Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Benefit Cosmetics Limited pays suppliers in 24 days on average — 9 days past its stated terms

CRN 03922046 · Wholesale & retail trade · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

24daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 9 days past the 15-day term they state.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers

Their stated terms: 15 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 12% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 2%
Reporting period: 1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 31 Jul 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

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–40

avg 24d

0 days40 days

reported avg 24 days their filed terms 15 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 88% 31–60 days 10% 61+ days 2%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #115640, period 1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026, filed 31 Jul 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Benefit Cosmetics Limited pays 9 days past its own stated terms. 12% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 2% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2026 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

32 → 24 days — getting faster

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 17 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

8 days faster across the window. From 32 days in H2 2023 to 24 in the H1 2026 filing; the dashed line marks the 15-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Benefit Cosmetics Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 24 days against stated terms of 15 days; 12% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 2% took 61 days or longer. Filed 31 Jul 2026.

The direction is faster: from 32 days in H2 2023 to 24 now — 8 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 83% of the 815 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

That is 17 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

30 Days from receipt of invoice, unless specific due date specified in contract.

Dispute resolution

The main point of contact for invoice queries is the UK Accounts Payable Team, who process approved invoices and follow internal processes to deal with and resolve invoice queries. They can be contacted via a dedicated, shared e-mail address and in return communicate either by e-mail or phone. On the rare occasions that resolution cannot be reached with the Accounts Payable Team, unresolved invoice queries may be escalated to Finance manager on a case by case basis for resolution.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	24	12%	2%	31 Jul 2026
H2 2025	25	10%	2%	10 Mar 2026
H1 2025	25	16%	2%	4 Mar 2026
H2 2024	25	15%	3%	27 Jan 2025
H1 2024	24	14%	1%	29 Jul 2024
H2 2023	32	19%	4%	26 Jan 2024
H1 2023	27	25%	5%	17 Jul 2023
H2 2022	30	17%	3%	26 Jan 2023
H1 2022	28	20%	6%	18 Jul 2022
H2 2021	39	34%	12%	24 Jan 2022
H1 2021	47	29%	10%	13 Jul 2021
H2 2020	45	29%	12%	27 Jan 2021
H1 2020	36	24%	9%	27 Jul 2020
H2 2019	28	18%	7%	31 Jan 2020
H1 2019	32	24%	6%	25 Jul 2019
H2 2018	34	28%	10%	22 Jan 2019
H1 2018	40	41%	13%	27 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 9 Feb 2000
Registered office: MARCONI BUILDING, CHELMSFORD, CM1 1PH

2 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 24-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 24-day vs a 15-day payment cycle.

≈ £9,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 24-day cycle — about £3,500 more than the same account would carry at 15-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 · Benefit Cosmetics Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 8 days faster over the window (32 → 24 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 24; across their last 6 reports it ranged 24–32 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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