Commercial Cleaning: business succession in the UK

Name: Commercial Cleaning business succession in the UK
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6,335 UK commercial cleaning companies (20.6%) have a director aged 60 or over.

11.8 points below the all-trades average of 32.4%.

Companies measured30,679

Director aged 60+6,335

Exposure rate20.6%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

30,679

Companies measured

6,335

With a director 60+

1,536

With a director 70+

20.6%

Exposure rate

Of the 6,335 with a director over 60, 680 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.

Commercial Cleaning by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
Northern Ireland	329	84	25.5%
South West	2,272	567	25%
North East	718	168	23.4%
South East	4,697	1,046	22.3%
Wales	941	209	22.2%
North West	2,939	645	21.9%
Scotland	1,696	366	21.6%
East Midlands	1,823	389	21.3%
West Midlands	2,296	482	21%
East of England	3,512	737	21%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,994	417	20.9%
London	7,452	1,221	16.4%

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

See UK Facility & Field Services →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Commercial Cleaning: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-cleaning/

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.