Specialised Wholesale (Building Materials, Chemicals, Fuel, Metals) succession in East Midlands

Name: Specialised Wholesale (Building Materials, Chemicals, Fuel, Metals) business succession in East Midlands
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279 of 605 specialised wholesale (building materials, chemicals, fuel, metals) companies in East Midlands (46.1%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured605

Director aged 60+279

Exposure rate46.1%

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

605

Companies measured

279

Director 60+

116

Director 70+

46.1%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; specialised wholesale (building materials, chemicals, fuel, metals) nationally runs at 44.6%.

Measure	Companies
Specialised Wholesale (Building Materials, Chemicals, Fuel, Metals) companies in East Midlands measured	605
Oldest director aged 60 or over	279
Oldest director aged 70 or over	116

Of the 279 with a director over 60, 37 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.

Specialised Wholesale (Building Materials, Chemicals, Fuel, Metals) in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Scotland	207	55.1%
South West	325	52.7%
Wales	164	51.4%
East of England	474	50.9%
South East	560	49.6%
West Midlands	507	44.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber	383	43.6%
Northern Ireland	128	42.7%

Other trades in East Midlands

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	4,554	39.2%
Lettings	4,504	35.6%
Retail	3,005	24.6%
Investment	2,192	28%
Other Leisure	2,143	31.3%
Investment / Fund Management	2,131	36.3%
Agriculture	1,927	58.6%
Engineering Services	1,733	38%

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, "Specialised Wholesale (Building Materials, Chemicals, Fuel, Metals) succession in East Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/wholesale-specialised/east-midlands/

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.