Vehicle Repair & MOT succession in South East

Name: Vehicle Repair & MOT business succession in South East
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1,616 of 5,263 vehicle repair & MOT companies in South East (30.7%) have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 2nd highest of 9 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured5,263

Director aged 60+1,616

Exposure rate30.7%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

5,263

Companies measured

1,616

Director 60+

566

Director 70+

30.7%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; vehicle repair & MOT nationally runs at 28%.

Measure	Companies
Vehicle Repair & MOT companies in South East measured	5,263
Oldest director aged 60 or over	1,616
Oldest director aged 70 or over	566

Of the 1,616 with a director over 60, 207 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Vehicle Repair & MOT in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	1,001	31.4%
Wales	426	31.4%
Scotland	682	30%
North East	299	29.3%
North West	1,134	28.8%
East of England	1,111	28.2%
East Midlands	825	27%
Yorkshire & The Humber	790	26.8%

Other trades in South East

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	16,025	41.1%
Lettings	11,044	42%
Retail	7,147	27.8%
Investment	6,093	33.4%
IT Services / Consultancy	5,861	25.1%
Other Leisure	5,831	33.2%
Investment / Fund Management	5,134	39.8%
Property Development	4,665	46%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Automotive pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Vehicle Repair & MOT succession in South East", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/auto-repair/south-east/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as a different trade grouping, a finer geography or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses; see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.