Fitness / Sports succession in South West

Name: Fitness / Sports business succession in South West
Creator: ExitRadar
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477 of 1,675 fitness / sports companies in South West — 28.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,675

Director aged 60+477

Exposure rate28.5%

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

1,675

Companies measured

477

Director 60+

219

Director 70+

28.5%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; fitness / sports nationally runs at 23.8%.

Measure	Companies
Fitness / Sports companies in South West measured	1,675
Oldest director aged 60 or over	477
Oldest director aged 70 or over	219

Of the 477 with a director over 60, 65 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Fitness / Sports in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Wales	245	28%
Yorkshire & The Humber	364	26.2%
East Midlands	268	26%
West Midlands	356	26%
South East	716	25.4%
East of England	429	24.7%
Scotland	299	24.5%
North East	145	24.4%

Other trades in South West

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	6,658	43%
Lettings	6,114	44.9%
Retail	4,239	32%
Other Leisure	3,124	36%
Agriculture	2,777	56.9%
Property Development	2,716	48.2%
Investment	2,685	37.7%
Investment / Fund Management	2,473	40%

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.

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ExitRadar, "Fitness / Sports succession in South West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-fitness/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.