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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Ikea Distribution Services Limited pays suppliers in 39 days on average — 9 days past its stated terms

CRN 03568682 · Wholesale & retail trade · 18 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Aug 2026

39daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 9 days past the 30-day term they state.

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
14% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
6%
Reporting period
1 Mar 2026 – 31 Aug 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 30 Sept 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 9 days past their stated terms

The pattern · last 6 of 18 reports

Holding steady around 39 days

The read · computed from their figures

Ikea Distribution Services Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 39 days against stated terms of 30 days; 14% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 6% took 61 days or longer. Filed 30 Sept 2026.

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

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 55% of the 815 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

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

Offers e-invoicing

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Standard payment term is 30 days from receipt of invoice.

Dispute resolution

There are two options available to a supplier if they wished to raise a dispute: 1) Contact the IKEA Business Service Centre Team The IKEA supplier pack sent out to new suppliers includes a contact email address given for suppliers to use when they have any payment queries. This email address ([email protected]) is managed by the IKEA Business Service Centre team (BSC) in Bangalore, India. This IKEA Company is responsible for the administration of invoices through our electronic invoicing system, SAP VIM. They are also the first point of contact for supplier queries. Suppliers may contact the BSC with all queries, including disputes. The BSC have full visibility of the invoice status at all times and well placed to support the supplier in answering their query. This

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20263914%6%30 Sept 2026
H1 20263815%6%31 Mar 2026
H1 20253512%5%30 Sept 2025
H1 20253714%6%28 Mar 2025
H1 20243320%5%30 Sept 2024
H1 20243741%10%31 Mar 2024
H1 20232710%2%29 Sept 2023
H1 20232712%2%28 Mar 2023
H1 20223022%3%28 Sept 2022
H1 20223015%4%30 Mar 2022
H1 20213339%4%30 Sept 2021
H1 20213118%3%30 Mar 2021
H1 20202921%2%30 Sept 2020
H1 20203019%5%30 Mar 2020
H1 20192919%3%2 Dec 2019
H1 20192914%5%15 Mar 2019
H1 20182824%4%28 Sept 2018
H1 20182825%2%30 Mar 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
21 May 1998
Registered office
1 BOW CHURCHYARD, LONDON, EC4M 9DQ
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 May 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 39-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 39-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £15,500
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 39-day cycle — about £3,500 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 · Ikea Distribution Services Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average is steady — within about ±2 days period to period, around 39 days.
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 39, moving within about ±2 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
Can I see what this means for my invoices?
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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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