Postal & Courier succession in Scotland

Name: Postal & Courier business succession in Scotland
Creator: ExitRadar
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52 of 317 postal & courier companies in Scotland — 16.4% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured317

Director aged 60+52

Exposure rate16.4%

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

317

Companies measured

Director 60+

Director 70+

16.4%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; postal & courier nationally runs at 14.6%.

Measure	Companies
Postal & Courier companies in Scotland measured	317
Oldest director aged 60 or over	52
Oldest director aged 70 or over	14

Of the 52 with a director over 60, 7 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Postal & Courier in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	71	20.1%
North West	121	16.8%
East of England	72	15.8%
South East	129	15.1%
London	211	14.1%
West Midlands	81	12.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber	52	11.4%
East Midlands	56	9%

Other trades in Scotland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	3,930	37.6%
Consultancy Services	3,898	40.8%
Retail	2,680	25.9%
Agriculture	2,266	51.5%
Other Leisure	2,250	32.8%
Investment	2,104	33.7%
Engineering Services	2,065	33.5%
Investment / Fund Management	1,505	40.7%

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 Logistics & Fleet 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, "Postal & Courier succession in Scotland", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-courier/scotland/

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.