Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does William King Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 00498601 · Manufacturing · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2025

58days

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: 17 Aug 1951
Registered office: ATLAS CENTRE, WEST BROMWICH, B70 9DR

1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Mar 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 60–90 days. Reported average: 58.

Stated terms60–90d

-2 days

Reported avg58d

At a glance

The key figures

60–90d

their stated terms

invoices paid outside terms

-3d

faster over the window

±3d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 75% of the 992 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 60d

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

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 10% 31–60 days 44% 61+ days 46%

The read · computed from their figures

William King Limited has filed 17 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2017). Their latest report puts the average at 58 days against stated terms of 60–90 days.

The direction is faster: from 61 to 58 days over the window — about 3 days faster.

In the latest period 3% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 46% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

William King standard payment terms are end of month 60 days, variations to these terms are arranged by mutual agreement with suppliers

Dispute resolution

Payment disputes are handled by the purchase ledger team with support from the Head of Finance and ultimately the Managing Director until the issue is resolved

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2025	58	3%	46%	30 Jan 2026
H1 2025	63	66%	47%	12 Sept 2025
H2 2024	64	64%	46%	12 Sept 2025
H1 2024	63	65%	46%	12 Sept 2025
H2 2023	63	64%	45%	22 Feb 2024
H1 2023	61	64%	48%	10 Aug 2023
H2 2022	65	66%	45%	2 Feb 2023
H1 2022	68	69%	44%	28 Jul 2022
H2 2021	65	77%	45%	4 Feb 2022
H1 2021	76	67%	53%	2 Aug 2021
H2 2020	71	82%	57%	8 Feb 2021
H1 2020	63	82%	56%	27 Jul 2020
H2 2019	58	37%	44%	13 Jan 2020
H1 2019	50	29%	37%	15 Jul 2019
H2 2018	54	23%	37%	17 Jan 2019
H1 2018	56	28%	31%	8 Aug 2018
H2 2017	52	33%	30%	5 Feb 2018

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 3 days faster over the window (61 → 58 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 58, moving within about ±3 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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