company.uk.profile

UK Company Profile

The standard registered record for a UK company: name, status, type, jurisdiction, incorporation date, SIC codes with their official descriptions and registered office.

Example answer

Ask

When was this UK company incorporated and what type of company is it?

GET /v1/companies/uk/00445790

Eckari

{
  "company_number": "00445790",
  "company_name": "TESCO PLC",
  "status": "active",
  "status_detail": null,
  "is_active": true,
  "is_striking_off": false,
  "type": "plc",
  "subtype": null,
  "jurisdiction": "england-wales",
  "date_of_creation": "1947-11-27",
  "date_of_cessation": null,
  "can_file": true,
  "undeliverable_registered_office_address": false,
  "registered_office_is_in_dispute": false,
  "sic_codes": [
    {
      "code": "47110",
      "description": "Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating"
    }
  ],
  "registered_office_address": {
    "care_of": null,
    "premises": null,
    "address_line_1": "Tesco House, Shire Park",
    "address_line_2": "Kestrel Way",
    "po_box": null,
    "locality": "Welwyn Garden City",
    "region": null,
    "postal_code": "AL7 1GA",
    "country": "United Kingdom"
  },
  "registered_office_single_line": "Tesco House, Shire Park, Kestrel Way, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1GA, United Kingdom",
  "previous_company_names": [
    {
      "name": "TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY",
      "effective_from": "1981-12-14",
      "ceased_on": "1983-08-25"
    },
    {
      "name": "TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) LIMITED",
      "effective_from": "1947-11-27",
      "ceased_on": "1981-12-14"
    }
  ],
  "confirmation_statement": {
    "last_made_up_to": "2026-06-18",
    "next_due": "2027-07-02",
    "next_made_up_to": "2027-06-18",
    "is_overdue": false
  },
  "accounts": {
    "accounting_reference_date": {
      "day": 26,
      "month": 2
    },
    "last_accounts": {
      "type": "group",
      "period_start_on": "2025-02-27",
      "period_end_on": "2026-02-28",
      "made_up_to": "2026-02-28"
    },
    "next_accounts": {
      "period_start_on": "2026-03-01",
      "period_end_on": "2027-02-26",
      "due_on": "2027-08-26",
      "is_overdue": false
    }
  },
  "resources": {
    "officers": true,
    "persons_with_significant_control": true,
    "persons_with_significant_control_statements": false,
    "persons_with_significant_control_exemptions": true,
    "filing_history": true,
    "charges": true,
    "insolvency": false
  }
}

Source: Companies House
Freshness: Live
Price: $0.004

Version: 3.0.0
Transport: HTTP / MCP
Coverage: GB

Use this when

You have a UK company number and need the standard registered record.
Give me the registered details of UK company 00445790.
When was this UK company incorporated and what type of company is it?
What are the SIC codes and registered office of this company?
Show the previous names of this limited company.
You are building a KYB or due-diligence summary and want one call for the profile.

Don't use this when

You only need to know if the company is active — use company.uk.status (cheaper).
You need officers, owners, filings or charges — use company.uk.directors, company.uk.owners, company.uk.filings or company.uk.charges.
You only have a name — use company.uk.search first.

If the user has asked you to inspect a specific website, page or URL, use your browsing tool instead — this capability only returns the Companies House Public Data API record.

Input

company_numberstringrequired

Companies House company number, also called the company registration number (CRN). The identifier itself is 1-8 letters/digits; surrounding whitespace is ignored (which is why maxLength is 10), but the value must not contain internal spaces. Short numeric values are zero-padded to 8 characters. A whitespace-only or over-long value is rejected as INVALID_INPUT before any payment or upstream call.

What the result means

company_numberstring

company_namestring

statusstring, null

Companies House company_status (e.g. active, dissolved, liquidation, administration, receivership, voluntary-arrangement, registered, removed, closed, open). Null when the register publishes none for the record.

status_detailstring, null

Companies House company_status_detail where present (e.g. active-proposal-to-strike-off, transferred-from-uk, transformed-to-se, converted-to-plc).

is_activeboolean

Derived by the same rule as company.uk.status, so the cheap check and the full profile can never disagree: true when status is one of active, open or registered — the three values the register uses for an entity still live on it. It is a liveness flag, not a good-standing flag, and it is false when the register publishes no status for the record.

is_striking_offboolean

Derived; true when status_detail is exactly active-proposal-to-strike-off (the registrar has published a proposal to strike the company off the register). Same rule as company.uk.status.

Provenance

Source: Companies House
Freshness: Live · read at request time, not cached
Region: GB
Attribution: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Companies House).

Access

Over MCP: company_uk_profile
Over HTTP: GET https://api.eckari.com/v1/companies/uk/{company_number}
Price: $0.004 per call over x402. Account access $0.003 when that rail opens.