Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does GKN Automotive Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 00034104 · Professional & technical services · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2025

57days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 29 May 1891
Registered office: 2660 KINGS COURT, BIRMINGHAM, B37 7YE

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 104 days. Reported average: 57.

Stated terms104d

-47 days

Reported avg57d

At a glance

The key figures

104d

their stated terms

invoices paid outside terms

-18d

faster over the window

±11d

variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 88% of the 530 large companies reporting in professional & technical services.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 104d

H1 2023H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 20% 31–60 days 35% 61+ days 45%

The read · computed from their figures

GKN Automotive Limited has filed 16 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 57 days against stated terms of 104 days.

The direction is faster: from 75 to 57 days over the window — about 18 days faster.

In the latest period 0% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 45% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers supply-chain finance

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The company’s standard terms and conditions of purchase (available at: www.GKNAutomotive.com/GeneralPurchasingConditions) provide that payment will be due on the first bi-weekly GKN payment run date falling ninety (90) days after the later of the date on which: (a) a validly issued invoice is received by GKN; or (b) title to the products passes to GKN and/or the services are provided in full (as applicable). However, in practice these terms only apply in the absence of agreement and the company agrees payment terms with its suppliers on a case by case basis. As referred to below in a subsequent question GKN does offer supply chain finance options in relation to qualifying contracts to certain suppliers however, we can confirm that we currently have no suppliers using supply chain finan

Dispute resolution

Due to the nature of the company’s activities, disputes with its suppliers are very infrequent. The company does not have a formal dispute resolution process. Any disputes or queries should be raised with the relevant company contact for that particular contract (which varies from contract to contract) who will attempt to resolve that dispute with the supplier informally in the first instance. There have been no formal legal disputes about payments/invoices between the company and its suppliers in the reporting period.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2025	57	0%	45%	30 Jan 2026
H1 2025	79	4%	49%	31 Oct 2025
H2 2024	79	4%	49%	10 Feb 2025
H1 2024	65	10%	40%	30 Jul 2024
H2 2023	86	14%	58%	30 Jan 2024
H1 2023	75	18%	55%	27 Jul 2023
H2 2022	73	10%	48%	18 Jan 2023
H1 2022	40	5%	31%	23 Jul 2022
H2 2021	53	6%	26%	19 Jan 2022
H1 2021	54	26%	28%	29 Jul 2021
H2 2020	78	77%	29%	27 Jan 2021
H1 2020	64	86%	27%	27 Jul 2020
H2 2019	45	73%	6%	30 Jan 2020
H1 2019	99	23%	45%	30 Jul 2019
H2 2018	57	66%	9%	29 Jan 2019
H1 2018	69	76%	29%	31 Jul 2018

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 18 days faster over the window (75 → 57 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 57, moving within about ±11 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?

UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.

What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?

The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.

How often is this data updated?

Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.

Is this official government data?

The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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