Food, Beverage & Tobacco Wholesale succession in North West

Name: Food, Beverage & Tobacco Wholesale business succession in North West
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437 of 1,391 food, beverage & tobacco wholesale companies in North West (31.4%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,391

Director aged 60+437

Exposure rate31.4%

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

1,391

Companies measured

437

Director 60+

171

Director 70+

31.4%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; food, beverage & tobacco wholesale nationally runs at 31.2%.

Measure	Companies
Food, Beverage & Tobacco Wholesale companies in North West measured	1,391
Oldest director aged 60 or over	437
Oldest director aged 70 or over	171

Of the 437 with a director over 60, 43 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.

Food, Beverage & Tobacco Wholesale in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	347	42.8%
East of England	541	39.8%
Wales	133	39.7%
Northern Ireland	127	39%
Scotland	334	38.3%
South East	613	37.8%
East Midlands	238	34.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber	273	32.7%

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.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Wholesale & Distribution pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Food, Beverage & Tobacco Wholesale succession in North West", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/wholesale-food/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.