Pharmaceuticals / Biotech succession in North West

Name: Pharmaceuticals / Biotech business succession in North West
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200 of 763 pharmaceuticals / biotech companies in North West — 26.2% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured763

Director aged 60+200

Exposure rate26.2%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

763

Companies measured

200

Director 60+

Director 70+

26.2%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; pharmaceuticals / biotech nationally runs at 30.2%.

Measure	Companies
Pharmaceuticals / Biotech companies in North West measured	763
Oldest director aged 60 or over	200
Oldest director aged 70 or over	73

Of the 200 with a director over 60, 6 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Pharmaceuticals / Biotech in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South East	279	37.7%
East of England	167	36.4%
Scotland	96	33.3%
London	550	29.7%
East Midlands	80	26.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber	92	21.3%
West Midlands	116	20.6%

Other trades in North West

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	7,209	34.6%
Lettings	7,207	34.4%
Retail	4,799	20.9%
Investment	3,734	25.9%
Other Leisure	3,553	27.8%
Investment / Fund Management	3,287	36%
Engineering Services	3,003	36.5%
Property Development	2,418	38.2%

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, "Pharmaceuticals / Biotech succession in North West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/mfg-pharma/north-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.