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UK government service that maintains the register of companies and provides online access to company data.

Overview

Companies House is a government service that provides online tools to find and update company information, view company data and document images, and manage company filings. It operates under GOV.UK and is intended for business owners, professionals and the public seeking up-to-date corporate details.

Mission statement

To maintain a reliable, accessible register of company information and help the public, businesses and professionals access up-to-date data.

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What we offer

Companies House Online Service

Manage and update company information quickly and efficiently online.

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Market segments

Market size by segment

Growth potential (CAGR)

Corporate governance and secretarial compliance

6.75 Billion USD4.8% CAGR

Corporate secretarial services, regulatory filings, and ongoing advisory to ensure governance, jurisdictional compliance, and audit readiness.

Products: Companies House Online Service

Public company data access and search

3 Billion USD10.5% CAGR

Services that provide searchable, public access to company data and historical records including advanced and alphabetical search, dissolved company lookups, company data viewing and document images.

Products: Companies House Online Service

Identity verification

16.5 Billion USD15.5% CAGR

Real-time, cross-border KYC/KYB identity and document verification using global data sources to validate customers during onboarding and continuous lifecycle checks.

Products: Companies House Online Service

Document retrieval and certified document ordering

2 Billion USD6% CAGR

Capabilities to view, retrieve and order document images, certificates and certified copies of filed records for legal, audit or transactional purposes.

Products: Companies House Online Service

More information about our offering

Companies House Online Service

The Companies House online service is a government platform designed to facilitate the efficient management of company information. Users can find and update company records, view data and document images, and file necessary paperwork, ensuring compliance with legal requirements.

Pricing not published

  • Access Up-to-Date Company Information
    Get immediate insights into your company’s records, vital for informed decision-making.
  • File Abridged Accounts Easily
    Submit summarized financial statements swiftly, ensuring compliance while saving time.
  • Submit Full Financial Reports
    Easily file comprehensive accounts, ensuring legal compliance and transparency.
  • Order Necessary Documents Quickly
    Easily request essential legal documents to support your business operations.
  • Update Office Address Online
    Quickly amend official address information to reflect changes in your business operations.
  • Conduct Detailed Company Searches
    Search comprehensively for company data using various filters and criteria.
  • Track Company Updates
    Stay informed about changes within companies of interest effortlessly.
  • Verify Director Eligibility
    Ensure compliance by checking the status of directors before engagement.
  • Verify Name Availability
    Ensure your chosen company name can be registered, preventing future conflicts.
  • Inspect Filed Documents
    Access and review official documents submitted by companies for transparency.
  • Find Companies by Name Alphabetically
    Locate companies easily using alphabetical sorting when unsure of specific details.
  • Access Historical Company Data
    Find records of dissolved companies to understand historical business activity.

Sources

Methodology and sourcing behind the figures and links shown above.

Corporate governance and secretarial compliance

Estimate derived by combining explicit market figures for company secretarial software (USD 5.71B, 2024) and corporate secretarial services (USD 1.04B, 2026) from the provided search results, yielding ~USD 6.75B for the corporate governance & secretarial compliance segment. Growth potential is a weighted average of the cited CAGRs for software (5.15%) and services (2.9%), producing ~4.8% CAGR. Broader GRC market reports (USD 65.08B, CAGR ~15.6%) and regional studies (APAC countries projected USD 3.67B by 2034) were used as context indicating potential upside if adjacent GRC offerings are included.

Public company data access and search

No direct market-size figure for “public company data access and search” appeared in the provided results. I estimated this as a niche subset of Data-as-a-Service / business information markets. Supporting signals: (1) large adjacent markets for data storage and DaaS with high growth (data storage: USD 255.29B; DaaS/Big Data-as-a-Service showing high reported CAGRs), indicating strong underlying demand and infrastructure; (2) comparable specialized B2B data/security niches (access control ≈ USD 12.01B) are single-digit-to-low-double-digit billions. Combining these analogues and typical share-of-DaaS for company-data services yields an estimated global market size of about USD 3.0B and a moderate-to-strong adoption-driven CAGR ~10.5%.

Identity verification

Synthesis of recent market-research reports (MarketsandMarkets, Juniper, Fortune Business Insights, Persistence) shows mid-2020s market size in the mid-teens (USD 14–19B) and consistent forecast CAGRs around 15%+ to 2030s. I selected US$16.5B (Persistence’s 2026 estimate) as a representative current-market figure and a 15.5% CAGR (average of reported 15.4–15.6% values) reflecting consensus growth potential through the forecast period.

Document retrieval and certified document ordering

Estimate based on positioning this niche (document retrieval and certified copy ordering) as a specialized subsegment of broader document services markets found in the search results. Broader market figures in 2026: EDMS ~$9.7B, document outsourcing ~$8.93B, document scanning ~$3.76B, and document storage/management ~$22.01B. Conservatively assume retrieval/certified-ordering represents a modest share of outsourcing/scanning activities (includes on-demand retrieval, certified copies, and fulfillment), giving an estimated addressable market of about $2.0B in 2026. Growth projected near the mid-point of observed rates for storage/outsourcing/scanning (5–6%); therefore a 6.0% CAGR is used as a pragmatic expectation for this service niche as digitization and compliance needs sustain steady demand.

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