Warehousing & Storage succession in South West

Name: Warehousing & Storage business succession in South West
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184 of 385 warehousing & storage companies in South West — 47.8% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured385

Director aged 60+184

Exposure rate47.8%

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

385

Companies measured

184

Director 60+

Director 70+

47.8%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; warehousing & storage nationally runs at 40.9%.

Measure	Companies
Warehousing & Storage companies in South West measured	385
Oldest director aged 60 or over	184
Oldest director aged 70 or over	72

Of the 184 with a director over 60, 14 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Warehousing & Storage in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
East of England	198	49.3%
South East	240	45.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber	139	42.4%
North West	184	41.8%
West Midlands	125	36.4%
London	215	35.3%
East Midlands	99	29.6%

Other trades in South West

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	6,658	43%
Lettings	6,114	44.9%
Retail	4,239	32%
Other Leisure	3,124	36%
Agriculture	2,777	56.9%
Property Development	2,716	48.2%
Investment	2,685	37.7%
Investment / Fund Management	2,473	40%

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, "Warehousing & Storage succession in South West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-warehousing/south-west/

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.