UK Business Succession Index

Non-Specialised Wholesale succession in East Midlands

319 of 844 non-specialised wholesale companies in East Midlands — 37.8% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured844
Director aged 60+319
Exposure rate37.8%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
844
Companies measured
319
Director 60+
137
Director 70+
37.8%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; non-specialised wholesale nationally runs at 31.8%.

MeasureCompanies
Non-Specialised Wholesale companies in East Midlands measured844
Oldest director aged 60 or over319
Oldest director aged 70 or over137

Of the 319 with a director over 60, 29 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Non-Specialised Wholesale in other regions

Region60+Rate
South West39147.6%
Wales13241.5%
South East66840.8%
East of England47440.5%
Northern Ireland9834.6%
Yorkshire & The Humber30832.7%
North West61431.6%
Scotland15030.9%

Other trades in East Midlands

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services3,84038.8%
Lettings3,83035.6%
Retail2,46823.9%
Investment1,86726.8%
Other Leisure1,74730.3%
Investment / Fund Management1,73736.2%
Engineering Services1,39236.8%
Property Development1,34440.5%

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.

See UK Wholesale & Distribution →

See all Non-Specialised Wholesale succession data or everything in East Midlands.

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ExitRadar, "Non-Specialised Wholesale succession in East Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/wholesale-general/east-midlands/

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.