UK Business Succession Index

Events succession in South West

118 of 395 events companies in South West — 29.9% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured395
Director aged 60+118
Exposure rate29.9%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
395
Companies measured
118
Director 60+
42
Director 70+
29.9%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; events nationally runs at 29.8%.

MeasureCompanies
Events companies in South West measured395
Oldest director aged 60 or over118
Oldest director aged 70 or over42

Of the 118 with a director over 60, 11 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Events in other regions

Region60+Rate
West Midlands11634.1%
East of England11632.2%
Yorkshire & The Humber8732.2%
South East23231.2%
London42927.7%
North West11325%

Other trades in South West

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services6,65843%
Lettings6,11444.9%
Retail4,23932%
Other Leisure3,12436%
Agriculture2,77756.9%
Property Development2,71648.2%
Investment2,68537.7%
Investment / Fund Management2,47340%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

See all Events succession data or everything in South West.

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ExitRadar, "Events succession in South West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-events/south-west/

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.