Fitness / Sports succession in Wales

Name: Fitness / Sports business succession in Wales
Creator: ExitRadar
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259 of 908 fitness / sports companies in Wales (28.5%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured908

Director aged 60+259

Exposure rate28.5%

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

908

Companies measured

259

Director 60+

139

Director 70+

28.5%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; fitness / sports nationally runs at 23.6%.

Measure	Companies
Fitness / Sports companies in Wales measured	908
Oldest director aged 60 or over	259
Oldest director aged 70 or over	139

Of the 259 with a director over 60, 27 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.

Fitness / Sports in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	496	28.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber	379	26.4%
South East	843	25.8%
East Midlands	330	25.6%
West Midlands	388	25%
North East	150	24.5%
Scotland	323	24.5%
North West	508	22.3%

Other trades in Wales

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	2,189	37.5%
Consultancy Services	1,911	39.6%
Retail	1,627	27.9%
Other Leisure	1,335	36.6%
Investment	1,044	31.1%
Agriculture	994	52.2%
Hotel / Accommodation	942	48.3%
Investment / Fund Management	931	38.9%

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 Wales", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-fitness/wales/

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.