Joinery & Carpentry: business succession in the UK

Name: Joinery & Carpentry business succession in the UK
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4,471 UK joinery & carpentry companies — 21.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

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

Companies measured21,224

Director aged 60+4,471

Exposure rate21.1%

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

21,224

Companies measured

4,471

With a director 60+

852

With a director 70+

21.1%

Exposure rate

Of the 4,471 with a director over 60, 285 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Joinery & Carpentry by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
North West	2,586	628	24.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,956	458	23.4%
West Midlands	1,250	291	23.3%
North East	651	151	23.2%
East Midlands	1,208	277	22.9%
Wales	715	156	21.8%
South West	1,787	387	21.7%
Scotland	2,736	586	21.4%
East of England	1,818	387	21.3%
South East	2,841	570	20.1%
Northern Ireland	481	84	17.5%
London	3,188	493	15.5%

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, "Joinery & Carpentry: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-joinery/

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.