Machinery & Equipment Wholesale succession in Northern Ireland

Name: Machinery & Equipment Wholesale business succession in Northern Ireland
Creator: ExitRadar
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106 of 276 machinery & equipment wholesale companies in Northern Ireland — 38.4% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured276

Director aged 60+106

Exposure rate38.4%

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

276

Companies measured

106

Director 60+

Director 70+

38.4%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; machinery & equipment wholesale nationally runs at 47.7%.

Measure	Companies
Machinery & Equipment Wholesale companies in Northern Ireland measured	276
Oldest director aged 60 or over	106
Oldest director aged 70 or over	41

Of the 106 with a director over 60, 19 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Machinery & Equipment Wholesale in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South East	356	54.7%
South West	218	52.5%
East of England	248	50.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber	216	50.3%
East Midlands	189	50.1%
West Midlands	274	48%
North West	261	47.8%
London	260	34.5%

Other trades in Northern Ireland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,262	43.8%
Retail	1,010	25.8%
Investment	939	43.6%
Consultancy Services	844	36.4%
General Construction	789	40.2%
Agriculture	758	46.2%
Other Leisure	705	36.5%
Property Development	703	46.3%

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 Machinery & Equipment Wholesale succession data or everything in Northern Ireland.

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ExitRadar, "Machinery & Equipment Wholesale succession in Northern Ireland", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/wholesale-machinery/northern-ireland/

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.