UK Business Succession Index

Marketing succession in North East

148 of 733 marketing companies in North East — 20.2% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured733
Director aged 60+148
Exposure rate20.2%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
733
Companies measured
148
Director 60+
41
Director 70+
20.2%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; marketing nationally runs at 20.6%.

MeasureCompanies
Marketing companies in North East measured733
Oldest director aged 60 or over148
Oldest director aged 70 or over41

Of the 148 with a director over 60, 8 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Marketing in other regions

Region60+Rate
South West68627.2%
South East1,39725.9%
Northern Ireland9223.8%
East of England73023.6%
East Midlands34322%
West Midlands51021.7%
Wales18021.1%
Yorkshire & The Humber46220.8%

Other trades in North East

Trade60+Rate
Lettings1,72534.4%
Consultancy Services1,55337.6%
Retail1,16524.4%
Engineering Services92030.2%
Other Leisure91730.5%
Investment91527.3%
Investment / Fund Management66235.9%
Property Development61642.7%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

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ExitRadar, "Marketing succession in North East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prof-marketing/north-east/

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.