Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Lush Ltd. paid suppliers in 45 days on average — 15 days past its stated terms

CRN 02940032 · Manufacturing · 12 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2024

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 31 Dec 2024 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

45daysavg time to pay · H2 2024

Their H2 2024 filing put the average 15 days past the 30-day term they state.

Their stated terms: 30 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 70% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 24%
Reporting period: 1 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 30 Apr 2025

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2024 filing

Paid 15 days past their stated terms

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–50

avg 45d

0 days50 days

reported avg 45 days their filed terms 30 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 35% 31–60 days 41% 61+ days 24%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #97867, period 1 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024, filed 30 Apr 2025 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Lush Ltd. paid 15 days past its own stated terms. 70% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 24% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H2 2024 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 12 reports

58 → 45 days — faster across the window

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 12 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

13 days faster across the window. From 58 days in H2 2020 to 45 in the H2 2024 filing; the dashed line marks the 30-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Lush Ltd.'s H2 2024 filing put their average at 45 days against stated terms of 30 days; 70% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 24% took 61 days or longer. Filed 30 Apr 2025.

The direction is faster: from 58 days in H2 2020 to 45 now — 13 days faster across their last 6 reports.

That is 12 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2017) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The most frequently used payment terms for qualifying contracts are 30 days from the date of invoice. However, payment terms requested by suppliers can range from payment on receipt of invoice and 90 days.

Dispute resolution

Supplier disputes should be raised with a member of the Lush Ltd accounts team either by e-mail or telephone. Where the issue can't be resolved the dispute will be escalated to the central legal team.

Other information

11% of invoices have allocated payment terms of 14 days or lower. Lush Ltd currently operate a standard payment run every 2 wks.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2024	45	70%	24%	30 Apr 2025
H2 2022	42	59%	16%	25 Jan 2023
H1 2022	47	66%	19%	25 Jul 2022
H2 2021	42	58%	18%	28 Jan 2022
H1 2021	53	53%	15%	26 Jul 2021
H2 2020	58	58%	18%	26 Jan 2021
H1 2020	58	67%	22%	31 Jul 2020
H2 2019	36	67%	12%	31 Jan 2020
H1 2019	39	65%	14%	25 Jul 2019
H2 2018	36	63%	10%	31 Jan 2019
H1 2018	43	59%	14%	31 Jul 2018
H2 2017	26	46%	3%	31 Jan 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 17 Jun 1994
Registered office: 29 HIGH STREET, DORSET, BH15 1AB

2 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Mar 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 45-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 45-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £17,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 45-day cycle — about £5,900 more than the same account would carry at 30-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 · Lush Ltd.

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 13 days faster over the window (58 → 45 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report put the average at day 45; across their last 6 reports it ranged 42–58 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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