186 businesses in Loughborough appear in HMRC customs records for the last six months. It ranks 5 of 19 trading locations in Leicestershire. Most of that activity sits in machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical machinery and electronics, optical, photographic and medical instruments. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to ease back by around 6.5% over the next three months.
Refreshed every 24 hours · last run 05/10/2026 at 06:14HMRC release in view: Aug 26Snapshot: 2026-10-04.1
2,835Import declarations▼ 12.0% on the 6 months before
1,544Export declarations
−6.5%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
186Trading businesses
Top 10 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 186 businesses.
★ Most active in LoughboroughFiled more customs declarations than any other Loughborough business over the last six months — roughly 36% of the town's total import activity, mostly in lac, gums and resins.
Most active business
FISHER SCIENTIFIC U.K. LTD
1009 import declarations776 export declarationsLE11 *Ch. 13Ch. 15Ch. 17Ch. 18Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include carboys, bottles, flasks, jars, pots, phials and other containers, of glass, of a kind used for the commercial conveyance or packing of goods, and preserving jars, of glass (excl. ampoules, glass inners for containers, with vacuum insulation, perfume, phosphides, whether or not chemically defined (excl. ferrophosphorus); inorganic compounds, incl. distilled or conductivity water and water of similar purity, n.e.s.; liquid air, whether or not rare gases have been removed; compressed air; amalgams (, organo-sulphur compounds (excl. thiocarbamates and dithiocarbamates, thiuram mono-, di- or tetrasulphides, methionine, 2-(n,n-diethylamino)ethanethiol, bis(2-hydroxyethyl)sulfide (thiodiglycol (inn)), aldicarb [iso], captafol [iso], methamidophos [is.
▼ Expected to slow by 3.9% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity1009 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity776 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
PIAB LIMITED
90 import declarations3 export declarationsLE11 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 44Ch. 73Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include parts of machinery of heading 8426, 8429 and 8430, n.e.s., articles of vulcanised rubber (excl. hard rubber), n.e.s., vacuum pumps.
▼ Expected to slow by 17.5% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity90 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity3 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
DIAM UK LTD
64 import declarations24 export declarationsLE11 *Ch. 18Ch. 34Ch. 39Ch. 44Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include furniture of plastics (excl. medical, dental, surgical or veterinary, and seats), injection or compression-type moulds for rubber or plastics, metal furniture (excl. for offices, seats and medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture).
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity64 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity24 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
KINDEVA DRUG DELIVERY LIMITED
58 import declarations23 export declarationsLE11 *Ch. 21Ch. 28Ch. 29Ch. 30Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include medicaments consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes, put up in measured doses "incl. those for transdermal administration" or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. containing antibiotics, hormones or ste, medicaments containing corticosteroid hormones, their derivatives or structural analogues but not antibiotics, put up in measured doses "incl. those for transdermal administration" or in forms or packings for retail sale, plates, sheets and strip, of aluminium alloys, of a thickness of > 0,2 mm, square or rectangular (excl. expanded plates, sheets and strip).
▲ Expected to increase by 6.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity58 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity23 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
LIGHTHOUSE (UK) LIMITED
29 import declarations39 export declarationsLE11 *Ch. 32Ch. 34Ch. 39Ch. 48Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include typewriter or similar ribbons, inked or otherwise prepared for giving impressions, whether or not on spools or in cartridges, office machines, n.e.s., parts and accessories of other office machines of heading 8472, n.e.s..
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity29 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity39 in the last 6 months
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What Loughborough trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 186 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Sugar confectionery not containing cocoa, incl. white chocolate (excl. chewing gum)Carboys, bottles, flasks, jars, pots, phials and other containers, of glass, of a kind used for the commercial conveyance or packing of goods, and preserving jars, of glass (excl. ampoules, glass inners for containers, with vacuum insulation, perfumeCentrifugal pumps, power-driven (excl. those of subheading 8413.11 and 8413.19, fuel, lubricating or cooling medium pumps for internal combustion piston engine and concrete pumps)Chocolate and other preparations containing cocoa, in containers or immediate packings of <= 2 kg (excl. in blocks, slabs or bars and cocoa powder)Articles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire)Appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like (excl. pressure-reducing valves, valves for the control of pneumatic power transmission, check "non-return" valves and safety or relief valves)Beauty 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 careMops and leather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; squeegees of rubber or other flexible materials; brooms and brushes, n.e.s.
Common questions about trade in Loughborough
How many businesses import or export from Loughborough?
HMRC customs records show 186 businesses in Loughborough (LE11) filed declarations over the last six months — 2,835 import declarations and 1,544 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Loughborough businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Loughborough traders the leading goods are sugar confectionery not containing cocoa, incl. white chocolate (excl. chewing gum), carboys, bottles, flasks, jars, pots, phials and other containers, of glass, of a kind used for the commercial conveyance or packing of goods, and preserving jars, of glass (excl. ampoules, glass inners for containers, with vacuum insulation, perfume, centrifugal pumps, power-driven (excl. those of subheading 8413.11 and 8413.19, fuel, lubricating or cooling medium pumps for internal combustion piston engine and concrete pumps), chocolate and other preparations containing cocoa, in containers or immediate packings of <= 2 kg (excl. in blocks, slabs or bars and cocoa powder). You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Loughborough growing?
Import activity is down 12.0% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 6.5%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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