Vehicle Hire / Rental: business succession in the UK

Name: Vehicle Hire / Rental business succession in the UK
Creator: ExitRadar
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1,133 UK vehicle hire / rental companies — 26.8% — have a director aged 60 or over.

5.7 points below the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured4,229

Director aged 60+1,133

Exposure rate26.8%

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

4,229

Companies measured

1,133

With a director 60+

375

With a director 70+

26.8%

Exposure rate

Of the 1,133 with a director over 60, 67 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Vehicle Hire / Rental by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
East of England	296	110	37.2%
South East	442	161	36.4%
North West	590	149	25.3%
Scotland	309	78	25.2%
West Midlands	361	88	24.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber	344	83	24.1%
London	1,139	209	18.3%

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 →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Vehicle Hire / Rental: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-vehicle-hire/

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.