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

Name: Specialised Wholesale (Building Materials, Chemicals, Fuel, Metals) business succession in Wales
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164 of 319 specialised wholesale (building materials, chemicals, fuel, metals) companies in Wales (51.4%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured319

Director aged 60+164

Exposure rate51.4%

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

319

Companies measured

164

Director 60+

Director 70+

51.4%

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 Wales measured	319
Oldest director aged 60 or over	164
Oldest director aged 70 or over	68

Of the 164 with a director over 60, 28 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%
East of England	474	50.9%
South East	560	49.6%
East Midlands	279	46.1%
West Midlands	507	44.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber	383	43.6%
Northern Ireland	128	42.7%

Other trades in Wales

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	2,189	37.5%
Consultancy Services	1,911	39.6%
Retail	1,627	27.9%
Other Leisure	1,335	36.6%
Investment	1,044	31.1%
Agriculture	994	52.2%
Hotel / Accommodation	942	48.3%
Investment / Fund Management	931	38.9%

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 Wales", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/wholesale-specialised/wales/

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.