Beauty / Salon / Spa: business succession in the UK

Name: Beauty / Salon / Spa business succession in the UK
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5,139 UK beauty / salon / spa companies — 13.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

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

Companies measured39,191

Director aged 60+5,139

Exposure rate13.1%

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

39,191

Companies measured

5,139

With a director 60+

1,266

With a director 70+

13.1%

Exposure rate

Of the 5,139 with a director over 60, 217 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Beauty / Salon / Spa by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
South West	2,522	421	16.7%
South East	4,848	753	15.5%
East Midlands	2,084	308	14.8%
East of England	3,010	416	13.8%
North East	1,204	166	13.8%
Wales	1,266	170	13.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber	2,818	371	13.2%
Scotland	2,390	312	13.1%
West Midlands	3,062	398	13%
North West	4,574	569	12.4%
Northern Ireland	517	60	11.6%
London	10,879	1,194	11%

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 →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Beauty / Salon / Spa: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-beauty/

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.