Recruitment / Staffing succession in North East

Name: Recruitment / Staffing business succession in North East
Creator: ExitRadar
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143 of 758 recruitment / staffing companies in North East — 18.9% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured758

Director aged 60+143

Exposure rate18.9%

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

758

Companies measured

143

Director 60+

Director 70+

18.9%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; recruitment / staffing nationally runs at 19.4%.

Measure	Companies
Recruitment / Staffing companies in North East measured	758
Oldest director aged 60 or over	143
Oldest director aged 70 or over	35

Of the 143 with a director over 60, 6 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Recruitment / Staffing in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Scotland	281	24.4%
Wales	186	23.6%
South East	1,240	22.3%
South West	506	22.2%
East of England	709	21.7%
East Midlands	346	20%
Northern Ireland	59	18%
London	2,285	17.9%

Other trades in North East

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,725	34.4%
Consultancy Services	1,553	37.6%
Retail	1,165	24.4%
Engineering Services	920	30.2%
Other Leisure	917	30.5%
Investment	915	27.3%
Investment / Fund Management	662	35.9%
Property Development	616	42.7%

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 Professional Services pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Recruitment / Staffing succession in North East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prof-recruitment/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.