Other Specialist Trades succession in North East

Name: Other Specialist Trades business succession in North East
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490 of 1,835 other specialist trades companies in North East — 26.7% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,835

Director aged 60+490

Exposure rate26.7%

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

1,835

Companies measured

490

Director 60+

101

Director 70+

26.7%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; other specialist trades nationally runs at 27.5%.

Measure	Companies
Other Specialist Trades companies in North East measured	1,835
Oldest director aged 60 or over	490
Oldest director aged 70 or over	101

Of the 490 with a director over 60, 27 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Other Specialist Trades in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	1,606	33.9%
South East	2,901	32.2%
Wales	658	32.1%
Scotland	886	30.3%
East Midlands	1,014	30%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,297	29.8%
North West	1,794	29.5%
East of England	1,911	28.8%

Other trades in North East

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,725	34.4%
Consultancy Services	1,553	37.6%
Retail	1,165	24.4%
Engineering Services	920	30.2%
Other Leisure	917	30.5%
Investment	915	27.3%
Investment / Fund Management	662	35.9%
Property Development	616	42.7%

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.

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ExitRadar, "Other Specialist Trades succession in North East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-other-specialist/north-east/

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.