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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Eli Lilly and Company Limited pays suppliers in 30 days on average — within its stated 10–60 day terms

CRN 00284385 · Manufacturing · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

30daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 20 days past the shortest term they state (10 days), still within their 60-day upper term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
10–60 days
Paid outside agreed terms
18% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
3%
Reporting period
1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 30 Jul 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid within their stated range — 30 against 10–60 days

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

Holding steady around 30 days

The read · computed from their figures

Eli Lilly and Company Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 30 days against stated terms of 10–60 days; 18% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 3% took 61 days or longer. Filed 30 Jul 2026.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±2 days period to period.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 85% of the 977 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

That is 17 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Standard contractual terms for goods and services is 60 days. Healthcare Professionals are paid 10 days from invoice date. Affiliate companies are paid on the 15th of the month following.

Dispute resolution

Vendors for UK can upload and view the status of their invoices and purchase orders on our online portal, Ariba. All Invoice and payment queries are first directed to our outsourced Accounts Payable Business Partner, who have 48hrs to respond. Unresolved queries are then escalated to the internal Exception Handling Team, who have a further 48hrs to respond. If an invoice is sent in without a purchase order it is returned to the vendor, to be resent with a purchase order number.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20263018%3%30 Jul 2026
H2 20253019%2%28 Jan 2026
H1 20253117%2%30 Jul 2025
H2 20242818%2%31 Jan 2025
H1 20242917%1%31 Jul 2024
H2 20233021%2%30 Jan 2024
H1 20233022%2%27 Jul 2023
H2 20222727%2%26 Jan 2023
H1 20223028%2%29 Jul 2022
H2 20212622%2%1 Feb 2022
H1 20212721%3%27 Jul 2021
H2 20202722%2%27 Jan 2021
H1 20202923%2%30 Jul 2020
H2 20192329%1%27 Jan 2020
H1 20192134%1%25 Jul 2019
H2 20182428%2%30 Jan 2019
H1 20182547%2%26 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
5 Feb 1934
Registered office
ELI LILLY AND COMPANY LIMITED, LILLY HOUSE, BASINGSTOKE, RG21 4FA
1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 30-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 30-day vs a 10-day payment cycle.

≈ £12,000
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 30-day cycle — about £7,900 more than the same account would carry at 10-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 · Eli Lilly and Company Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average is steady — within about ±2 days period to period, around 30 days.
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 30, moving within about ±2 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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