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

Name: Specialised Wholesale (Building Materials, Chemicals, Fuel, Metals) business succession in London
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620 of 1,824 specialised wholesale (building materials, chemicals, fuel, metals) companies in London — 34% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,824

Director aged 60+620

Exposure rate34%

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

1,824

Companies measured

620

Director 60+

217

Director 70+

34%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; specialised wholesale (building materials, chemicals, fuel, metals) nationally runs at 44.8%.

Measure	Companies
Specialised Wholesale (Building Materials, Chemicals, Fuel, Metals) companies in London measured	1,824
Oldest director aged 60 or over	620
Oldest director aged 70 or over	217

Of the 620 with a director over 60, 49 score 50 or higher on business quality — 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	203	55.6%
South West	309	53%
South East	501	51.9%
Wales	162	50.6%
East of England	344	48.9%
East Midlands	207	45.8%
West Midlands	435	45.2%
Yorkshire & The Humber	397	44.2%

Other trades in London

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	20,963	33.6%
Consultancy Services	19,678	28.2%
Investment	14,536	28.6%
Investment / Fund Management	10,116	33.7%
Other Leisure	10,038	26.5%
Media	9,313	28%
Retail	9,210	15.2%
IT Services / Consultancy	7,702	15.8%

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 London", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/wholesale-specialised/london/

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.