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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Whistles Limited pays suppliers in 79 days on average — inside its 90-day stated terms

CRN 01514754 · Wholesale & retail trade · 15 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Sept 2025

79daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 11 days inside their stated 90-day term.

Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
90 days
Paid outside agreed terms
31% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
22%
Reporting period
1 Apr 2025 – 30 Sept 2025
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 24 Mar 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2025 filing

Paid 11 days inside the 90-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 15 reports

63 → 79 days — slowing down

The read · computed from their figures

Whistles Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 79 days against stated terms of 90 days; 31% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 22% took 61 days or longer. Filed 24 Mar 2026.

The direction is slower: from 63 days in H1 2023 to 79 now — 16 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 97% of the 815 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

That is 15 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

90 days 0-60 days

Dispute resolution

The Accounts Payable department is responsible for dispute resolution. Disputes are resolved by negotiation with each individual supplier to ensure that a satisfactory outcome is reached.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20257931%22%24 Mar 2026
H1 20255238%28%30 Apr 2025
H2 20244427%23%30 Oct 2024
H1 20244825%18%2 May 2024
H2 20237030%26%6 Dec 2023
H1 20236342%36%20 May 2023
H2 20228822%69%13 Dec 2022
H1 20225430%24%25 May 2022
H2 20216137%43%25 Oct 2021
H1 20217249%55%30 Apr 2021
H2 202010294%67%30 Oct 2020
H1 20204956%18%30 Apr 2020
H2 20193525%6%30 Oct 2019
H1 20193934%17%30 Apr 2019
H2 20182321%3%30 Oct 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
28 Aug 1980
Registered office
41 LOTHBURY, LONDON, EC2R 7HF
7 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

Open the full record at Companies House.

Quick answers · Whistles Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 16 days slower over the window (63 → 79 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 79; across their last 6 reports it ranged 44–79 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).

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