Photography succession in North West

Name: Photography business succession in North West
Creator: ExitRadar
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62 of 293 photography companies in North West — 21.2% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured293

Director aged 60+62

Exposure rate21.2%

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

293

Companies measured

Director 60+

Director 70+

21.2%

Exposure rate

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

Measure	Companies
Photography companies in North West measured	293
Oldest director aged 60 or over	62
Oldest director aged 70 or over	13

Of the 62 with a director over 60, 0 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%
London	154	21.8%
East of England	55	19.9%

Other trades in North West

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	7,209	34.6%
Lettings	7,207	34.4%
Retail	4,799	20.9%
Investment	3,734	25.9%
Other Leisure	3,553	27.8%
Investment / Fund Management	3,287	36%
Engineering Services	3,003	36.5%
Property Development	2,418	38.2%

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 North West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prof-photography/north-west/

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.