Household Goods Wholesale: business succession in the UK

Name: Household Goods Wholesale business succession in the UK
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5,634 UK household goods wholesale companies — 29.7% — have a director aged 60 or over.

2.8 points below the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured18,952

Director aged 60+5,634

Exposure rate29.7%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

18,952

Companies measured

5,634

With a director 60+

2,175

With a director 70+

29.7%

Exposure rate

Of the 5,634 with a director over 60, 320 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Household Goods Wholesale by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
Northern Ireland	304	118	38.8%
East Midlands	992	375	37.8%
South West	877	326	37.2%
Wales	344	124	36%
South East	1,850	656	35.5%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,129	382	33.8%
East of England	1,132	370	32.7%
North East	287	92	32.1%
North West	2,519	799	31.7%
West Midlands	1,539	452	29.4%
Scotland	541	153	28.3%
London	7,433	1,784	24%

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 →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Household Goods Wholesale: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/wholesale-household/

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.