New Company Registrations

1. Quarterly Data (Q3 Jul-Sep 2010)

   Q3 2010 saw a new record in company registrations in Rugby when compared to any previous Q3.

   A total of 167 companies were registered in Rugby during the third quarter of 2010 (Jul 2010 - Sep 2010).

   This figure is an increase of 46.5% versus the same period last year (Q3 2009). This figure compares well to the UK as a whole, which saw an increase of 7.2% against the same period last year.

   third quarter (Jul 2010 - Sep 2010)	Rugby	UK
   2010	167	101,492
   2009	114	94,671
   % change	46.5%	7.2%
   Record Year	2010 (167)	2003 (107,203)

   quarter	number of companies	uk quarter	uk companies	sort
   Q3 2010	167	Q3 2010	101492	1
   Q3 2009	114	Q3 2009	94671	1
   Q3 2008	151	Q3 2008	84894	1
   Q3 2007	130	Q3 2007	95412	1
   Q3 2006	97	Q3 2006	95504	1
   Q3 2005	78	Q3 2005	90727	1
   Q3 2004	82	Q3 2004	85252	1
   Q3 2003	114	Q3 2003	107203	1
   Q3 2002	86	Q3 2002	80207	1
   Q3 2001	65	Q3 2001	55588	1
   Q3 2010	167	Q3 2003	107203	2

   New Companies by Quarter

2. Monthly Data (Jul, Aug & Sep 2010)

   September 2010 saw a new record in company registrations in Rugby when compared to any previous September.

   August 2010 saw a new record in company registrations in Rugby when compared to any previous August.

   month	uk companies	number of companies
   Sep 2010	35149	64
   Aug 2010	32366	58
   Jul 2010	33977	45
   Jun 2010	35198	89
   May 2010	30031	53
   Apr 2010	33383	47
   Mar 2010	42779	75
   Feb 2010	33214	52
   Jan 2010	29144	45
   Dec 2009	25819	28
   Nov 2009	30706	35
   Oct 2009	29458	47

   New Companies by Month

   	July	August	September
   New companies in 2010	45	58	64
   New companies in 2009	41	33	40
   % change	9.8%	75.8%	60.0%
   Record Year	2008 (59)	2010 (58)	2010 (64)

Closed Companies (dissolved)

1. Quarterly Data (Q3 Jul-Sep 2010)

   A total of 140 companies were dissolved in Rugby during the third quarter of 2010 (Jul 2010 - Sep 2010).

   This figure is a decrease of 14.6% versus the same period last year (Q3 2009). This figure compares poorly to the UK as a whole, which saw a decrease of 45.0% against the same period last year.

   third quarter (Jul 2010 - Sep 2010)	Rugby	UK
   2010	140	87,705
   2009	164	159,401
   % change	-14.6%	-45.0%
   Record Year	2009 (164)	2009 (159,401)

   quarter	number of companies	uk quarter	uk companies	sort
   Q3 2010	140	Q3 2010	87705	1
   Q3 2009	164	Q3 2009	159401	1
   Q3 2008	105	Q3 2008	82747	1
   Q3 2007	86	Q3 2007	58665	1
   Q3 2006	74	Q3 2006	51444	1
   Q3 2005	61	Q3 2005	50134	1
   Q3 2004	57	Q3 2004	44295	1
   Q3 2003	52	Q3 2003	46606	1
   Q3 2002	43	Q3 2002	40963	1
   Q3 2001	34	Q3 2001	37611	1
   Q3 2009	164	Q3 2009	159401	2

   Dissolved Companies by Quarter

2. Monthly Data (Jul, Aug & Sep 2010)

   July 2010 saw a new record in company closures in Rugby when compared to any previous July.

   month	uk companies	number of companies
   Sep 2010	29093	49
   Aug 2010	32913	42
   Jul 2010	25699	49
   Jun 2010	35162	45
   May 2010	38045	53
   Apr 2010	21747	24
   Mar 2010	33870	32
   Feb 2010	24398	28
   Jan 2010	24409	23
   Dec 2009	31581	35
   Nov 2009	25313	38
   Oct 2009	28242	38

   Dissolved Companies by Month

   	July	August	September
   Closed companies in 2010	49	42	49
   Closed companies in 2009	41	52	71
   % change	19.5%	-19.2%	-31%
   Record Year	2010 (49)	2008 (86)	2009 (71)

Net Company Growth

1. Quarterly Data (Q3 Jul-Sep 2010)

   Net company growth for Rugby during the third quarter of 2010 (Jul 2010 - Sep 2010) was 27 companies.

   third quarter (Jul 2010 - Sep 2010)	Rugby	UK
   2010	27	13,787
   2009	-50	-64,730
   Record Year	2003 (62)	2003 (60,597)

   quarter	net	prev total	uk quarter	uk net	uk prev	sort
   Q3 2010	27	114	Q3 2010	13787	94671	1
   Q3 2009	-50	151	Q3 2009	-64730	84894	1
   Q3 2008	46	130	Q3 2008	2147	95412	1
   Q3 2007	44	97	Q3 2007	36747	95504	1
   Q3 2006	23	78	Q3 2006	44060	90727	1
   Q3 2005	17	82	Q3 2005	40593	85252	1
   Q3 2004	25	114	Q3 2004	40957	107203	1
   Q3 2003	62	86	Q3 2003	60597	80207	1
   Q3 2002	43	65	Q3 2002	39244	55588	1
   Q3 2001	31	61	Q3 2001	17977	58825	1
   Q3 2003	62	0	Q3 2003	60597	0	2

   Net Growth by Quarter

2. Monthly Data (Jul, Aug & Sep 2010)

   month	uk net	net
   Sep 2010	6056	15
   Aug 2010	-547	16
   Jul 2010	8278	-4
   Jun 2010	36	44
   May 2010	-8014	0
   Apr 2010	11636	23
   Mar 2010	8909	43
   Feb 2010	8816	24
   Jan 2010	4735	22
   Dec 2009	-5762	-7
   Nov 2009	5393	-3
   Oct 2009	1216	9

   Net Growth by Month

   	July	August	September
   Net growth in 2010	-4	16	15
   Net growth in 2009	0	-19	-31
   Record Year	2008 (53)	2003 (18)	2008 (36)

UK Company Share

1. Quarterly Data (Q3 Jul-Sep 2010)

   In the third quarter of 2010, Rugby formed 0.2% of all UK companies.

   third quarter (Jul 2010 - Sep 2010)	Rugby
   2010	0.2%
   2009	0.1%
   2008	0.2%
   2007	0.1%
   2006	0.1%
   Record Year (since 1960)	1968 (0.3%)

   quarter	percentage	num town	sort
   Q3 2010	0.1645	167	1
   Q3 2009	0.1204	114	1
   Q3 2008	0.1779	151	1
   Q3 2007	0.1363	130	1
   Q3 2006	0.1016	97	1
   Q3 2005	0.0860	78	1
   Q3 2004	0.0962	82	1
   Q3 2003	0.1063	114	1
   Q3 2002	0.1072	86	1
   Q3 2001	0.1169	65	1
   Q3 1968	0.3137	4	2

   Company Share by Quarter

2. Monthly Data (Jul, Aug & Sep 2010)

   month	percentage	num town
   Sep 2010	0.1821	64
   Aug 2010	0.1792	58
   Jul 2010	0.1324	45
   Jun 2010	0.2529	89
   May 2010	0.1765	53
   Apr 2010	0.1408	47
   Mar 2010	0.1753	75
   Feb 2010	0.1566	52
   Jan 2010	0.1544	45
   Dec 2009	0.1084	28
   Nov 2009	0.1140	35
   Oct 2009	0.1595	47

   Company Share by Month

   	July	August	September
   UK formation share in 2010	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
   UK formation share in 2009	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
   % change	2.1%	59.4%	53.4%
   Record Year	1961 (0.4%)	1963 (0.5%)	1968 (0.7%)

Director Age

1. Quarterly Data (Q3 Jul-Sep 2010)

   The average age of a director in the third quarter of 2010 was 46.9.

   The percentage of directors under the age of 25 was 2.9% compared to the UK figure of 2.7%.

   The percentage of directors over the age of 65 was 4.4% compared to the UK figure of 4.4%.

   quarter	average age	over 65	under 25	uk average age	uk under 25	uk over 65
   Q3 2010	46.9167	4.4118	2.9412	44.1040	2.6545	4.3760
   Q3 2009	45.8304	4.6784	1.1696	45.0196	1.9363	5.1277
   Q3 2008	45.5196	2.9412	0.4902	45.7773	1.2079	5.3952
   Q3 2007	46.5022	2.6667	1.3333	46.7855	0.7349	6.2511
   Q3 2006	49.6952	9.5238	0.0000	47.6734	0.4904	6.9245
   Q3 2005	47.8802	6.5868	0.5988	48.5090	0.2806	7.7910
   Q3 2004	49.6011	9.8361	0.5464	49.3684	0.1860	9.1307
   Q3 2003	53.1029	14.8148	0.0000	50.5510	0.1275	10.1545
   Q3 2002	51.2836	9.9502	0.0000	51.6440	0.1157	11.8134
   Q3 2001	50.6039	7.1429	0.6494	51.8211	0.1238	12.0478

   Director Age by Quarter

Director Gender

1. Quarterly Data (Q3 Jul-Sep 2010)

   The record third quarter for female directors in Rugby was in 1862 when 50.0% of all directors were female.

   27.0% of all director appointments in Rugby in the third quarter of 2010 were female. This compares to a UK average of 25.2% for the same period.

   quarter	percentage female	uk quarter	uk percentage female	sort
   Q3 2010	27.0042	Q3 2010	25.1918	1
   Q3 2009	25.0000	Q3 2009	25.6133	1
   Q3 2008	32.0000	Q3 2008	26.2196	1
   Q3 2007	33.7079	Q3 2007	26.8994	1
   Q3 2006	30.2128	Q3 2006	26.9861	1
   Q3 2005	33.1579	Q3 2005	26.4092	1
   Q3 2004	30.6122	Q3 2004	27.0507	1
   Q3 2003	30.1818	Q3 2003	29.5942	1
   Q3 2002	34.0909	Q3 2002	29.4906	1
   Q3 2001	28.5714	Q3 2001	26.1062	1
   Q3 1862	50.0000	Q3 1938	71.4286	2

   Director Gender by Quarter

Naming Trends

1. Previous 12 months (Sep 2009-Sep 2010)

   Excluding: LIMITED, LTD, &, UK, SERVICES, THE, (UK), AND, LTD., A, LLP, SOLUTIONS, COMPANY, OF.

   word	percentage	uk word	uk percentage
   CO.,	1.89%	MANAGEMENT	5.06%
   TRANSPORT	1.51%	CONSULTING	4.99%
   RUGBY	1.32%	CONSULTANCY	3.12%
   GROUP	1.23%	PROPERTY	2.38%
   INTERNATIONAL	1.23%	TRADING	2.04%
   MANAGEMENT	1.13%	ASSOCIATES	2.01%
   LOGISTICS	0.94%	DESIGN	1.93%
   C	0.85%	CONSTRUCTION	1.86%
   HAULAGE	0.85%	BUSINESS	1.80%
   EUROPE	0.85%	MEDIA	1.75%
   TRANS	0.76%	CONSULTANTS	1.73%
   TRADE	0.76%	LONDON	1.59%
   CONSULTANCY	0.76%	ENGINEERING	1.59%
   J	0.76%	INVESTMENTS	1.49%
   ENTERPRISES	0.66%	CARE	1.44%
   GLOBAL	0.66%	J	1.44%
   CONSULTING	0.66%	INTERNATIONAL	1.43%
   TRADING	0.66%	GLOBAL	1.42%
   PROPERTY	0.66%	IT	1.35%
   S	0.66%	PROPERTIES	1.35%
   CARE	0.57%	BUILDING	1.32%
   TECHNOLOGY	0.57%	ELECTRICAL	1.30%
   DESIGN	0.57%	M	1.28%
   PVT	0.57%	SYSTEMS	1.26%
   H	0.47%	S	1.24%

SIC Data

1. Previous 36 months, excluding companies less than 12 months old

   sic code	number of companies	uk companies
   None Supplied	255	202,902
   7487 - Other business activities	82	69,802
   7499 - Non-trading company	40	13,408
   6024 - Freight transport by road	34	2,771
   7414 - Business & management consultancy	33	14,940
   74990 - Non-trading company	31	7,649
   70229 - Management consultancy activities other than financial management	31	13,161
   9999 - Dormant Company	30	21,484
   49410 - Freight transport by road	29	1,915
   82990 - Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified	21	25,053
   9305 - Other service activities	18	9,454
   99999 - Dormant Company	18	14,072
   7260 - Other computer related activities	17	8,967
   4521 - General construction & civil engineering	13	7,634
   7222 - Other software consultancy and supply	12	8,183
   62020 - Information technology consultancy activities	9	8,292
   96090 - Other service activities not elsewhere classified	9	7,767
   74909 - Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified	7	6,460
   68100 - Buying and selling of own real estate	7	2,447
   45200 - Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles	6	1,879

Recent Companies

1. Randomly selected companies from this quarter

   COMPANY NUMBER	COMPANY NAME	INCORPORATION DATE
   07389995	LUISITANIA LIMITED	28 Sep 2010
   07389883	CLOUDWALKING LIMITED	28 Sep 2010
   07389739	DMB EUROPE LIMITED	28 Sep 2010
   07387349	MARUTI AUTO REPAIRS LTD	24 Sep 2010
   07384991	ROXHILL (PETERBOROUGH) LIMITED	23 Sep 2010
   07384079	EIZ GLOBAL LTD	22 Sep 2010
   07383282	HERA LIGHTING UK LTD	21 Sep 2010
   07381938	MC TRANSPORT EUROPE LIMITED	21 Sep 2010
   07381860	DAVE CROOKES LIMITED	20 Sep 2010
   07379936	PAUL PALMER LIMITED	17 Sep 2010
   07377496	AQUARIUS TRANSPORT SERVICES LIMITED	15 Sep 2010
   07368999	LES TRANS LTD	08 Sep 2010
   07366882	PASSION4CAREPROFESSIONALS AGENCY LTD	06 Sep 2010
   07365450	CARS OF RUGBY LIMITED	03 Sep 2010
   07365289	SLG14 UK LIMITED	03 Sep 2010
   07364948	LINK ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS LTD	03 Sep 2010
   07363634	ARROWSMITH ELECTRICAL LIMITED	02 Sep 2010
   OC358164	RUGBY CAR CARE LLP	24 Sep 2010
   07391113	BEATON BUSINESS SERVICES LTD	29 Sep 2010
   07390614	JK MAZUR LTD	28 Sep 2010
   07363745	FIBROMYALGIA UK ORG LTD	02 Sep 2010
   07391104	MIDLAND PRECISION METALWORK LIMITED	29 Sep 2010
   07380597	MSS NITROGEN LIMITED	20 Sep 2010
   07377357	ASTRID SOLUTIONS LTD	15 Sep 2010
   07368989	D G PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS LIMITED	08 Sep 2010