UK Business Succession Index

Commercial Cleaning succession in North East

168 of 718 commercial cleaning companies in North East (23.4%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured718
Director aged 60+168
Exposure rate23.4%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology
718
Companies measured
168
Director 60+
35
Director 70+
23.4%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; commercial cleaning nationally runs at 20.6%.

MeasureCompanies
Commercial Cleaning companies in North East measured718
Oldest director aged 60 or over168
Oldest director aged 70 or over35

Of the 168 with a director over 60, 26 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 in other regions

Region60+Rate
Northern Ireland8425.5%
South West56725%
South East1,04622.3%
Wales20922.2%
North West64521.9%
Scotland36621.6%
East Midlands38921.3%
West Midlands48221%

Other trades in North East

Trade60+Rate
Lettings1,65832.9%
Consultancy Services1,46636%
Retail1,13023.6%
Engineering Services88829.3%
Investment88426.6%
Other Leisure86029.8%
Investment / Fund Management67335.6%
Property Development59841.6%

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.

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See all Commercial Cleaning succession data or everything in North East.

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

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.