Companies House · Leeds

UK companies in Leeds

Leeds runs the biggest financial-services centre outside London. Legal services, accountancy and asset management all cluster here. The LS postcode area is mainly professional services. The wider West Yorkshire postcodes (WF, BD, HD, HX) lean more on manufacturing and textiles.

At a glance

Key facts

Leeds (LS postcode) is the second-largest UK legal hub after London, with over 4,000 active solicitor firms registered
West Yorkshire (LS, WF, BD, HD, HX) holds ~3% of UK active companies
LS1 and LS2 cover the Leeds central business district. LS11 and LS12 hold more industrial and wholesale firms

Measured

New companies in Leeds

7,373 new companies were set up with a Leeds registered office in the last twelve full months, about 614 a month. 517 of them were set up in August 2026. That sits on top of 47,921 active companies already registered here.

Sept 25 to Aug 26. Companies still on the register, counted from the Companies House snapshot.

What the new ones do: Buying and selling of own real estate leads, with 424 new companies in the year.

68100Buying and selling of own real estate424
68209Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate356
47910Retail sale via mail order houses or via the internet353
64209Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.280
56103Take-away food shops and mobile food stands253

For agencies and suppliers

Selling to new Leeds companies

A company in its first months is still choosing who it works with. Reaching it then, with a short email that names what it has just started, is often the easiest time to win them as a client.

Marketing agenciesA new company needs a website, a logo and its first customers, usually before it has picked anyone to help.
AccountantsEvery new company owes a first set of accounts and a confirmation statement, and many have no accountant yet.
IT and software firmsEmail, devices and security get set up in the first months, and the choices made then tend to stick.
Insurance brokersEmployers' liability, professional indemnity and van cover are bought early, often in a hurry.
RecruitersThe first hires come quickly once a new company wins work.

Leadistry reads the new Leeds registrations all day, keeps the ones with a working website and a real email, and writes the first email for you to approve. 100 free leads the moment you sign up, with no card: 50 now and 50 more as their reasons appear. Each shows the company, its email, the director's name, its website and why to get in touch now. Buy your first plan and 400 more leads come free, worth £31. Addresses, phone numbers and social pages show once you buy.

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Measured

The most registered SIC codes in Leeds

Counting active companies whose registered office is a Leeds post town, these are the codes that come up most often on the August 2026 Companies House snapshot. Buying and selling of own real estate leads with 3,150 companies. It is worth reading against the sectors below: the authored view is what Leeds is known for, this is what its companies actually filed.

68100Buying and selling of own real estate3,150
62020IT consultancy activities1,633
64209Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.1,514
68320Management of real estate on a fee or contract basis1,351
86900Other human health activities1,249
41100Development of building projects1,036
73110Advertising agencies510
78109Other activities of employment placement agencies454

Pick a code, then narrow by postcode and date. Every company you pull carries a working website and a real email, and we never charge for the ones we cannot complete.

Why do these counts add up to more than the total?

A company may register up to four SIC codes and these counts include every position, so a business filed under two of them appears twice.

Where the volume sits

Dominant sectors in Leeds

SIC 69201, Accounting, auditing, and tax consultancyView SIC 69201 →

SIC 69101, SolicitorsView SIC 69101 →

SIC 70229, Management consultancyView SIC 70229 →

SIC 62012, Software developmentView SIC 62012 →

SIC 66220, Insurance brokerageView SIC 66220 →

Search recipe

How Leeds is counted

A company counts for Leeds on this page when its registered office is in one of these postcode areas:

LS, WF, BD, HD, HX

To find companies here on Leadistry, tell an agent you sell in Leeds and say what you sell. It chooses the kinds of business for you and shows them before it starts. The sector table above shows which trades are busiest.

Answers

About Leeds on Companies House

Is Leeds a good base for legal-services lead generation?

Yes. No UK area outside London is denser for law firms. Filter SIC 69101 (solicitors) with the LS postcode. Lots of London firms already sell to this group, so make your first line count.

How does Leeds compare to Manchester for B2B SaaS targeting?

Leeds leans financial services and legal. Manchester leans digital and media. Pick the postcode that matches your ideal customer.

Can I get named director emails for Leeds-area firms?

Yes, where the firm publishes one. Every agent lead ships with a verified website and a verified email, checked against the company's own domain. Smaller LS-postcode firms often publish a direct email for the founding director.

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Companies House · Leeds

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Leadistry finds UK business leads directly from the Companies House public record. You describe who you sell to in a short conversation, in your own words, and the AI sets up what to watch for: there are no filters or search syntax to learn. Every lead arrives complete, with the registered company record, the director's name when it is on the public record, a working website and a business email on a domain confirmed to accept mail. One lead is one lead: anything else we find, such as a LinkedIn profile or their socials, comes with it at no extra cost. If we cannot complete a lead, you never see it and you are not charged for it, and if a first email bounces, the lead is credited back.

Agents keep watching the public record for you. We add each new company as Companies House publishes it, and a company's name, status, registered office and filing dates are kept current the same way. Every lead comes with a dated reason to get in touch, such as accounts coming due. A company registered this month rarely has a website or a working email yet, so we hold it back until it can actually be reached.

Each lead is written individually, inside your own template with your logo, pictures, video and links: the opening line is about that company and the specific reason it turned up, so no two emails are the same, and your own words carry the offer. Everything waits for you to approve it, unless you switch Autopilot on, in which case your agents' cards go out on their own in your sending hours. Sending starts at five a day from your own mailbox and warms up slowly, and a reply lands in your own inbox, stops the follow-ups and shows on your Desk.

Company data comes from Companies House under the Open Government Licence. Websites and emails are found on each company's own site and checked against the filing, field by field, so every claim traces to a source. Nothing is bought from brokers, and no email address is guessed from a pattern. Leadistry covers UK companies only. Leads are bought once: 500 for £39, 1,500 for £79 or 4,000 for £149, or any number from 300. 100 free leads the moment you sign up, with no card: 50 now and 50 more as their reasons appear. Each shows the company, its email, the director's name, its website and why to get in touch now. Buy your first plan and 400 more leads come free, worth £31. Addresses, phone numbers and social pages show once you buy. Any company or person can ask to be removed at any time.