Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Convenience Foods Limited pays suppliers in 59 days on average — within its stated 1–120 day terms

CRN 02226886 · Manufacturing · 18 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Jul 2026

59daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 58 days past the shortest term they state (1 days), still within their 120-day upper term.

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers

Their stated terms: 1–120 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 35% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 45%
Reporting period: 1 Feb 2026 – 31 Jul 2026
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 1 Sept 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid within their stated range — 59 against 1–120 days

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–130

avg 59d

0 days130 days

reported avg 59 days their filed terms 1–120 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 24% 31–60 days 31% 61+ days 45%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #116716, period 1 Feb 2026 – 31 Jul 2026, filed 1 Sept 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Convenience Foods Limited pays within its stated range, 58 days past the shortest term. 35% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 45% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2026 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 18 reports

Holding steady around 59 days

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 18 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

Steady around 59 days. Their reported average has moved within about ±2 days period to period; the dashed line marks the 1-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Convenience Foods Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 59 days against stated terms of 1–120 days; 35% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 45% took 61 days or longer. Filed 1 Sept 2026.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±2 days period to period.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 77% of the 977 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

That is 18 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

5% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

We shall pay the price of the goods and the services on our first working day following the end of the third month following receipt of a correctly constituted VAT invoice or, if later, upon our acceptance of the goods or services in question.

Dispute resolution

Invoices are matched on receipt and disputed invoices notified to the supplier. Disputes are managed directly between the supplier and site and resolved items are then reprocessed.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	59	35%	45%	1 Sept 2026
H1 2026	62	37%	50%	9 Mar 2026
H1 2025	62	78%	52%	5 Sept 2025
H1 2025	60	75%	50%	21 Feb 2025
H1 2024	60	77%	51%	2 Sept 2024
H1 2024	59	76%	49%	27 Feb 2024
H1 2023	60	76%	50%	8 Sept 2023
H1 2023	60	77%	49%	8 Sept 2023
H1 2022	59	75%	51%	13 Sept 2022
H1 2022	57	74%	51%	3 Mar 2022
H1 2021	55	75%	48%	31 Aug 2021
H1 2021	58	76%	50%	1 Mar 2021
H1 2020	61	70%	55%	24 Sept 2020
H1 2020	56	74%	49%	27 Feb 2020
H1 2019	60	78%	53%	22 Aug 2019
H1 2019	58	83%	51%	25 Feb 2019
H1 2018	65	81%	58%	29 Aug 2018
H1 2018	67	78%	62%	27 Feb 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 3 Mar 1988
Registered office: TRINITY PARK HOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8EE

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

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 59-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 59-day vs a 1-day payment cycle.

≈ £23,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 59-day cycle — about £22,900 more than the same account would carry at 1-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 · Convenience Foods Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average is steady — within about ±2 days period to period, around 59 days.

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 59, moving within about ±2 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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