UK Business Succession Index

Plastics & Rubber Products succession in South West

267 of 439 plastics & rubber products companies in South West — 60.8% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured439
Director aged 60+267
Exposure rate60.8%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
439
Companies measured
267
Director 60+
95
Director 70+
60.8%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; plastics & rubber products nationally runs at 51.5%.

MeasureCompanies
Plastics & Rubber Products companies in South West measured439
Oldest director aged 60 or over267
Oldest director aged 70 or over95

Of the 267 with a director over 60, 25 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 in other regions

Region60+Rate
North West38355.7%
West Midlands35753.1%
East Midlands24453%
South East34051.9%
Yorkshire & The Humber23550.8%
East of England24047%
London20939.1%

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 Plastics & Rubber Products succession data or everything in South West.

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