Non-specialised wholesale trade (SIC code 46900)
General wholesalers file here. The code covers multi-product distributors, cash-and-carry operators, and any wholesaler that fits no tighter 46.x code. It is the busiest catch-all in the wholesale sector.
41,802active UK companies list SIC 46900 among their codes on the public recordCompanies House · counts as of August 2026
SIC 46900 in numbers
41,802 companies is 0.81 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register. 46900 is the most used of the 47 codes we track in division 46.
29,658 put 46900 first and 12,144, 29 per cent, list it in one of their other three slots. First code only gives the tighter list; any position gives more of them.
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN (WHERE THE PAPERWORK SITS, NOT NECESSARILY THE WORK) · COMPANIES HOUSE PUBLIC RECORD, AUGUST 2026
The five busiest post towns hold 39 per cent of them and London alone 26 per cent. Selling nationally, those towns are most of the market. Selling locally outside them, expect a small pool, so cover a county or a region rather than one town.
A worked example: 46900, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, from a pool of 41,802. Each lead you get arrives with a working website and a real email, and the director's name when the record has one. If we cannot complete one, you pay nothing.
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Division 46 is the business-to-business trading layer of the UK economy. These companies buy goods and resell them to retailers, trade customers and other wholesalers.
Related SIC codes
How to read SIC 46900
SIC 46900 reads as division 46 (wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles), group 469, class 4690, then the full five digits, inside section G, wholesale and retail trade. A company picks its own codes, up to four, and Companies House does not check them, so 46900 is the company's own description of what it does, and 29,658 list it first where 41,802 list it anywhere.
Who sells into division 46
Wholesalers and importers are prime accounts for freight forwarders, pallet networks, warehousing operators and customs brokers. Moving and storing stock is their whole cost base.
About SIC 46900
Why is SIC 46900 so high-volume?
It is the wholesaler catch-all. A firm selling several unrelated product lines has nowhere tighter to file, so it lands here rather than on a specific 46.x code.
How do I find food wholesalers instead of SIC 46900?
Use the 46.3x codes, such as 46310 and 46320. Firms pick those when food is their main product. A 46900 firm may carry some food, but food is not what it leads on.
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