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.

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Companies House uses a condensed version of the full list of codes available from the .

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鈥檙e engaged.

Updates to this page

Published 1 January 2008
Last updated 9 January 2018
  1. Attachment removed

  2. CSV format and link to online SIC code lookup added

  3. Added translation

  4. First published.

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