UK Business Succession Index

Facilities Management: business succession in the UK

2,044 UK facilities management companies — 36.7% — have a director aged 60 or over.

4.2 points above the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured5,567
Director aged 60+2,044
Exposure rate36.7%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
5,567
Companies measured
2,044
With a director 60+
825
With a director 70+
36.7%
Exposure rate

Of the 2,044 with a director over 60, 126 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Facilities Management by region

RegionCompanies60+Rate
South West38920251.9%
South East84637644.4%
East of England51822543.4%
West Midlands42615335.9%
Scotland2578533.1%
North West49815430.9%
London1,69952330.8%
Yorkshire & The Humber3229629.8%

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

See UK Facility & Field Services →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Facilities Management: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-facilities/

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.