Print, Signage & Graphics succession in West Midlands

Name: Print, Signage & Graphics business succession in West Midlands
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185 of 402 print, signage & graphics companies in West Midlands — 46% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured402

Director aged 60+185

Exposure rate46%

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

402

Companies measured

185

Director 60+

Director 70+

46%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; print, signage & graphics nationally runs at 44.9%.

Measure	Companies
Print, Signage & Graphics companies in West Midlands measured	402
Oldest director aged 60 or over	185
Oldest director aged 70 or over	70

Of the 185 with a director over 60, 5 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Print, Signage & Graphics in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
East of England	218	48.9%
South East	289	47.6%
South West	177	46.8%
Yorkshire & The Humber	172	43.9%
East Midlands	156	43.8%
North West	196	42.3%
London	275	41%

Other trades in West Midlands

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	5,026	38.2%
Lettings	4,854	33.7%
Retail	3,544	20.8%
Investment	2,985	27.5%
Investment / Fund Management	2,542	37%
Other Leisure	2,403	30.2%
Property Development	1,996	43.3%
Engineering Services	1,859	37.3%

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.

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ExitRadar, "Print, Signage & Graphics succession in West Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/mfg-print/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.