UK Business Succession Index

Electronics / Electrical succession in South West

500 of 878 electronics / electrical companies in South West — 56.9% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured878
Director aged 60+500
Exposure rate56.9%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
878
Companies measured
500
Director 60+
195
Director 70+
56.9%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; electronics / electrical nationally runs at 50.9%.

MeasureCompanies
Electronics / Electrical companies in South West measured878
Oldest director aged 60 or over500
Oldest director aged 70 or over195

Of the 500 with a director over 60, 49 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Electronics / Electrical in other regions

Region60+Rate
South East1,01559.5%
Wales16956.7%
North West51455.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber36654.6%
East Midlands31654.5%
Scotland22853.9%
East of England58252.7%
West Midlands44141.4%

Other trades in South West

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services6,65843%
Lettings6,11444.9%
Retail4,23932%
Other Leisure3,12436%
Agriculture2,77756.9%
Property Development2,71648.2%
Investment2,68537.7%
Investment / Fund Management2,47340%

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 Electronics / Electrical succession data or everything in South West.

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ExitRadar, "Electronics / Electrical succession in South West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/mfg-electronics/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.