Media succession in North East

Name: Media business succession in North East
Creator: ExitRadar
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289 of 1,034 media companies in North East — 27.9% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,034

Director aged 60+289

Exposure rate27.9%

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

1,034

Companies measured

289

Director 60+

Director 70+

27.9%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; media nationally runs at 28.9%.

Measure	Companies
Media companies in North East measured	1,034
Oldest director aged 60 or over	289
Oldest director aged 70 or over	92

Of the 289 with a director over 60, 16 score 50 or higher on business quality — 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	1,805	34.3%
Scotland	894	32.4%
Wales	661	32.2%
South East	3,602	31.6%
West Midlands	935	28.3%
East of England	1,574	28%
London	9,313	28%
Yorkshire & The Humber	811	26.6%

Other trades in North East

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,725	34.4%
Consultancy Services	1,553	37.6%
Retail	1,165	24.4%
Engineering Services	920	30.2%
Other Leisure	917	30.5%
Investment	915	27.3%
Investment / Fund Management	662	35.9%
Property Development	616	42.7%

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, "Media succession in North East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-media/north-east/

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.