Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Imperial Chemical Industries Limited pays suppliers in 70 days on average — 6 days past its stated terms

CRN 00218019 · Manufacturing · 3 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

70daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 6 days past the 64-day term they state.

Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers

Their stated terms: 30–64 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 12% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 57%
Reporting period: 1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 14 Aug 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 6 days past their stated terms

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–80

avg 70d

0 days80 days

reported avg 70 days their filed terms 30–64 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 12% 31–60 days 31% 61+ days 57%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #116467, period 1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026, filed 14 Aug 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Imperial Chemical Industries Limited pays 6 days past its own stated terms. 12% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 57% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2026 filing.

The pattern · last 3 of 3 reports

75 → 70 days — getting faster

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 3 of 3 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

5 days faster across the window. From 75 days in H1 2025 to 70 in the H1 2026 filing; the dashed line marks the 30-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Imperial Chemical Industries Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 70 days against stated terms of 30–64 days; 12% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 57% took 61 days or longer. Filed 14 Aug 2026.

The direction is faster: from 75 days in H1 2025 to 70 now — 5 days faster across their last 3 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 90% of the 977 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

That is 3 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2025) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

AkzoNobel Group standard payment terms are EOM 60 days+4

Dispute resolution

Any disputes on individual invoices should be raised to the AkzoNobel group vendor query team via our supplier invoice Portal. Resolution of disputes is handled on a case-by-case basis. The company seeks to resolve disputes as quickly as possible. The AkzoNobel Group does not currently have a process which records the percentage of payments not made within the payment period as a result of a dispute. As we are unable to accurately report our position, we have entered 0% whilst we work towards correcting this for future submissions

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	70	12%	57%	14 Aug 2026
H2 2025	72	14%	51%	29 Jan 2026
H1 2025	75	15%	53%	29 Jan 2026

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 7 Dec 1926
Registered office: THE AKZONOBEL BUILDING, SLOUGH, SL2 5DS

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Dec 2026

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 70-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 70-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £27,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 70-day cycle — about £15,800 more than the same account would carry at 30-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers · Imperial Chemical Industries Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 5 days faster over the window (75 → 70 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 70; across their last 3 reports it ranged 70–75 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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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.

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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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