Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Sony Europe Limited paid suppliers in 43 days on average — inside its 60-day stated terms

CRN 02422874 · 2 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Apr 2019

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 30 Apr 2019 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

43daysavg time to pay · H1 2019

Their H1 2019 filing put the average 17 days inside their stated 60-day term.

Their stated terms: 60 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 20% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 9%
Reporting period: 1 Oct 2018 – 30 Apr 2019
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 7 May 2019

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2019 filing

Paid 17 days inside the 60-day term they state

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–65

avg 43d

0 days65 days

reported avg 43 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 30% 31–60 days 61% 61+ days 9%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #15718, period 1 Oct 2018 – 30 Apr 2019, filed 7 May 2019 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Sony Europe Limited paid 17 days inside its stated 60-day term. 20% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 9% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2019 filing.

The read · computed from their figures

Sony Europe Limited's H1 2019 filing put their average at 43 days against stated terms of 60 days; 20% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 9% took 61 days or longer. Filed 7 May 2019.

That is 2 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

60 day standard payment terms

Dispute resolution

Helpdesk based query resolution with escalation to management if required

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2019	43	20%	9%	7 May 2019
H2 2018	40	17%	7%	18 Oct 2018

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What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?

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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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