthews Foods LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	North Site Canteen	Norfolk	NR9 5QD	bernardmatthews.*****	2016	$304,929,496	1,056	Corporation	144	10036286
8	Norfolk And Suffolk Nhs Foundation Trust	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	County Hall	Norfolk	NR1 2DH	nsft.*****	1995	$298,760,496	4,000		8	N/A
9	Morliny Foods LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	Norfolk Tower	Norfolk	NR1 3PA	morlinyfoods.*****	1993	$292,185,254	32	Corporation	194	02874729
10	Riverside Walk Residents Association LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	124 Thorpe Road	Norfolk	NR1 1RS	N/A	2001	$264,328,219	1,400	Corporation	N/A	04171996
11	Ben Burgess & CO LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	38 Europa Way	Norfolk	NR1 2EN	benburgess.*****	2000	$241,126,515	276	Corporation	26	04172275
12	Solus (london) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	8 Surrey Street	Norfolk	NR1 3NG	solusgroup.*****	1997	$218,175,678	1,012	Corporation	842	03078842
13	Aviva UK Digital LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	8 Sentinel House	Norfolk	NR1 3NE	aviva.*****	2015	$193,955,346	282	Corporation	842	09766150
14	Norfolk County Council	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	County Hall	Norfolk	NR1 2DH	sites.*****	2012	$192,610,912	6,000		695	N/A
15	Lakeside Food Group LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	The Courtyard	Norfolk	NR18 9RS	lakesidefoods.*****	1989	$158,569,981	183	Corporation	6	02395347
16	Duffields Mills LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	Saxlingham Thorpe Mills	Norfolk	NR15 1TY	duffields.*****	1962	$145,219,493	158	Corporation	10	00732968
17	Cadeler UK LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	Avocet Court	Norfolk	NR7 0HR	cadeler.*****	2008	$138,911,000	224	Corporation	18	06106237
18	Cadeler Holdings LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	Avocet Court	Norfolk	NR7 0HR	cadeler.*****	2012	$136,487,000	267	Corporation	18	07964020
19	Raven Topco LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	Norfolk Tower	Norfolk	NR1 3PA	N/A	2016	$127,205,452	265	Corporation	7	10340347
20	The Cotswold Company (UK) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	The Cotswold Co Ltd	Norfolk	NR1 3PA	cotswoldco.*****	2003	$124,977,600	505	Corporation	7	04774845
21	Direct Line Insurance Group LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	Po Box 882	Norfolk	NR7 7EX	churchill.*****	1988	$124,322,332	9,053	Corporation	842	02280426
22	Gresham Insurance Company LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	8 Surrey Street	Norfolk	NR1 3NG	careers.*****	1910	$120,879,661	216	Corporation	842	00110410
23	Flagship Housing Developments LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	31 King Street	Norfolk	NR1 1PD	flagship-housing.*****	2004	$84,235,351	6	Corporation	N/A	05131085
24	Lord Lieutenant Of Norfolk	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	County Hall	Norfolk	NR1 2DH	norfolk.*****	2014	$83,153,177	1,000		N/A	N/A
25	First Eastern Counties Buses LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Norwich	Rouen House	Norfolk	NR1 1RB	firstgroup.*****	1931	$79,293,055	879	Corporation	578	00257815

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Largest companies in Norwich

Which company is the largest in Norwich depends on how you measure. You can look at valuation, at revenue or at how many people work there. Valuations are private for most companies, so here we stick to revenue and headcount.

By revenue, Aviva Insurance LIMITED comes first in Norwich. It is part of a group with $9.1 billion in yearly revenue. By headcount, Direct Line Insurance LIMITED comes first with 10,000 employees. We only looked at the 5,961 corporations in Norwich for this; sole traders, foundations and other legal forms are left out.

The two tables below show how all 8,642 companies in Norwich are spread across revenue and headcount bands.

Yearly revenue

37.1%of companies have less than $100,000 in yearly revenue

Revenue (USD)	Count	Share
up to $100,000	3,204	37.1%
$100,000 to $500,000	2,715	31.4%
$500,000 to $1M	485	5.6%
$1M to $5M	499	5.8%
$5M to $10M	75	0.9%
$10M to $50M	51	0.6%
$50M to $100M	11	0.1%
$100M to $500M	18	0.2%
$1B or more	4	<0.1%
Unknown	1,580	18.3%

Headcount

69.3%of companies have 1 to 4 employees

Employees	Count	Share
1-4	5,985	69.3%
5-9	615	7.1%
10-19	288	3.3%
20-49	232	2.7%
50-99	72	0.8%
100-199	23	0.3%
200-499	23	0.3%
500-999	10	0.1%
1,000-4,999	12	0.1%
5,000-9,999	1	<0.1%
10,000+	1	<0.1%
Unknown	1,380	16.0%

Source: business register and CompanyData. "Unknown" means no published figure.

Largest industries in Norwich

The biggest industry groups in Norwich by registered company count, with the top five companies by revenue in each.

General business services

461 companies

SIC 7389

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Property developers

409 companies

SIC 6552

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Property lessors

389 companies

SIC 6519

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Restaurants and eating places

345 companies

SIC 5812

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Holding firms

313 companies

SIC 6719

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Real estate agents and managers

284 companies

SIC 6531

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Management consulting

264 companies

SIC 8742

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Schools and educational services

166 companies

SIC 8299

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All industries in Norwich

Together, general business services, property developers and property lessors make up the top three industries in Norwich, accounting for 15% of the city's commercial activity. The oldest company we can find in Norwich is Sfp Arts Marketing & Press Agency, founded in 1742, with Aviva Insurance LIMITED not far behind. They are still here, along with 8,640 other businesses in Norwich.

Medieval wool money built Norwich, insurance money sustained it, and the East Anglian city now adds universities, media and food trades to a long commercial memory. All of them are in our data. Look up a company in the table at the top of this page, get the full list delivered as an Excel file, or pull the records straight into your own systems through our API.

Nonclassifiable Establishments1,149
Business Services, Not Elsewhere Classified461
Land Subdividers and Developers, Except Cemeteries409
Lessors of Real Property, Not Elsewhere Classified389
Eating Places345
Offices of Holding Companies, Not Elsewhere Classified313
Real Estate Agents and Managers284
Management Consulting Services264
Schools and Educational Services, Not Elsewhere Classified166
Beauty Shops161
Other industries4,701

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