Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does The Random House Group Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 00954009 · Information & communication · 8 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2025

25days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Faster 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: 12 May 1969
Registered office: ONE EMBASSY GARDENS, LONDON, SW11 7BW

1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30–120 days. Reported average: 25.

Stated terms30–120d

-5 days

Reported avg25d

At a glance

The key figures

30–120d

their stated terms

40%

invoices paid outside terms

±7d

variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Faster than 66% of the 475 large companies reporting in information & communication.

The pattern

Holding steady

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 30d

H2 2019H1 2020H2 2020H2 2023H2 2024H1 2025

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 90% 31–60 days 3% 61+ days 7%

The read · computed from their figures

The Random House Group Limited has filed 8 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 25 days against stated terms of 30–120 days.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±7 days period to period.

In the latest period 40% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 7% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

1% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

30 days from invoice date

Dispute resolution

Dispute raised on case by case basis and resolved via email and telephone

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2025	25	40%	7%	13 Oct 2025
H2 2024	16	8%	8%	25 Sept 2025
H2 2023	17	9%	8%	7 May 2024
H2 2020	30	10%	6%	16 Mar 2021
H1 2020	30	7%	6%	12 Oct 2020
H2 2019	24	52%	7%	5 Feb 2020
H1 2019	30	48%	9%	6 Dec 2019
H1 2018	31	43%	17%	25 Jul 2018

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average is steady — within about ±7 days period to period, around 25 days.

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 25, moving within about ±7 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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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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