Wholesale Agent: business succession in the UK

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8,131 UK wholesale agent companies (32.8%) have a director aged 60 or over.

0.4 points above the all-trades average of 32.4%.

Companies measured24,805

Director aged 60+8,131

Exposure rate32.8%

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

24,805

Companies measured

8,131

With a director 60+

2,899

With a director 70+

32.8%

Exposure rate

Of the 8,131 with a director over 60, 430 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.

Wholesale Agent by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
South West	1,335	585	43.8%
Scotland	979	422	43.1%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,435	604	42.1%
Wales	560	223	39.8%
East Midlands	1,443	567	39.3%
South East	3,004	1,160	38.6%
North East	420	154	36.7%
East of England	2,390	853	35.7%
North West	2,455	849	34.6%
Northern Ireland	693	216	31.2%
West Midlands	2,959	805	27.2%
London	7,128	1,690	23.7%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Wholesale Agent: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/wholesale-agent/

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.