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

47640 Retail sale of sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats and bicycles

SIC 47640 is the UK code for retail sale of sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats and bicycles, part of the class "retail sale of sporting equipment in specialised stores". Companies House accepts it when you register a company or file a confirmation statement.

Code
47640 (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
47.63 Retail sale of sporting equipment (1:2); 47.92 Intermediation service activities for specialised retail sale (1:2)
Closest US NAICS
459120

Activities ONS lists under 47640

The ONS index assigns these 10 activities to this code. If one describes your company, this is the code to use.

Source: ONS UK SIC 2007 alphabetical index.

What changes in SIC 2026

ONS published UK SIC 2026 in 2026. Its correspondence table maps this code's class (47.64) to:

SIC 2026 codeHeadingLink type
47.63Retail sale of sporting equipment1:2
47.92Intermediation service activities for specialised retail sale1:2

"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 47640 until it announces a switch.

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

Closest US NAICS codes

Matched through the shared international class (ISIC Rev. 4). Treat these as a starting point and read the definition before using one.

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