New Companies: Companies House UK, France, Norway, Finland

New Company Registrations: UK, France, Norway, Finland

Get a feed of newly registered companies from four official registers, ready for weekly prospecting: UK Companies House, France BODACC, Norway Brønnøysund and Finland PRH. Every row has the company name, company number, legal form, registration date, activity code (SIC / NACE) with description, registered address and a link to the official register page.

Built for schedules. Turn on Only new since last run and schedule the Actor weekly (Apify Schedules, n8n, Make or Zapier). Each run returns only companies that this feed has not delivered before, so you never get or pay for the same company twice.

About 20,000 new companies a week across the four countries (week of 7–13 November 2026: UK 13,783 · France 4,409 · Norway 1,400 · Finland 407). A full week of all four registers takes about 30 seconds.

Unofficial tool. Not affiliated with Companies House, DILA/BODACC, the Brønnøysund Register Centre or PRH. The data comes from their open, keyless public services (see Where does the data come from?).

What data you get

One row per new company.

Field	Example	Description
country, register	GB, Companies House	Register the company comes from (GB, FR, NO, FI)
companyNumber	17580244	Companies House number, SIREN (France), organisation number (Norway) or business ID (Finland)
companyName	LEOZ KEBAB & PIZZA LTD	Registered name
legalForm, legalFormCode	Private limited company, ltd	Legal form as named by the register, plus a short code you can filter on (ltd, llp, SAS, SARL, SCI, AS, OY…)
status	active	Status in the register
registrationDate	2026-11-13	Incorporation / registration date
publishedDate	2026-11-12	France only: publication date of the BODACC creation notice
activityCodes, activityDescriptions	["56103"], ["Take-away food shops and mobile food stands"]	SIC 2007 (UK), SN2025 (Norway), TOL 2025 (Finland) or NAF (France, from the SIRENE register) codes with descriptions
activityText	Restauration rapide sur place et à emporter	Activity in the company's own words (France, Norway)
address, postalCode, city, region, addressCountry	500 White Hart Lane London, England, N17 7NA, N17 7NA, …	Registered office / business address
shareCapital, shareCapitalCurrency	1000, EUR	Share capital (France, Norway)
website	https://www.example.fi	Website when the company registered one (Norway, Finland)
registerUrl	https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17580244	The company's page in the official register
scrapedAt	2026-11-13T17:06:33.349Z	When the row was collected

Field fill rates in a full week (7–13 Nov 2026): UK activity code 99 %, address and postcode 100 %; France NAF code 85 % (companies from the last few days often have none yet), activity text 90 %, registration date 79 % (publication date 100 %), share capital 98 %; Norway activity code 62 % (many new entities get their code later), share capital 50 %; Finland activity code 92 %, website 6 %.

How to use

1. Pick the countries and the window: registered in the last N days (default 7) or a from/to date.
2. Optionally narrow it down:
   • Activity codes: digit prefixes such as 56 (food and drink), 62 (software and IT), 41–43 (construction), 68 (real estate), 86 (health), or full codes like 56101 (UK licensed restaurants).
   • Keywords: words in the name or activity description, e.g. restaurant, software, logiciel, bygg.
   • Locations: postal-code prefixes (SW1, M1, 75, 0150) or place names (London, Lyon, Oslo, Helsinki).
   • Legal forms: ltd, llp, plc, SAS, SASU, SARL, SCI, AS, OY…
3. For a recurring feed, turn on Only new since last run and add a schedule. Click Start and download CSV, Excel or JSON, or let your workflow pick up the results.

Example: new restaurants and takeaways in the UK this week:

{
    "countries": ["GB"],
    "daysBack": 7,
    "activityCodes": ["5610"]
}

Example: weekly feed of new software companies in London and Manchester, only companies not delivered before:

{
    "countries": ["GB"],
    "daysBack": 8,
    "activityCodes": ["62"],
    "locations": ["London", "Manchester"],
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
    "stateKey": "uk-software-london-manchester",
    "maxItems": 5000
}

Example: new restaurant companies (NAF 56.10) in Paris and Lyon, SAS and SARL only:

{
    "countries": ["FR"],
    "daysBack": 14,
    "activityCodes": ["5610"],
    "locations": ["75", "Lyon"],
    "legalForms": ["SAS", "SARL"]
}

Weekly feeds with n8n, Make or Zapier

1. Save your input as an Apify task with onlyNewSinceLastRun: true and a stateKey (e.g. uk-new-restaurants).
2. Schedule the task weekly (or daily) in Apify, or call it from n8n / Make / Zapier with the Apify integration.
3. Use a window a bit longer than the schedule (e.g. 8–10 days for a weekly run) so late registrations are not missed. The feed memory makes sure each company is delivered only once.
4. Read the run's dataset in the next step of your workflow (CRM, Google Sheets, e-mail enrichment…).

The memory is kept for each filter combination (or stateKey) in a key-value store named new-company-registrations-state in your own Apify account. A new stateKey starts a fresh feed.

Pricing

You pay per company returned: $3.00 per 1,000 companies ($0.003 each), plus Apify's small per-run start fee. A weekly feed of all new UK restaurants and takeaways (SIC 5610x, ~790 a week in November 2026) costs about $2.40 a week; every new company in all four countries for a week (~20,000) costs about $60. Companies skipped by your filters or by Only new since last run are not charged.

On the Apify Free plan a run returns at most 100 companies.

Example output

[
    {
        "country": "GB",
        "register": "Companies House",
        "companyNumber": "17580244",
        "companyName": "LEOZ KEBAB & PIZZA LTD",
        "legalForm": "Private limited company",
        "legalFormCode": "ltd",
        "status": "active",
        "registrationDate": "2026-11-13",
        "publishedDate": null,
        "activityCodes": ["56103"],
        "activityDescriptions": ["Take-away food shops and mobile food stands"],
        "activityText": null,
        "address": "500 White Hart Lane London, England, N17 7NA",
        "postalCode": "N17 7NA",
        "city": null,
        "region": null,
        "addressCountry": "England",
        "shareCapital": null,
        "shareCapitalCurrency": null,
        "website": null,
        "registerUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17580244",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-11-13T17:06:33.349Z"
    },
    {
        "country": "NO",
        "register": "Brønnøysundregistrene",
        "companyNumber": "838858562",
        "companyName": "ABSOLUTE MERIT AS",
        "legalForm": "Aksjeselskap",
        "legalFormCode": "AS",
        "status": "registered",
        "registrationDate": "2026-11-12",
        "publishedDate": null,
        "activityCodes": ["63910"],
        "activityDescriptions": ["Drift av søkemotorer"],
        "activityText": "Drift av web-portaler.",
        "address": "Solveien 27E, 1177 OSLO",
        "postalCode": "1177",
        "city": "OSLO",
        "region": "OSLO",
        "addressCountry": "Norge",
        "shareCapital": 30000,
        "shareCapitalCurrency": "NOK",
        "website": null,
        "registerUrl": "https://virksomhet.brreg.no/nb/oppslag/enheter/838858562",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-11-13T17:06:33.349Z"
    }
]

Use cases

• Sell to new businesses first: accountants, banks, insurers, payment and POS providers, web agencies, office suppliers and recruiters reach companies in their first weeks, before anyone else calls.
• Sector lead feeds: every new restaurant, construction firm, clinic or software company in your region, every week.
• Market monitoring: count new companies per sector and region to spot growth markets.
• Enrichment pipelines: feed new company names and numbers into your enrichment tools (website, e-mail, LinkedIn) in n8n, Make or Clay.

Integrations

• API: start runs and download results with the Apify API or the Apify JavaScript/Python clients.
• Scheduling: run weekly or daily with Apify Schedules.
• n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets: send new companies straight into your workflow via Apify integrations.
• Webhooks: get notified when a run finishes.
• AI agents (MCP): let Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client pull new companies through the Apify MCP server.

Limits and FAQ

Where does the data come from? Is it legal? From the registers' own open services, without any key or login: the Companies House advanced company search and its CSV download, the BODACC open data API (Licence Ouverte), the Brønnøysund Enhetsregisteret API (NLOD) and the PRH open data API (CC BY 4.0). These registers are public by law. The Actor sends few, paced requests (one request per day of the window for the UK).

What is left out, and why? Companies only, never people. Sole traders are always skipped (France: natural persons in BODACC; Norway: enkeltpersonforetak), because their name is a person's name. Directors, officers and shareholders are never collected. "c/o" address lines that name a person are removed (c/o an accountant or formation agent is kept). Dormant UK companies (SIC 99999) and non-trading companies (74990) are left out by default (excludeDormant).

Why are activity codes different between countries? The UK uses SIC 2007 (based on NACE Rev. 2). Norway and Finland moved to codes based on NACE Rev. 2.1 in 2025, so some classes differ (restaurants are 5610x in the UK and 5611x in Norway and Finland). A 2-digit prefix such as 56 works everywhere.

Where do French activity codes come from? BODACC notices have no activity code, so each French company that passes your other filters is looked up in the official SIRENE register (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr) for its NAF code (enrichFrance, on by default, no extra charge). About 85 % of new companies already have a code; companies registered in the last few days may not yet, and are then left out when you filter by activity code (the run reports how many). Lookups run at about 3 per second, so a full week of all of France takes ~25 minutes: turn enrichFrance off for fast bulk exports and filter with keywords instead.

Why does France lag a few days? France publishes creations in the BODACC a few days after registration. For France the date window applies to the publication date; registrationDate is filled when the notice gives it (about 4 in 5).

Why no e-mail addresses or phone numbers? The registers do not publish them. Use the company name, number and address with your enrichment tool.

How fast is it? About 30 seconds for a full week of all four countries (~20,000 companies) without French activity codes. The UK takes one request per day in the window; French activity codes add about one second per three French companies.

Something broke? Open an issue on the Issues tab with your input and it will be looked at promptly.

Changelog / maintained

Last verified working: 2026-11-13 (all four registers, full week, only-new mode; completeness checked against each register's own count: 547/547 Norway, 129/129 France-Paris, 257/257 UK, 108/108 Finland). See the changelog tab for changes.