Media succession in North East

Name: Media business succession in North East
Creator: ExitRadar
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280 of 1,030 media companies in North East (27.2%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,030

Director aged 60+280

Exposure rate27.2%

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

1,030

Companies measured

280

Director 60+

Director 70+

27.2%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; media nationally runs at 29%.

Measure	Companies
Media companies in North East measured	1,030
Oldest director aged 60 or over	280
Oldest director aged 70 or over	91

Of the 280 with a director over 60, 12 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.

Media in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	1,782	33.9%
Scotland	916	32.1%
South East	4,032	31.8%
Wales	637	31.2%
West Midlands	1,032	28.5%
East of England	2,064	28.2%
London	9,157	28.2%
Yorkshire & The Humber	824	26.6%

Other trades in North East

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,658	32.9%
Consultancy Services	1,466	36%
Retail	1,130	23.6%
Engineering Services	888	29.3%
Investment	884	26.6%
Other Leisure	860	29.8%
Investment / Fund Management	673	35.6%
Property Development	598	41.6%

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

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ExitRadar, "Media succession in North East", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-media/north-east/

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.