UK SIC 2007 code in Section G: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles

47250 Retail sale of beverages in specialised stores

SIC 47250 is the UK code for retail sale of beverages in specialised stores. Companies House accepts it when you register a company or file a confirmation statement.

Code: 47250 (UK SIC 2007, Companies House list)
Section: Section G: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
Division: 47 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
SIC 2026: 47.25 Retail sale of beverages (1:2); 47.92 Intermediation service activities for specialised retail sale (1:2)

Activities ONS lists under 47250

The ONS index assigns these 8 activities to this code. If one describes your company, this is the code to use.

Alcoholic beverages (retail)
Beer (retail)
Hydroalcoholic solution, undenatured, containing by volume less than 80% ethyl alcohol (retail)
Non-alcoholic beverages (retail)
Off licence (not public house) (retail)
Soft drinks (retail)
Wine and spirit merchant (retail)
Wine and spirits (retail)

Source: ONS UK SIC 2007 alphabetical index.

Businesses that use this code

Liquor store or off-licence

What changes in SIC 2026

ONS published UK SIC 2026 in 2026. Its correspondence table maps this code's class (47.25) to:

SIC 2026 code	Heading	Link type
47.25	Retail sale of beverages	1:2
47.92	Intermediation service activities for specialised retail sale	1:2

"1:1" means the class carries over unchanged in scope; other link types mean it was split or merged. Companies House still uses SIC 2007, so keep filing with 47250 until it announces a switch.

Source: ONS correspondence table, SIC 2007 to SIC 2026.

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Data last changed November 14, 2026. Source: Companies House condensed SIC list. How this page is built.