Understanding Hong Kong Company Status Codes
A company’s status is one of the fastest ways to know who you’re dealing with. Here’s what each status appearing on this site actually means.
Active
The company is currently on the Companies Registry’s live register — a legally existing entity as of the last sync.
Dissolved and Deregistered
Both mean the company no longer legally exists, though the mechanism differs. Dissolution typically follows a winding-up process. Deregistration follows the Registrar striking a defunct company off the register, usually for companies that have stopped operating and filing.
Amalgamated
The company was merged into another company under Hong Kong’s statutory amalgamation regime, and its own separate legal existence ended as a result — its business continues under the surviving company, not this one.
Historical
A terminal status distinct from the categories above in the registry’s own data — the company is no longer active, though the exact original reason isn’t always broken out separately in the source dataset.
Unknown
Not a status the Companies Registry itself publishes — it means our own enrichment pipeline hasn’t yet confirmed this company’s current status from the live register. This clears automatically once the company is checked; if you need certainty immediately, the profile page shows when it was last synced.