Wholesale Agent succession in North West

Name: Wholesale Agent business succession in North West
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849 of 2,455 wholesale agent companies in North West (34.6%) have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 3rd highest of 5 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured2,455

Director aged 60+849

Exposure rate34.6%

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

2,455

Companies measured

849

Director 60+

278

Director 70+

34.6%

Exposure rate

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

Measure	Companies
Wholesale Agent companies in North West measured	2,455
Oldest director aged 60 or over	849
Oldest director aged 70 or over	278

Of the 849 with a director over 60, 62 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%
East Midlands	567	39.3%
South East	1,160	38.6%
North East	154	36.7%
East of England	853	35.7%

Other trades in North West

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	7,211	34.2%
Lettings	7,190	33.4%
Retail	4,765	20.3%
Investment	3,732	25.6%
Investment / Fund Management	3,512	36%
Other Leisure	3,449	27.7%
Engineering Services	2,931	36%
Property Development	2,398	37.6%

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 North West", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/wholesale-agent/north-west/

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.