Painting & Decorating succession in Wales

Name: Painting & Decorating business succession in Wales
Creator: ExitRadar
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81 of 256 painting & decorating companies in Wales — 31.6% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured256

Director aged 60+81

Exposure rate31.6%

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

256

Companies measured

Director 60+

Director 70+

31.6%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; painting & decorating nationally runs at 24.6%.

Measure	Companies
Painting & Decorating companies in Wales measured	256
Oldest director aged 60 or over	81
Oldest director aged 70 or over	24

Of the 81 with a director over 60, 14 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Painting & Decorating in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
North West	270	30.8%
West Midlands	179	30.8%
South West	221	30.7%
North East	75	29.5%
Yorkshire & The Humber	170	28.1%
Scotland	184	27.3%
South East	382	26%
East of England	233	25.5%

Other trades in Wales

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	2,320	39.2%
Consultancy Services	2,043	40.7%
Retail	1,764	29.8%
Other Leisure	1,400	36.8%
Agriculture	1,194	54.8%
Investment	1,120	32%
Hotel / Accommodation	985	50.5%
Investment / Fund Management	961	39.8%

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, "Painting & Decorating succession in Wales", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-painting/wales/

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.