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How long does French Connection UK Limited take to pay its suppliers?

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

47days
their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period
Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

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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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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 0–60 days. Reported average: 47.

Stated terms0–60d
+47 days
Reported avg47d

At a glance

The key figures

0–60d
their stated terms
34%
invoices paid outside terms
+5d
slower over the window
±4d
steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower
Slower than 73% of the 819 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

The pattern

Getting slower

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

42
44
49
48
41
47
H1 2024H1 2024H1 2025H1 2025H1 2026H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 42% 31–60 days 32% 61+ days 26%

The read · computed from their figures

French Connection UK Limited has filed 17 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 47 days against stated terms of 0–60 days.

The direction is slower: from 42 to 47 days over the window — about 5 days slower.

In the latest period 34% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 26% landed 61+ days out.

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

Working-capital effect

What a 47-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 47-day vs a 0-day payment cycle.

≈ £18,500
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 47-day cycle — about £18,500 more than the same account would carry at 0-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act 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

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 reports average around day 47, moving within about ±4 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).

Report PL-01222335 · latest period to 30 Jul 2026

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