Manufacturing leads. Of the 6,720 UK companies administrator.uk tracks in administration, 1,058 (15.7%) are in manufacturing. The full ranking is below, each classified by the primary SIC code on its public register record.
Every UK company files one or more SIC codes on the public register describing what it does. We take the first code on each company's record and map it to a broad sector. A company whose primary code does not fall into one of the sectors we track is grouped under Other sectors.
These are the companies currently recorded in administration that we track, not a complete historical count. A company that has since been sold and moved to dissolution, or converted to a Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation, leaves this table and appears under its new status. So read the figures as a snapshot of where distress sits right now, sector by sector, rather than a running total of every administration ever.
A single SIC code is a blunt instrument. A company can trade well outside the activity it registered, and holding companies often sit under a generic code. We publish the breakdown because the broad shape is useful and verifiable against the public record, not because a SIC code is the last word on what a business did.
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