795 businesses in Croydon appear in HMRC customs records for the last six months. It ranks 16 of 32 trading locations in Greater London. Most of that activity sits in electrical machinery and electronics, machinery and mechanical appliances, plastics. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to pick up by around 8.7% over the next three months.
Refreshed every 24 hours · last run 22 Aug 2026, 20:36HMRC release in view: Jun 26Snapshot: 2026-08-22.1
9,793Import declarations▼ 2.1% on the 6 months before
3,275Export declarations
+8.7%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
795Trading businesses
Top 5 businesses by 6-month activity Free tier
Ranked by declaration volume and months active. Hover any bar in the 24-month indicators for that month's figures. Log in for keyword search and HMRC category filters across all 795 businesses.
★ Most active in CroydonFiled more customs declarations than any other Croydon business over the last six months — roughly 10% of the town's total import activity, mostly in oil seeds.
Most active business
CHANEL LIMITED
948 import declarations675 export declarationsCR9 *Ch. 12Ch. 14Ch. 18Ch. 22Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include travelling-bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, shopping-bags, map-cases, tool bags, sports bags, jewellery boxes, cutlery cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar conta, footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics or composition leather, with uppers of leather (excl. covering the ankle, incorporating a protective metal toecap, sports footwear, orthopaedic footwear and toy footwear), footwear with outer soles and uppers of leather (excl. covering the ankle, incorporating a protective metal toecap, with uppers which consist of leather straps across the instep and around the big toe, sports footwear, orthopaedic footwear and toy fo.
▼ Expected to slow by 0.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity948 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity675 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
SUPERDRUG STORES PLC
230 import declarations163 export declarationsCR0 *Ch. 17Ch. 18Ch. 21Ch. 30Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include perfumes and toilet waters (excl. aftershave lotions, personal deodorants and hair lotions), food preparations, n.e.s., non-electric razors of base metal.
▼ Expected to slow by 10.1% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity230 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity163 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
POLISH SPECIALITIES LTD
337 import declarations3 export declarationsCR0 *Ch. 04Ch. 07Ch. 09Ch. 11Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the, vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar, non-frozen (excl. preserved by sugar, homogenised vegetables of subheading 2005.10, and tomatoes, mushrooms, truffles, potatoes, peas "pisum sativum", beans "vign, vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid (excl. cucumbers and gherkins).
▲ Expected to increase by 7.6% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity337 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity3 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
VOITH TURBO LTD
409 import declarations102 export declarationsCR0 *Ch. 27Ch. 34Ch. 35Ch. 39Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include threaded screws and bolts, of iron or steel, whether or not with their nuts and washers (excl. coach screws and other wood screws, screw hooks and screw rings, self-tapping screws, lag screws, stoppers, plugs and the like, threaded), gear boxes and parts thereof, for tractors, motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons, motor vehicles for the transport of goods and special purpose, toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately; parts of transmission shafts, ball screws, couplings and other articles of heading 8483, n.e.s..
▲ Expected to increase by 1.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity409 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity102 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
ATLANTICO UK LTD
387 import declarations19 export declarationsCR0 *Ch. 02Ch. 03Ch. 04Ch. 07Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include wine of fresh grapes, incl. fortified wines, and grape must whose fermentation has been arrested by the addition of alcohol, in containers of <= 2 l (excl. sparkling wine), beer made from malt, meat of swine, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (excl. hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in, and bellies and cuts thereof).
▲ Expected to increase by 5.9% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity387 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity19 in the last 6 months
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What Croydon trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 795 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Articles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading 3901 to 3914, n.e.s (excl. goods of 9619)Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and theTravelling-bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, shopping-bags, map-cases, tool bags, sports bags, jewellery boxes, cutlery cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar contaTricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kindsBeauty or make-up preparations and preparations for the care of the skin (other than medicaments), incl. sunscreen or suntan preparations (excl. medicaments, lip and eye make-up preparations, manicure or pedicure preparations and make-up or skin careCheese (excl. fresh cheese, incl. whey cheese, curd, processed cheese, blue-veined cheese and other cheese containing veins produced by "Penicillium roqueforti", and grated or powdered cheese)Wine of fresh grapes, incl. fortified wines, and grape must whose fermentation has been arrested by the addition of alcohol, in containers of <= 2 l (excl. sparkling wine)Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical or veterinary sciences, n.e.s.
Common questions about trade in Croydon
How many businesses import or export from Croydon?
HMRC customs records show 795 businesses in Croydon (CR0, CR2, CR5, CR7) filed declarations over the last six months — 9,793 import declarations and 3,275 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Croydon businesses import most?
The most common category is electrical machinery and electronics. Across all Croydon traders the leading goods are articles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading 3901 to 3914, n.e.s (excl. goods of 9619), bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the, travelling-bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, shopping-bags, map-cases, tool bags, sports bags, jewellery boxes, cutlery cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar conta, tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Croydon growing?
Import activity is down 2.1% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to rise by roughly 8.7%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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