Guidance

Standard industrial classification of economic activities (SIC)

A condensed list of SIC codes for providing Companies House with a description of your company's nature of business.

• From: Companies House
• Published: 1 January 2008
• Last updated: 9 January 2018 — See all updates

Documents

Find your trade description or nature of business

http://resources.companieshouse.gov.uk/sic

Condensed SIC list in CSV format

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 35.7 KB

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Details

Companies House uses a condensed version of the full list of codes available from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

Only use SIC codes on the condensed list when filing to Companies House or your filing may be rejected.

This publication shows a condensed list of the ONS codes used to classify business establishments and other standard units by the type of economic activity in which they’re engaged.

Published 1 January 2008

Last updated 9 January 2018 + show all updates

1. 9 January 2018

   Attachment removed

2. 6 June 2016

   CSV format and link to online SIC code lookup added

3. 21 August 2015

   Added translation

4. 1 January 2008

   First published.