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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Cereform Limited pays suppliers in 40 days on average — within its stated 30–60 day terms

CRN 00346958 · Manufacturing · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Aug 2025

40daysavg time to pay · H1 2025

Their H1 2025 filing puts the average 10 days past the shortest term they state (30 days), still within their 60-day upper term.

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
30–60 days
Paid outside agreed terms
12% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
7%
Reporting period
2 Mar 2025 – 30 Aug 2025
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 29 Sept 2025

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2025 filing

Paid within their stated range — 40 against 30–60 days

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

46 → 40 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

Cereform Limited's H1 2025 filing puts their average at 40 days against stated terms of 30–60 days; 12% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 7% took 61 days or longer. Filed 29 Sept 2025.

The direction is faster: from 46 days in H1 2023 to 40 now — 6 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 62% of the 977 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

That is 16 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 payment terms are 60 days DOI. There were no changes to standard payment terms in the reporting period

Dispute resolution

If a dispute or difference arises out of these terms and conditions, without prejudice to any rights either party may have (including but not limited to the right to obtain injunctive relief and any right of the Buyer if it reasonably believes that the Seller has repudiated the Contract or is in material breach), either party may request that the parties attempt to settle it first by negotiation. If the parties have not settled such dispute within 21 days of the commencement of negotiations the parties will attempt to settle it by referring the matter to their respective general manager (or other relevant senior manager as may be agreed by the parties) who will attempt to resolve such dispute.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20254012%7%29 Sept 2025
H1 20254010%8%21 Mar 2025
H1 2024419%2%25 Sept 2024
H1 2024397%2%20 Mar 2024
H1 2023429%5%21 Sept 2023
H1 20234613%5%14 Mar 2023
H1 20224312%5%22 Sept 2022
H1 2022419%4%18 Mar 2022
H1 2021439%5%24 Sept 2021
H1 20214219%9%15 Mar 2021
H1 20204522%11%11 Sept 2020
H1 20205136%20%30 Mar 2020
H2 20195579%36%7 Oct 2019
H1 20196289%45%10 Apr 2019
H2 20185690%36%26 Sept 2018
H1 20185088%26%5 Apr 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
5 Dec 1938
Registered office
WESTON CENTRE, LONDON, W1K 4QY
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 May 2027

Open the full record at Companies House.

Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 40-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 40-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £16,000
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 40-day cycle — about £3,900 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 · Cereform Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 6 days faster over the window (46 → 40 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 40; across their last 6 reports it ranged 39–46 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
Can I see what this means for my invoices?
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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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