UK Business Succession Index

Freight Forwarding & Support succession in South West

248 of 655 freight forwarding & support companies in South West — 37.9% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured655
Director aged 60+248
Exposure rate37.9%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
655
Companies measured
248
Director 60+
78
Director 70+
37.9%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; freight forwarding & support nationally runs at 30%.

MeasureCompanies
Freight Forwarding & Support companies in South West measured655
Oldest director aged 60 or over248
Oldest director aged 70 or over78

Of the 248 with a director over 60, 18 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Freight Forwarding & Support in other regions

Region60+Rate
Wales10337.3%
South East61037%
Scotland13835.2%
East of England39434.4%
North West34630.2%
Yorkshire & The Humber22529.3%
London81226.4%
East Midlands17123.5%

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.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Logistics & Fleet Services pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Logistics & Fleet Services →

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ExitRadar, "Freight Forwarding & Support succession in South West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-freight-forwarding/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.