UK Business Succession Index

Machinery & Equipment Wholesale succession in Yorkshire & The Humber

216 of 429 machinery & equipment wholesale companies in Yorkshire & The Humber — 50.3% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured429
Director aged 60+216
Exposure rate50.3%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
429
Companies measured
216
Director 60+
75
Director 70+
50.3%
Exposure rate

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

MeasureCompanies
Machinery & Equipment Wholesale companies in Yorkshire & The Humber measured429
Oldest director aged 60 or over216
Oldest director aged 70 or over75

Of the 216 with a director over 60, 34 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

Region60+Rate
South East35654.7%
South West21852.5%
East of England24850.4%
East Midlands18950.1%
West Midlands27448%
North West26147.8%
Northern Ireland10638.4%
London26034.5%

Other trades in Yorkshire & The Humber

Trade60+Rate
Lettings4,68236.3%
Consultancy Services4,37437.5%
Retail3,30223%
Investment2,33529.2%
Other Leisure2,22730.5%
Investment / Fund Management2,12436.9%
Engineering Services1,73638.2%
Agriculture1,66757.7%

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 Yorkshire & The Humber.

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ExitRadar, "Machinery & Equipment Wholesale succession in Yorkshire & The Humber", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/wholesale-machinery/yorkshire-and-the-humber/

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.