Photography succession in London

Name: Photography business succession in London
Creator: ExitRadar
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154 of 707 photography companies in London — 21.8% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured707

Director aged 60+154

Exposure rate21.8%

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

707

Companies measured

154

Director 60+

Director 70+

21.8%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; photography nationally runs at 22%.

Measure	Companies
Photography companies in London measured	707
Oldest director aged 60 or over	154
Oldest director aged 70 or over	40

Of the 154 with a director over 60, 10 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Photography in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South East	92	22.7%
North West	62	21.2%
East of England	55	19.9%

Other trades in London

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	20,963	33.6%
Consultancy Services	19,678	28.2%
Investment	14,536	28.6%
Investment / Fund Management	10,116	33.7%
Other Leisure	10,038	26.5%
Media	9,313	28%
Retail	9,210	15.2%
IT Services / Consultancy	7,702	15.8%

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, "Photography succession in London", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prof-photography/london/

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.