Media succession in Wales

Name: Media business succession in Wales
Creator: ExitRadar
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661 of 2,052 media companies in Wales — 32.2% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 3rd highest of 10 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured2,052

Director aged 60+661

Exposure rate32.2%

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

2,052

Companies measured

661

Director 60+

255

Director 70+

32.2%

Exposure rate

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

Measure	Companies
Media companies in Wales measured	2,052
Oldest director aged 60 or over	661
Oldest director aged 70 or over	255

Of the 661 with a director over 60, 24 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%
South East	3,602	31.6%
West Midlands	935	28.3%
East of England	1,574	28%
London	9,313	28%
North East	289	27.9%
Yorkshire & The Humber	811	26.6%

Other trades in Wales

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	2,320	39.2%
Consultancy Services	2,043	40.7%
Retail	1,764	29.8%
Other Leisure	1,400	36.8%
Agriculture	1,194	54.8%
Investment	1,120	32%
Hotel / Accommodation	985	50.5%
Investment / Fund Management	961	39.8%

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, "Media succession in Wales", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-media/wales/

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.