Insurance succession in West Midlands

Name: Insurance business succession in West Midlands
Creator: ExitRadar
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165 of 321 insurance companies in West Midlands (51.4%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured321

Director aged 60+165

Exposure rate51.4%

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

321

Companies measured

165

Director 60+

Director 70+

51.4%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; insurance nationally runs at 58.4%.

Measure	Companies
Insurance companies in West Midlands measured	321
Oldest director aged 60 or over	165
Oldest director aged 70 or over	64

Of the 165 with a director over 60, 18 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.

Insurance in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
London	1,502	70%
East of England	273	55.3%
South East	407	54.3%
East Midlands	164	53.6%
South West	169	52.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber	156	50.5%
North West	194	47.7%

Other trades in West Midlands

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	5,526	38.3%
Lettings	5,322	33.2%
Retail	3,864	20.9%
Investment	3,179	27.7%
Investment / Fund Management	2,936	38.1%
Other Leisure	2,555	30.4%
Property Development	2,177	43.3%
Engineering Services	2,000	36.8%

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

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ExitRadar, "Insurance succession in West Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/fin-insurance/west-midlands/

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.