UK Business Succession Index

Machinery & Industrial Equipment succession in West Midlands

146 of 251 machinery & industrial equipment companies in West Midlands — 58.2% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured251
Director aged 60+146
Exposure rate58.2%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
251
Companies measured
146
Director 60+
52
Director 70+
58.2%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; machinery & industrial equipment nationally runs at 55.8%.

MeasureCompanies
Machinery & Industrial Equipment companies in West Midlands measured251
Oldest director aged 60 or over146
Oldest director aged 70 or over52

Of the 146 with a director over 60, 34 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

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 →

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ExitRadar, "Machinery & Industrial Equipment succession in West Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/mfg-machinery/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.