Print, Signage & Graphics succession in West Midlands

Name: Print, Signage & Graphics business succession in West Midlands
Creator: ExitRadar
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197 of 424 print, signage & graphics companies in West Midlands (46.5%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured424

Director aged 60+197

Exposure rate46.5%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

424

Companies measured

197

Director 60+

Director 70+

46.5%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; print, signage & graphics nationally runs at 45.1%.

Measure	Companies
Print, Signage & Graphics companies in West Midlands measured	424
Oldest director aged 60 or over	197
Oldest director aged 70 or over	74

Of the 197 with a director over 60, 8 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is 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	250	49.5%
South East	330	48.3%
South West	168	45.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber	165	45%
East Midlands	188	44.1%
North West	188	41.5%
London	214	39.6%

Other trades in West Midlands

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	5,526	38.3%
Lettings	5,322	33.2%
Retail	3,864	20.9%
Investment	3,179	27.7%
Investment / Fund Management	2,936	38.1%
Other Leisure	2,555	30.4%
Property Development	2,177	43.3%
Engineering Services	2,000	36.8%

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, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/mfg-print/west-midlands/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as 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 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use 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 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.