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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Pilkington Group Limited pays suppliers in 52 days on average — inside its shortest stated term

CRN 00041495 · Manufacturing · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

52daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 8 days inside the shortest term they state (60 days).

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
60–105 days
Paid outside agreed terms
24% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
18%
Reporting period
1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 28 Apr 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 8 days inside the 60-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

55 → 52 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

Pilkington Group Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 52 days against stated terms of 60–105 days; 24% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 18% took 61 days or longer. Filed 28 Apr 2026.

The direction is faster: from 55 days in H2 2023 to 52 now — 3 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 64% of the 977 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

That is 16 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers e-invoicing

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Under the company’s Standard payment term, payment is due within the first 5 days of the agreed month following the month after the invoice has been received from the supplier.

Dispute resolution

In the first instance, the suppliers are requested to refer to the telephone and email contact details on the purchase order. In the event of a dispute or difference arising between the parties, the dispute resolution process is outlined in section 20 of the NSG Group Conditions of Purchase (PCP2) available online at http://www.nsg.com/en/about-nsg/governance/esourcing-contracts-with-suppliers.

Other information

The company performs weekly payment runs and selects the invoices that are approved and due for payment before the following payment run. To determine the date that payments have been received when calculating the above payment statistics, we have added 2 working days to the date of the payment run to allow for clearing through the banking system. Approximately 88% of the overall invoices are paid on time, or are paid within 7 working days of their due date.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20265224%18%28 Apr 2026
H2 20255633%25%17 Oct 2025
H1 20255435%22%20 May 2025
H2 20244334%20%28 Oct 2024
H1 20246235%24%3 May 2024
H2 20235531%18%31 Oct 2023
H1 20236029%18%22 May 2023
H2 20225139%18%31 Oct 2022
H1 20226041%22%29 Apr 2022
H2 20213341%12%28 Oct 2021
H1 20214736%19%30 Apr 2021
H2 20207345%23%30 Oct 2020
H1 20207638%23%28 Apr 2020
H2 20194353%20%31 Oct 2019
H1 20194337%13%29 Apr 2019
H2 20184463%15%18 Oct 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
30 Jun 1894
Registered office
EUROPEAN TECHNICAL CENTRE HALL LANE, NR. ORMSKIRK, L40 5UF
2 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Quick answers · Pilkington Group Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 3 days faster over the window (55 → 52 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 52; across their last 6 reports it ranged 43–62 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 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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