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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Smithfield Foods Limited pays suppliers in 27 days on average — inside its 30-day stated terms

CRN 02874729 · Wholesale & retail trade · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

27daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 3 days inside their stated 30-day term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
13% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
0%
Reporting period
1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 8 Sept 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 3 days inside the 30-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

18 → 27 days — slowing down

The read · computed from their figures

Smithfield Foods Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 27 days against stated terms of 30 days; 13% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 0% took 61 days or longer. Filed 8 Sept 2026.

The direction is slower: from 18 days in H2 2023 to 27 now — 9 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 77% of the 815 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

That is 16 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Invoice + 30 days

Dispute resolution

Differences between Invoice and purchase order are queried internally then the supplier is contacted at the earliest opportunity with details of the query and payment is usually withheld pending resolution of the query.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20262713%0%8 Sept 2026
H2 20252214%0%16 Jan 2026
H1 20252228%0%17 Jul 2025
H2 20242613%2%24 Jan 2025
H1 20241320%1%25 Jul 2024
H2 2023182%1%25 Jan 2024
H1 2023131%1%14 Jul 2023
H1 2022196%4%25 Jul 2022
H2 20215034%12%24 Jan 2022
H1 20213850%3%27 Jul 2021
H2 20203563%6%15 Jan 2021
H1 20202635%1%30 Jul 2020
H2 20193041%2%31 Jan 2020
H1 20193141%3%30 Jul 2019
H2 2018310%3%16 Jan 2019
H1 20182846%3%19 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
24 Nov 1993
Registered office
NORFOLK TOWER, NORWICH, NR1 3PA
2 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

Open the full record at Companies House.

Quick answers · Smithfield Foods Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 9 days slower over the window (18 → 27 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 27; across their last 6 reports it ranged 13–27 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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