UK aesthetics is often described as a growth market. Companies House records show how literally that is true, and what it means for anyone selling into it.
Of the 20,269 venues in our November 2026 dataset, 9,101 are linked to a limited company with a known incorporation date. 4,358 of those companies (48%) were incorporated in 2022 or later.
New companies behind today's venues, by year of incorporation
| Year incorporated | Companies |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 261 |
| 2018 | 456 |
| 2021 | 625 |
| 2023 | 979 |
| 2024 | 1,036 |
| 2025 | 1,045 |
| 2026 (to 6 November) | 529 |
Base: 9,101 venues linked to a company with an incorporation date.
Four times as many of today's venues trace back to a 2025 company as to a 2015 one. 640 were incorporated in the last 12 months alone.
The pattern is the same for injectables. Of the 10,248 venues offering toxin, dermal fillers or skin boosters, 5,225 have a company record, and 2,578 of those (49%) date from 2022 or later.
One caution: these figures cover businesses trading today. Clinics that opened and closed earlier are no longer in the data, so the curve overstates growth somewhat. The direction is clear all the same.
The other side of growth: churn
A quarter of the companies linked to venues that are still listed online (2,377 of 9,537) now show as dissolved at Companies House. Among companies incorporated in 2022, 31% are already dissolved. For 2020, the figure is 39%.
Some of those clinics have moved to a new company, or now trade as a sole trader. Others have closed, but their listings, websites and directory entries live on. Either way, the record a sales team holds is no longer accurate.
Then there are the venues with no company at all. Around half the venues in our data have no matched Companies House record. Many are sole traders, or practitioners renting a room in a salon or a studio. They are real businesses buying real products, but they don't appear on any company register.
What this means for suppliers
- A list bought two years ago is missing a large share of today's market. In a market where nearly half the companies were set up since 2022, the newest clinics are often the most actively buying.
- The same list still includes clinics that no longer trade. Every closed account in a CRM wastes field time and skews territory planning.
- Company registers alone don't describe the market. With around half of venues trading outside limited companies, any list built only from Companies House will miss them.
- Reference data in aesthetics has to be maintained, not bought once. The value is in the refresh: new venues added, closures flagged, changes of ownership tracked.
How KalliData helps
KalliData maintains a reference database of more than 20,000 UK aesthetic venues, combining clinic websites, published treatment menus, Google and Companies House. Each venue has a single ID that stays stable as its details change, and the data is refreshed quarterly or delivered through a live API.
Ask us for a free gap report comparing your CRM with our data, or a free sample dataset for an area of your choice, at kallidata.co.uk.