UK Business Succession Index

Wood & Timber Products succession in North West

193 of 461 wood & timber products companies in North West (41.9%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured461
Director aged 60+193
Exposure rate41.9%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology
461
Companies measured
193
Director 60+
68
Director 70+
41.9%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; wood & timber products nationally runs at 34.9%.

MeasureCompanies
Wood & Timber Products companies in North West measured461
Oldest director aged 60 or over193
Oldest director aged 70 or over68

Of the 193 with a director over 60, 15 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.

Wood & Timber Products in other regions

Region60+Rate
East Midlands16141.5%
Yorkshire & The Humber17739.8%
South West20638.4%
Scotland13336.6%
West Midlands20436.6%
Wales9335%
East of England17531.8%
South East22829.9%

Other trades in North West

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services7,21134.2%
Lettings7,19033.4%
Retail4,76520.3%
Investment3,73225.6%
Investment / Fund Management3,51236%
Other Leisure3,44927.7%
Engineering Services2,93136%
Property Development2,39837.6%

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, "Wood & Timber Products succession in North West", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/mfg-wood/north-west/

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.