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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Metdist Limited pays suppliers in 26 days on average — within its stated 1–30 day terms

CRN 00973341 · Wholesale & retail trade · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

26daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 25 days past the shortest term they state (1 days), still within their 30-day upper term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
1–30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
7% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
14%
Reporting period
1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 29 Apr 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid within their stated range — 26 against 1–30 days

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

4 → 26 days — slowing down

The read · computed from their figures

Metdist Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 26 days against stated terms of 1–30 days; 7% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 14% took 61 days or longer. Filed 29 Apr 2026.

The direction is slower: from 4 days in H2 2023 to 26 now — 22 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 80% of the 815 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

That is 17 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

30 DAYS FROM THE INVOICE DATE

Dispute resolution

DISPUTES ARE RESOLVED WITHIN THEIR USUAL CONTRACT TERMS

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 2026267%14%29 Apr 2026
H2 202543%3%29 Oct 2025
H1 202540%1%16 Apr 2025
H2 202440%1%31 Oct 2024
H1 202441%1%17 Apr 2024
H2 202340%1%6 Nov 2023
H1 202341%1%18 Apr 2023
H2 202241%1%18 Jan 2023
H1 202241%0%20 Jul 2022
H2 202140%0%13 Jan 2022
H1 202141%0%2 Jul 2021
H2 202041%0%25 Jan 2021
H1 202031%0%17 Jul 2020
H2 201954%0%22 Jan 2020
H1 2019100%0%9 Jul 2019
H2 2018918%0%8 Jan 2019
H1 201870%0%6 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
26 Feb 1970
Registered office
ONE, LONDON, EC4M 7WS
3 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

Open the full record at Companies House.

Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 26-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 26-day vs a 1-day payment cycle.

≈ £10,000
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 26-day cycle — about £9,900 more than the same account would carry at 1-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 · Metdist Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 22 days slower over the window (4 → 26 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 26; across their last 6 reports it ranged 4–26 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 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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