Business succession index · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · East of England

Machinery manufacturing in East of England: business succession

Machinery manufacturing in East of England: of 686 active companies, 46% have a youngest owner aged 60 or over (United Kingdom: 44.7%). That ranks 5 of 10 regions for this trade.

686
Active companies
46%
Owner 60+
21.9%
All industries in East of England
44.7%
Machinery manufacturing, United Kingdom

Machinery manufacturing across United Kingdom

RegionCompaniesOwner 60+%
South East93838450.5%
West Midlands94836848.1%
East Midlands54520646.2%
Scotland30011246.1%
East of England68626446%
North West78630246%
South West58621745.2%
Yorkshire and The Humber77328744.9%
Northern Ireland2606929.4%
London44910328.7%

Methodology

Share of ACTIVE, non-dormant companies that filed accounts within three years and whose YOUNGEST person with significant control is aged 60 or over. Percentages are of companies where an owner age is on file, not of all companies. Regions are assigned from the registered-office postcode area, which is not always where a company trades; areas that cross a regional border count towards the region most of them lies in.

A trade is a group of official industry classes (NACE); a company counts under the class it registered. Only region and trade combinations with at least 250 companies are published. Source: Companies House free company data + PSC snapshot (snapshot 2026-09-01), licensed under OGL v3.0.

Aggregates only — no individual company is ever shown publicly with a succession indicator.

Machinery manufacturing in East of England, United Kingdom — business succession