Events succession in West Midlands

Name: Events business succession in West Midlands
Creator: ExitRadar
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116 of 340 events companies in West Midlands — 34.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured340

Director aged 60+116

Exposure rate34.1%

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

340

Companies measured

116

Director 60+

Director 70+

34.1%

Exposure rate

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

Measure	Companies
Events companies in West Midlands measured	340
Oldest director aged 60 or over	116
Oldest director aged 70 or over	34

Of the 116 with a director over 60, 8 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

Region	60+	Rate
East of England	116	32.2%
Yorkshire & The Humber	87	32.2%
South East	232	31.2%
South West	118	29.9%
London	429	27.7%
North West	113	25%

Other trades in West Midlands

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	5,026	38.2%
Lettings	4,854	33.7%
Retail	3,544	20.8%
Investment	2,985	27.5%
Investment / Fund Management	2,542	37%
Other Leisure	2,403	30.2%
Property Development	1,996	43.3%
Engineering Services	1,859	37.3%

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

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

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.