UK Business Succession Index

Metal Fabrication / Structures succession in South East

297 of 673 metal fabrication / structures companies in South East — 44.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured673
Director aged 60+297
Exposure rate44.1%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
673
Companies measured
297
Director 60+
106
Director 70+
44.1%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; metal fabrication / structures nationally runs at 43.7%.

MeasureCompanies
Metal Fabrication / Structures companies in South East measured673
Oldest director aged 60 or over297
Oldest director aged 70 or over106

Of the 297 with a director over 60, 43 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Metal Fabrication / Structures in other regions

Region60+Rate
South West26448.9%
East Midlands23347.6%
Yorkshire & The Humber36147.5%
Wales15447.2%
West Midlands42746.1%
Scotland20644.4%
East of England28343.6%
North West34042.3%

Other trades in South East

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services14,45541.6%
Lettings9,87342.9%
Retail6,01526.7%
IT Services / Consultancy5,39225.7%
Investment5,38533.7%
Other Leisure5,36433.2%
Investment / Fund Management4,38040.3%
Property Development4,17046.3%

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, "Metal Fabrication / Structures succession in South East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/mfg-metal-fab/south-east/

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.