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William King Limited pays suppliers in 58 days on average — inside its shortest stated term

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

58daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 2 days inside the shortest term they state (60 days).

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
60–90 days
Paid outside agreed terms
3% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
46%
Reporting period
1 Jul 2025 – 31 Dec 2025
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 30 Jan 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2025 filing

Paid 2 days inside the 60-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

61 → 58 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

William King Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 58 days against stated terms of 60–90 days; 3% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 46% took 61 days or longer. Filed 30 Jan 2026.

The direction is faster: from 61 days in H1 2023 to 58 now — 3 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 75% of the 977 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

That is 17 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2017) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

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.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 2025583%46%30 Jan 2026
H1 20256366%47%12 Sept 2025
H2 20246464%46%12 Sept 2025
H1 20246365%46%12 Sept 2025
H2 20236364%45%22 Feb 2024
H1 20236164%48%10 Aug 2023
H2 20226566%45%2 Feb 2023
H1 20226869%44%28 Jul 2022
H2 20216577%45%4 Feb 2022
H1 20217667%53%2 Aug 2021
H2 20207182%57%8 Feb 2021
H1 20206382%56%27 Jul 2020
H2 20195837%44%13 Jan 2020
H1 20195029%37%15 Jul 2019
H2 20185423%37%17 Jan 2019
H1 20185628%31%8 Aug 2018
H2 20175233%30%5 Feb 2018

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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Quick answers · William King Limited

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 filed report puts the average at day 58; across their last 6 reports it ranged 58–64 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
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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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