Equipment & Plant Hire succession in London

Name: Equipment & Plant Hire business succession in London
Creator: ExitRadar
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317 of 879 equipment & plant hire companies in London (36.1%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured879

Director aged 60+317

Exposure rate36.1%

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

879

Companies measured

317

Director 60+

122

Director 70+

36.1%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; equipment & plant hire nationally runs at 38.4%.

Measure	Companies
Equipment & Plant Hire companies in London measured	879
Oldest director aged 60 or over	317
Oldest director aged 70 or over	122

Of the 317 with a director over 60, 28 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.

Equipment & Plant Hire in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
North East	144	45.1%
East Midlands	241	42.4%
Scotland	237	41.9%
South West	311	41.2%
Yorkshire & The Humber	266	40.4%
Wales	158	39%
East of England	346	37.6%
West Midlands	291	37.5%

Other trades in London

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	19,703	32.8%
Consultancy Services	17,832	27.4%
Investment	13,221	28.4%
Investment / Fund Management	10,973	33%
Media	9,157	28.2%
Other Leisure	8,944	26.1%
Retail	8,509	14.5%
IT Services / Consultancy	6,912	15.2%

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.

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ExitRadar, "Equipment & Plant Hire succession in London", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-plant-hire/london/

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.