Wholesale Agent succession in East Midlands

Name: Wholesale Agent business succession in East Midlands
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567 of 1,443 wholesale agent companies in East Midlands (39.3%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,443

Director aged 60+567

Exposure rate39.3%

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

1,443

Companies measured

567

Director 60+

184

Director 70+

39.3%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; wholesale agent nationally runs at 32.8%.

Measure	Companies
Wholesale Agent companies in East Midlands measured	1,443
Oldest director aged 60 or over	567
Oldest director aged 70 or over	184

Of the 567 with a director over 60, 26 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 in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	585	43.8%
Scotland	422	43.1%
Yorkshire & The Humber	604	42.1%
Wales	223	39.8%
South East	1,160	38.6%
North East	154	36.7%
East of England	853	35.7%
North West	849	34.6%

Other trades in East Midlands

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	4,554	39.2%
Lettings	4,504	35.6%
Retail	3,005	24.6%
Investment	2,192	28%
Other Leisure	2,143	31.3%
Investment / Fund Management	2,131	36.3%
Agriculture	1,927	58.6%
Engineering Services	1,733	38%

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, "Wholesale Agent succession in East Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/wholesale-agent/east-midlands/

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.