Events succession in West Midlands

Name: Events business succession in West Midlands
Creator: ExitRadar
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131 of 374 events companies in West Midlands (35%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured374

Director aged 60+131

Exposure rate35%

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

374

Companies measured

131

Director 60+

Director 70+

35%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; events nationally runs at 29.6%.

Measure	Companies
Events companies in West Midlands measured	374
Oldest director aged 60 or over	131
Oldest director aged 70 or over	38

Of the 131 with a director over 60, 11 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.

Events in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
East Midlands	89	34%
Yorkshire & The Humber	87	33%
South East	266	32.1%
South West	121	30.1%
East of England	126	28.4%
London	396	26.9%
North West	110	24%

Other trades in West Midlands

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	5,526	38.3%
Lettings	5,322	33.2%
Retail	3,864	20.9%
Investment	3,179	27.7%
Investment / Fund Management	2,936	38.1%
Other Leisure	2,555	30.4%
Property Development	2,177	43.3%
Engineering Services	2,000	36.8%

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, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-events/west-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.