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How long does Four Seasons (Bamford) Limited take to pay its suppliers?

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

CRN 05840121 · 4 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2019

42days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 31 Dec 2019 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 7 days. Reported average: 42.

Stated terms7d

+35 days

Reported avg42d

At a glance

The key figures

their stated terms

35%

invoices paid outside terms

±1d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 72% of large companies reporting.

The pattern

Holding steady

Average days to pay across their last 4 statutory reports.

terms 7d

H1 2018H2 2018H1 2019H2 2019

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 22% 31–60 days 73% 61+ days 5%

The read · computed from their figures

Four Seasons (Bamford) Limited has filed 4 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 42 days against stated terms of 7 days.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±1 days period to period.

In the latest period 35% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 5% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Supplier accounts are linked to payment profiles which determine when invoices become eligible for payment. Approximately 25% of the group's wider supplier accounts are payable at the end of the month following the invoice date (maximum), approximately 40% are payable 28 days after the invoice date, approximately 35% are payable 14 days after the invoice date, and < 1% are payable 7 days after invoice date (shortest)

Dispute resolution

Query/dispute resolution is carried out by either the individual who initiated and placed the purchase order, or a member of the central accounts payable team. This can be escalated if required

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2019	42	35%	5%	22 Jan 2020
H1 2019	42	35%	5%	6 Aug 2019
H2 2018	43	35%	6%	7 Feb 2019
H1 2018	44	37%	5%	30 Jul 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 42-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 42-day vs a 7-day payment cycle.

≈ £16,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 42-day cycle — about £13,800 more than the same account would carry at 7-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act 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

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average is steady — within about ±1 days period to period, around 42 days.

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 42, moving within about ±1 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 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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