UK Business Succession Index

Plastics & Rubber Products: business succession in the UK

2,672 UK plastics & rubber products companies — 51.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

19.0 points above the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured5,186
Director aged 60+2,672
Exposure rate51.5%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
5,186
Companies measured
2,672
With a director 60+
1,062
With a director 70+
51.5%
Exposure rate

Of the 2,672 with a director over 60, 226 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Plastics & Rubber Products by region

RegionCompanies60+Rate
South West43926760.8%
North West68738355.7%
West Midlands67235753.1%
East Midlands46024453%
South East65534051.9%
Yorkshire & The Humber46323550.8%
East of England51124047%
London53520939.1%

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 →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Plastics & Rubber Products: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/mfg-plastics/

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.