Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Hobbs Limited pays suppliers in 63 days on average — 3 days past its stated terms

CRN 01577740 · Wholesale & retail trade · 13 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Sept 2025

63daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 3 days past the 60-day term they state.

Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers

Their stated terms: 60 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 39% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 31%
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 3 days past their stated terms

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–70

avg 63d

0 days70 days

reported avg 63 days their filed terms 0–60 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 43% 31–60 days 26% 61+ days 31%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #109934, period 1 Apr 2025 – 30 Sept 2025, filed 24 Mar 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Hobbs Limited pays 3 days past its own stated terms. 39% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 31% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H2 2025 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 13 reports

66 → 63 days — getting faster

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 13 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

3 days faster across the window. From 66 days in H1 2023 to 63 in the H2 2025 filing; the dashed line marks the 60-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Hobbs Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 63 days against stated terms of 60 days; 39% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 31% took 61 days or longer. Filed 24 Mar 2026.

The direction is faster: from 66 days in H1 2023 to 63 now — 3 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 91% of the 815 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

That is 13 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

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.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2025	63	39%	31%	24 Mar 2026
H1 2025	63	48%	45%	30 Apr 2025
H2 2024	55	40%	30%	30 Oct 2024
H1 2024	50	36%	27%	2 May 2024
H2 2023	65	39%	32%	6 Dec 2023
H1 2023	66	54%	43%	20 May 2023
H2 2022	66	42%	40%	16 Dec 2022
H1 2022	53	41%	28%	25 May 2022
H1 2021	62	43%	36%	20 Oct 2021
H2 2020	93	79%	67%	30 Oct 2020
H2 2019	32	14%	6%	31 Oct 2019
H1 2019	38	29%	13%	14 May 2019
H2 2018	38	51%	19%	30 Oct 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 31 Jul 1981
Registered office: 41 LOTHBURY, LONDON, EC2R 7HF

5 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 63-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 63-day vs a 60-day payment cycle.

≈ £25,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 63-day cycle — about £1,200 more than the same account would carry at 60-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 · Hobbs Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 3 days faster over the window (66 → 63 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 63; across their last 6 reports it ranged 50–66 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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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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