Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Cargill Cotton Limited paid suppliers in 39 days on average — 38 days past its stated terms

CRN 05564843 · Agriculture, forestry & fishing · 3 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Nov 2018

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 30 Nov 2018 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

39daysavg time to pay · H2 2018

Their H2 2018 filing put the average 38 days past the 1-day term they state.

Their stated terms: 1 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 18% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 17%
Reporting period: 1 Jun 2018 – 30 Nov 2018
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 28 Dec 2018

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2018 filing

Paid 38 days past their stated terms

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–45

avg 39d

0 days45 days

reported avg 39 days their filed terms 1 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 75% 31–60 days 8% 61+ days 17%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #9293, period 1 Jun 2018 – 30 Nov 2018, filed 28 Dec 2018 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Cargill Cotton Limited paid 38 days past its own stated terms. 18% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 17% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H2 2018 filing.

The pattern · last 3 of 3 reports

21 → 39 days — slower across the window

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 3 of 3 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

18 days slower across the window. From 21 days in H2 2017 to 39 in the H2 2018 filing; the dashed line marks the 1-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Cargill Cotton Limited's H2 2018 filing put their average at 39 days against stated terms of 1 days; 18% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 17% took 61 days or longer. Filed 28 Dec 2018.

The direction is slower: from 21 days in H2 2017 to 39 now — 18 days slower across their last 3 reports.

That is 3 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2017) — 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

Upon receipt or Net 30 days after invoice date

Dispute resolution

We have a Supplier relationships department which are responsible to reply to the Supplier in case of invoice status query. The Department can be reached via generic email addresses and suppliers are advised to use those when they have questions in this regard. The supplier relationships team investigates the issue in cooperation with the Business units, Invoice processing department and the Procurement department and, then, they provide an answer to the supplier.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2018	39	18%	17%	28 Dec 2018
H1 2018	41	17%	12%	27 Jun 2018
H2 2017	21	25%	12%	28 Dec 2017

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 15 Sept 2005
Registered office: 7TH FLOOR, LONDON, EC4R 9AT

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 28 Feb 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 1-day payment cycle.

≈ £15,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 39-day cycle — about £15,000 more than the same account would carry at 1-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 · Cargill Cotton Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 18 days slower over the window (21 → 39 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report put the average at day 39; across their last 3 reports it ranged 21–41 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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