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44% of wholesale of wine accounts filed on 30 June were in deficit
34,696 sets of company accounts were filed with Companies House on 30 June 2026. This is what they show.
One industry stands out in the accounts filed with Companies House on 30 June 2026. Of the 41 companies in wholesale of wine businesses that filed that day, 18 reported liabilities larger than assets, or 44 per cent, against 19 per cent across all 34,281 filings.
Key points
- 34,696 sets of accounts were filed with Companies House on 30 June 2026.
- 6,411 of them, 19 per cent, reported net liabilities rather than net assets.
- 10,467 filings showed a weaker position than the prior year, against 19,150 that improved.
- The filings cover 10,329,156 employees between them.
- Wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages had the highest share in deficit at 44 per cent of 41 filings.
What happened
Companies House publishes every set of accounts filed with it as open data on the day it is received. On 30 June 2026 that amounted to 34,696 filings, of which 34,281 carried a balance sheet figure we could read. Those are the accounts this report covers.
Of them, 6,411 reported net liabilities: the company owed more than it owned at its balance sheet date. That is 19 per cent.
The numbers
Every set of accounts carries the prior year alongside the current one, so each filing shows its own direction of travel. On 30 June 2026, 10,467 filings were weaker than a year earlier and 19,150 were stronger, meaning 35 per cent of those with a comparable prior year went backwards. That is above the 17 per cent average across the days measured so far.
Who filed most
| Industry | Filings | In deficit |
|---|---|---|
| Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate | 2,007 | 22% |
| Buying and selling of own real estate | 1,882 | 30% |
| Management consultancy activities other than financial management | 1,433 | 16% |
| Other business support service activities n.e.c. | 1,185 | 19% |
| Information technology consultancy activities | 862 | 17% |
| Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet | 830 | 23% |
Where the deficits are concentrated
Ranked by the share of filings reporting net liabilities, among industries with at least 30 filings that day.
| Industry | Filings | In deficit |
|---|---|---|
| Wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages | 41 | 44% |
| Physical well-being activities | 59 | 39% |
| Licensed restaurants | 353 | 37% |
| Manufacture of jewellery and related articles | 30 | 37% |
| Sports and recreation education | 79 | 35% |
| Unlicensed restaurants and cafes | 233 | 34% |
By registered office
Towns with at least 20 filings that day. A registered office is an address for service and not necessarily where a business trades, so this is a weaker signal than the industry split.
| Town | Filings | In deficit |
|---|---|---|
| Halesowen | 24 | 42% |
| Rickmansworth | 29 | 38% |
| Welling | 22 | 36% |
| Bexley | 20 | 35% |
| Dudley | 36 | 33% |
What this does and does not mean
Net liabilities are not the same thing as insolvency. A company funded by its parent, or by a director loan, or one that is early in its life and still carrying losses forward, can report negative net assets for years while paying everything it owes. The figure is a fact about a filing, not a verdict on a business.
Companies House does not verify the information filed with it. Everything here is what companies reported about themselves.
What happens next
The next batch of accounts is published the following working day, and this report runs again. The series builds a picture no single filing can give: whether the share of British companies filing accounts that do not balance is rising, and which industries are carrying it.
The series so far
How this was produced. Companies House publishes every set of accounts filed with it as open data. Cap News downloads that file each working day, reads the tagged figures out of each filing and joins them to the company register. Nothing here is hand picked. The method sets out what is counted and what is not.