UK Business Succession Index

Arts / Entertainment succession in South West

481 of 1,286 arts / entertainment companies in South West — 37.4% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,286
Director aged 60+481
Exposure rate37.4%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
1,286
Companies measured
481
Director 60+
232
Director 70+
37.4%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; arts / entertainment nationally runs at 27.7%.

MeasureCompanies
Arts / Entertainment companies in South West measured1,286
Oldest director aged 60 or over481
Oldest director aged 70 or over232

Of the 481 with a director over 60, 40 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Arts / Entertainment in other regions

Region60+Rate
Wales17135.8%
Scotland26735.2%
South East68229.9%
East Midlands17029.6%
North East10228%
Yorkshire & The Humber23028%
East of England32427.1%
West Midlands24526.8%

Other trades in South West

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services6,65843%
Lettings6,11444.9%
Retail4,23932%
Other Leisure3,12436%
Agriculture2,77756.9%
Property Development2,71648.2%
Investment2,68537.7%
Investment / Fund Management2,47340%

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

See UK Hospitality & Leisure →

See all Arts / Entertainment succession data or everything in South West.

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ExitRadar, "Arts / Entertainment succession in South West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-arts/south-west/

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.