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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

French Connection UK Limited pays suppliers in 47 days on average — inside its 60-day stated terms

CRN 01222335 · Wholesale & retail trade · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jul 2026

47daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 13 days inside their stated 60-day term.

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
60 days
Paid outside agreed terms
34% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
26%
Reporting period
1 Feb 2026 – 30 Jul 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 3 Aug 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 13 days inside the 60-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

42 → 47 days — slowing down

The read · computed from their figures

French Connection UK Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 47 days against stated terms of 60 days; 34% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 26% took 61 days or longer. Filed 3 Aug 2026.

The direction is slower: from 42 days in H1 2024 to 47 now — 5 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 74% 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

Landlords, are paid to lease terms, i.e. usually monthly or quarterly in advance. Unless otherwise agreed. Business Rates are paid on immediate terms, stock suppliers are paid to 60 day terms with non-stock suppliers paid to 30 day terms.

Dispute resolution

All supplier payment terms are agreed upon initial contract negotiations. All queries for payments go through our purchase ledger department. Suppliers can email the relevant member of the team depending on the type of goods/service or alternatively call our direct reception number and request to speak to the payables team. Once correspondence is received a member of the purchase ledger team will respond within 24 hours and the dispute should be resolved as soon as possible. Any payment queries that need to be escalated will be dealt with by either the company buyer who purchased the goods/services or the Finance Transaction Manager.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20264734%26%3 Aug 2026
H1 20264139%19%2 Feb 2026
H1 20254839%25%30 Aug 2025
H1 20254937%26%6 Feb 2025
H1 20244433%19%10 Sept 2024
H1 20244230%23%10 Apr 2024
H1 20234432%25%31 Aug 2023
H1 20234735%28%31 Aug 2023
H1 20224036%11%5 Jan 2023
H1 20224247%15%5 Jan 2023
H1 20212962%14%5 Jan 2023
H1 20214367%16%23 Feb 2021
H1 20204975%29%20 Aug 2020
H1 20203557%9%12 Feb 2020
H1 20193856%11%14 Aug 2019
H1 20193553%9%25 Feb 2019
H1 20183756%14%29 Aug 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
8 Aug 1975
Registered office
SECOND FLOOR, CENTRO ONE, LONDON, NW1 0DT
6 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Mar 2027

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Quick answers · French Connection UK Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 5 days slower over the window (42 → 47 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 47; across their last 6 reports it ranged 41–49 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).

Report PL-01222335 · latest period to 30 Jul 2026

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