UK Business Succession Index

Bakery / Confectionery succession in West Midlands

113 of 515 bakery / confectionery companies in West Midlands — 21.9% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured515
Director aged 60+113
Exposure rate21.9%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
515
Companies measured
113
Director 60+
36
Director 70+
21.9%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; bakery / confectionery nationally runs at 26.3%.

MeasureCompanies
Bakery / Confectionery companies in West Midlands measured515
Oldest director aged 60 or over113
Oldest director aged 70 or over36

Of the 113 with a director over 60, 18 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Bakery / Confectionery in other regions

Region60+Rate
South West19237.3%
East of England15031.4%
Scotland13730.8%
North West18028.2%
South East20628.2%
Yorkshire & The Humber12826.9%
East Midlands8324.2%
London30817%

Other trades in West Midlands

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services5,02638.2%
Lettings4,85433.7%
Retail3,54420.8%
Investment2,98527.5%
Investment / Fund Management2,54237%
Other Leisure2,40330.2%
Property Development1,99643.3%
Engineering Services1,85937.3%

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

See UK Manufacturing →

See all Bakery / Confectionery succession data or everything in West Midlands.

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ExitRadar, "Bakery / Confectionery succession in West Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/mfg-bakery/west-midlands/

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.