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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Princes Limited paid suppliers in 54 days on average — inside its 60-day stated terms

CRN 02328824 · Wholesale & retail trade · 12 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2024

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 31 Mar 2024 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.
54daysavg time to pay · H1 2024

Their H1 2024 filing put the average 6 days inside their stated 60-day term.

Their stated terms
60 days
Paid outside agreed terms
23% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
26%
Reporting period
1 Oct 2023 – 31 Mar 2024
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 22 May 2024

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2024 filing

Paid 6 days inside the 60-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 12 reports

50 → 54 days — slower across the window

The read · computed from their figures

Princes Limited's H1 2024 filing put their average at 54 days against stated terms of 60 days; 23% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 26% took 61 days or longer. Filed 22 May 2024.

The direction is slower: from 50 days in H2 2021 to 54 now — 4 days slower across their last 6 reports.

That is 12 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers e-invoicing

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Price shall be payable by Princes to the Seller before expiry of 60 days from the date of delivery.

Dispute resolution

Our standard conditions of purchase require that before resorting to legal proceedings the parties shall attempt to amicably resolve any dispute arising out of or relating to the contract through negotiations.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20245423%26%22 May 2024
H2 20235220%24%1 Nov 2023
H1 2023528%29%26 May 2023
H2 2022517%26%1 Nov 2022
H1 2022497%25%29 Apr 2022
H2 2021508%26%29 Oct 2021
H1 2021486%24%26 Apr 2021
H2 2020508%26%30 Oct 2020
H1 20205012%26%30 Apr 2020
H2 20195320%29%28 Oct 2019
H1 20195318%29%2 May 2019
H2 20184912%24%30 Oct 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Public Limited Company
Incorporated
15 Dec 1988
Registered office
ROYAL LIVER BUILDING, LIVERPOOL, L3 1NX
2 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Jun 2027

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Quick answers · Princes Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 4 days slower over the window (50 → 54 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report put the average at day 54; across their last 6 reports it ranged 49–54 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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