Early Years / Pre-Primary succession in East Midlands

Name: Early Years / Pre-Primary business succession in East Midlands
Creator: ExitRadar
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141 of 362 early years / pre-primary companies in East Midlands (39%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured362

Director aged 60+141

Exposure rate39%

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

362

Companies measured

141

Director 60+

Director 70+

39%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; early years / pre-primary nationally runs at 32.3%.

Measure	Companies
Early Years / Pre-Primary companies in East Midlands measured	362
Oldest director aged 60 or over	141
Oldest director aged 70 or over	56

Of the 141 with a director over 60, 25 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.

Early Years / Pre-Primary in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Scotland	123	43.9%
South West	135	37.8%
East of England	180	33.6%
South East	254	33.6%
North West	191	30.2%
West Midlands	132	29.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber	94	29.4%
London	331	27.8%

Other trades in East Midlands

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	4,554	39.2%
Lettings	4,504	35.6%
Retail	3,005	24.6%
Investment	2,192	28%
Other Leisure	2,143	31.3%
Investment / Fund Management	2,131	36.3%
Agriculture	1,927	58.6%
Engineering Services	1,733	38%

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

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ExitRadar, "Early Years / Pre-Primary succession in East Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-education-early-years/east-midlands/

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.