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New company incorporations in Reading

In the 12 months to August 2026, Companies House records in this analysis show 1,607 new companies with a registered office in Reading. Compared with the previous 12 months, the count decreased. A registered office in Reading is where a company is registered, not necessarily where it trades, and an incorporation is not a confirmed trading business.

Latest complete month
97
▼ 28.7% vs Aug 2025 (136)
Last 12 months
1,607 Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
new companies
Previous 12 months
1,691 Sep 2024 – Aug 2025
rolling change ▼ 5.0%
Share of UK
0.2% registered-office basis
New companies each month

The latest 12 months (solid) over the previous 12 (dashed). A month counting fewer than 10 companies is withheld and shown as a gap, never a zero.

New company incorporations, ReadingMonthly new company incorporations in Reading. Solid line: September 2025 to August 2026; dashed line: September 2024 to August 2025. A month counting fewer than 10 companies is suppressed, and a month with no data recorded is left blank; neither is plotted as zero. Source: Companies House.Companies0175SepNovJanMarMayJulAugNew company incorporations · Reading · Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 vs prior year · Companies House
Month 2024–252025–26
Sep 164175
Oct 143166
Nov 121129
Dec 8980
Jan 142125
Feb 127103
Mar 160166
Apr 138134
May 157143
Jun 146137
Jul 168152
Aug 13697

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By industry
New company incorporations by industry, ReadingNew company incorporations in the 12 months to August 2026, by industry, for Reading. A industry counting fewer than 10 companies is not shown. Source: Companies House.Retail and e-commerce293Property and real estate191Software and IT services190Hospitality and food services137Construction and trades132Management consultancy101Transport, courier and logistics76Health and social care60Manufacturing42Marketing, advertising and design38By industry · Reading · 12 months to Aug 2026 · Companies House
Industry Previous 12 months Companies Change Share of area
Retail and e-commerce 266 293 ▲ 10.2% 18.2%
Property and real estate 226 191 ▼ 15.5% 11.9%
Software and IT services 188 190 ▲ 1.1% 11.8%
Hospitality and food services 147 137 ▼ 6.8% 8.5%
Construction and trades 133 132 ▼ 0.8% 8.2%
Management consultancy 85 101 ▲ 18.8% 6.3%
Transport, courier and logistics 57 76 ▲ 33.3% 4.7%
Health and social care 74 60 ▼ 18.9% 3.7%
Manufacturing 55 42 ▼ 23.6% 2.6%
Marketing, advertising and design 39 38 ▼ 2.6% 2.4%

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A company is counted in a group if any of its filed SIC codes falls in that group, so a company can appear in more than one group and these figures are not additive — they are not a breakdown of a whole. A filed SIC code records the activity declared at incorporation, not proof of current trading.

Where these companies are registered
Registered-office address concentration, ReadingThe share of registrations at the single most-used registered-office address, the ten most-used, and all other addresses, for Reading. The two review thresholds (15% at one address, 40% across the top ten) are marked. No address is shown.15% single address40% top ten
Most common address — 2.2% Next nine addresses — 6.0% All other addresses — 91.8% 1,340 distinct addresses · 0.0% postcodes unmapped

Address concentration is published as a share and a distinct-address count only; no address is shown. A registered-office address is taken from the record at extraction and may differ from the address at the time of incorporation.

How this page defines this area
Boundary
Reading unitary authority
Geography code
E06000038 (GSS), under geography version lr-geography-v1. Matching is by official code, never by text on the address.
Postcode mapping
The registered-office postcode is mapped to a local authority through the ONS Postcode Directory. Postcodes that cannot be mapped are counted separately, never reassigned to a neighbouring authority.
Not included
Tightly drawn. Wokingham and West Berkshire are separate authorities and are not counted here, so much of what is colloquially Reading — including Green Park and Theale — is excluded.
What these figures do and do not show
Registered office
The address recorded at Companies House when the record was captured. It is not a verified trading location, an operational base or a founder's home.
Incorporation
A registration event. It is not evidence the company is trading, and it is not a business birth in the ONS sense.
Historical addresses
For backfilled months, the address is the one shown at extraction, which may differ from the address filed at incorporation.
SIC codes
Self-classified by the company at filing. A filed code is how the company described itself, not proof of current activity.
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Launch Register analysis of Companies House public data: private limited companies incorporated with a registered office in Reading in the 12 months to August 2026, geography mapped using the ONS Postcode Directory. Pages update in place, so quoting the release month keeps a figure reproducible.

https://launchregister.co.uk/company-statistics/locations/reading/ · Data through August 2026 · Last updated 2026-09-18 · Coverage 2024-09/2026-08 · Methodology methodology-v1 · Geography lr-geography-v1 · Industry mapping sic2007-lr-v1

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