Companies House logged 118 new firms at Bournemouth addresses in August, from a Charminster Road shawarma bar to a Winton coffee company. BH8 leads.

A total of 118 new companies were registered at Bournemouth addresses in August, according to Companies House. That is the count across the BH1 to BH11 postcodes, checked against the register at the end of the month.

Food is a big part of the list. These six are food businesses of one kind or another:

  • Hawler Shawarma Ltd, registered 21 August at 45 Charminster Road, classed as a take-away food shop
  • Tropical Tokyo Ltd, registered 25 August in Commercial Road, classed as an unlicensed restaurant or cafe and take-away
  • Carper’s Coffee Limited, registered 25 August at 906 Wimborne Road, classed under production of coffee and coffee substitutes
  • Down The Hatch Convenience Ltd, registered 3 August at 319 Holdenhurst Road, a convenience retailer
  • Liya Mini Market Ltd, registered 13 August at 680 Christchurch Road in Boscombe, a convenience retailer that also lists tobacco sales
  • Bou Mini Market Limited, registered 7 August in St Albans Avenue, whose filing records its trade, presumably by a slip of the form, as “growing of rice”

Where they are

BH8 has the most new companies, with 22. BH1 and BH2 are next with 20 each.

Bar chart of new companies registered in August 2026 by Bournemouth postcode area, corrected count: BH8 22, BH1 and BH2 20 each, BH11 Kinson and BH9 Winton 10 each, BH5 Boscombe 9, BH4 Westbourne and BH6 Southbourne 7 each, BH10 Ensbury Park and BH7 5 each, BH3 3

The full split: 22 in BH8, 20 each in BH1 and BH2, 10 each in BH11 (Kinson) and BH9 (Winton), nine in BH5 (Boscombe), seven each in BH4 (Westbourne) and BH6 (Southbourne), five each in BH10 (Ensbury Park) and BH7, and three in BH3.

Beyond the food businesses, the register shows the usual Bournemouth mix:

  • Trades and services: Super Bin Bros Ltd, a specialised cleaning firm in Broadway Lane; A&G Delta Construct Ltd in Ensbury Park; Exterior Edge Group Ltd; DMC Repairs and Small Works Limited in Boscombe
  • Tech: Gigzilla Ltd, a software developer registered 20 August in BH10, plus AJC Software Ltd in Westbourne and Dataverge Technologies Ltd in the town centre
  • Health and retail: Spine Centre UK Limited, registered 20 August at 70 Seabourne Road and classed as a retailer of medical and orthopaedic goods
  • Money: Pelorus Wealth Ltd, registered 13 August in Southbourne under activities auxiliary to financial intermediation
  • Media and production: Scoria Productions Ltd, Pursuit Productions Limited, True Peak Media Ltd and BH8 Entertainments Limited

What a registration does and does not mean

A Companies House registration records an intention, not an opening. Some of these will become shops and firms you can walk into. Others will trade quietly from home, and some will never trade at all.

The registered office is not always the place of business either. Tropical Tokyo’s registered address, for instance, is a flat in Commercial Road. Where we name a street above, that is the address on the register, nothing more.

A few register entries were left out of the count because they are not actually in Bournemouth. Two companies registered at Bournemouth Airport are in Christchurch, and four more matched only because they sit on a road called Bournemouth Road, in Poole and in Chandler’s Ford near Eastleigh.

What it means for you

Each name above links to its free Companies House record, and you can look up any company the same way: directors, filing history and accounts, at no cost. It is worth doing before you pay a deposit to any new firm.

The register cuts both ways, and we report the other side too. Our news pages carry the insolvency notices for the area as they are gazetted, and 118 new registrations in a month is the context those notices sit in. For what is being built to house all this, see our Bournemouth planning news page.

Sources

  • Companies House register, searched for companies incorporated in August 2026 with registered offices in the BH1 to BH11 postcodes, checked 31 August 2026 and re-counted in full on 1 October 2026. Each named company links to its own register entry, where the incorporation date, address and SIC trade classification are recorded.

Correction, 1 October 2026: this story first said 39 companies were registered in August. That count came from a capped search that returned only part of the register. A full search of Companies House on 1 October finds 118 companies incorporated in August with registered offices in BH1 to BH11. The headline, the postcode figures and the chart have been corrected. The companies named above are unchanged. Our September count uses the full search.