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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Express Gifts Limited pays suppliers in 32 days on average — inside its 60-day stated terms

CRN 00718151 · Wholesale & retail trade · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 26 Apr 2026

32daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 28 days inside their stated 60-day term.

Around averagevs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
60 days
Paid outside agreed terms
22% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
4%
Reporting period
27 Oct 2025 – 26 Apr 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 27 May 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 28 days inside the 60-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

45 → 32 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

Express Gifts Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 32 days against stated terms of 60 days; 22% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 4% took 61 days or longer. Filed 27 May 2026.

The direction is faster: from 45 days in H2 2023 to 32 now — 13 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 66% of the 815 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

That is 16 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

20% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The company has a range of payment terms with the majority being on 60 days. It is the company policy to pay all undisputed invoices in a timely manner, the majority are paid as close to the due date as possible. We are currently reviewing our payment processes with a view to improving the percentage of payments within the agreed payment terms.

Dispute resolution

We seek to resolve all queries as quickly as possible. Any payment disputes are dealt with by the Finance Department in the first instance. If the matter remains unresolved, it will be escalated to the relevant Head of Department to seek resolution.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20263222%4%27 May 2026
H2 20253934%13%26 Nov 2025
H1 20253634%10%27 May 2025
H2 20243731%8%29 Nov 2024
H1 20244424%14%31 May 2024
H2 20234527%13%29 Nov 2023
H1 20234534%14%30 May 2023
H2 20224536%14%23 Nov 2022
H1 20226060%38%18 May 2022
H2 20214731%13%26 Oct 2021
H1 20214935%17%23 Apr 2021
H2 20205348%24%22 Oct 2020
H1 20204890%51%24 Apr 2020
H2 20196595%56%28 Oct 2019
H1 20195995%68%29 Apr 2019
H2 20186599%75%31 Oct 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
16 Mar 1962
Registered office
EXPRESS HOUSE PETRE ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 5JB
1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Jan 2027

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Quick answers · Express Gifts Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 13 days faster over the window (45 → 32 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 32; across their last 6 reports it ranged 32–45 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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