Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Imperial Tobacco Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 01860181 · Wholesale & retail trade · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Sept 2025

41days

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.

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 1 Nov 1984
Registered office: 121 WINTERSTOKE ROAD, BRISTOL, BS3 2LL

1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Jun 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 0 days. Reported average: 41.

Stated terms0d

+41 days

Reported avg41d

At a glance

The key figures

their stated terms

35%

invoices paid outside terms

+8d

slower over the window

±3d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 59% of the 819 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

The pattern

Getting slower

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

H1 2023H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 50% 31–60 days 26% 61+ days 24%

The read · computed from their figures

Imperial Tobacco Limited has filed 16 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 41 days against stated terms of 0 days.

The direction is slower: from 33 to 41 days over the window — about 8 days slower.

In the latest period 35% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 24% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

Payment code: CICM: Prompt Payment Code

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Our standard payment terms are 60 days from the date of the invoice.

Dispute resolution

http://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/About-us/Governance.html

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2025	41	35%	24%	3 Nov 2025
H1 2025	36	37%	19%	3 Nov 2025
H2 2024	36	28%	12%	12 Mar 2025
H1 2024	35	34%	12%	30 Apr 2024
H2 2023	34	33%	11%	31 Oct 2023
H1 2023	33	35%	11%	28 Apr 2023
H2 2022	32	23%	10%	31 Oct 2022
H1 2022	32	23%	8%	29 Apr 2022
H2 2021	30	18%	8%	3 Nov 2021
H1 2021	35	20%	10%	30 Apr 2021
H2 2020	32	25%	10%	29 Oct 2020
H1 2020	38	36%	21%	30 Apr 2020
H2 2019	39	36%	16%	29 Oct 2019
H1 2019	35	49%	16%	2 May 2019
H2 2018	50	53%	25%	31 Oct 2018
H1 2018	43	45%	22%	26 Apr 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 41-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 41-day vs a 0-day payment cycle.

≈ £16,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 41-day cycle — about £16,200 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 8 days slower over the window (33 → 41 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 41, moving within about ±3 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 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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