Brewery / Drinks Manufacturing succession in East of England

Name: Brewery / Drinks Manufacturing business succession in East of England
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108 of 253 brewery / drinks manufacturing companies in East of England (42.7%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured253

Director aged 60+108

Exposure rate42.7%

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

253

Companies measured

108

Director 60+

Director 70+

42.7%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; brewery / drinks manufacturing nationally runs at 37.6%.

Measure	Companies
Brewery / Drinks Manufacturing companies in East of England measured	253
Oldest director aged 60 or over	108
Oldest director aged 70 or over	39

Of the 108 with a director over 60, 5 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.

Brewery / Drinks Manufacturing in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	144	44.2%
North West	99	37.9%
South East	139	37.1%
London	109	24.4%

Other trades in East of England

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	8,390	37.2%
Lettings	7,230	38.8%
Retail	4,241	23.4%
Investment	4,220	31.1%
Other Leisure	3,550	29.6%
Property Development	3,376	45.2%
Investment / Fund Management	3,351	37.2%
IT Services / Consultancy	3,100	23%

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.

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ExitRadar, "Brewery / Drinks Manufacturing succession in East of England", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/mfg-brewery/east-of-england/

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.