Flooring & Tiling: business succession in the UK

Name: Flooring & Tiling business succession in the UK
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2,065 UK flooring & tiling companies — 25.4% — have a director aged 60 or over.

7.1 points below the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured8,137

Director aged 60+2,065

Exposure rate25.4%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

8,137

Companies measured

2,065

With a director 60+

499

With a director 70+

25.4%

Exposure rate

Of the 2,065 with a director over 60, 164 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Flooring & Tiling by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
North West	893	271	30.3%
South West	715	206	28.8%
Yorkshire & The Humber	575	162	28.2%
West Midlands	684	184	26.9%
Scotland	431	113	26.2%
South East	1,217	313	25.7%
North East	255	64	25.1%
East of England	885	221	25%
East Midlands	502	123	24.5%
Wales	250	56	22.4%
London	1,571	315	20.1%

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 Construction & Trades pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Construction & Trades →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Flooring & Tiling: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-flooring/

Need a cut that is not published here — 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 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not 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 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.