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How long does C-retail Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 07139142 · Wholesale & retail trade · 12 statutory reports on record · period to 28 Oct 2023

71days
their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period
Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

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Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 28 Oct 2023 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
28 Jan 2010
Registered office
UNIT 60, CHELTENHAM, GL51 9NW
9 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Jan 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 14–60 days. Reported average: 71.

Stated terms14–60d
+57 days
Reported avg71d

At a glance

The key figures

14–60d
their stated terms
88%
invoices paid outside terms
-10d
faster over the window
±18d
variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower
Slower than 96% of the 819 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 14d
81
79
79
43
74
71
H1 2021H2 2021H1 2022H2 2022H1 2023H2 2023

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 26% 31–60 days 46% 61+ days 28%

The read · computed from their figures

C-retail Limited has filed 12 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2017). Their latest report puts the average at 71 days against stated terms of 14–60 days.

The direction is faster: from 81 to 71 days over the window — about 10 days faster.

In the latest period 88% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 28% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The Superdry group of companies operate to a set of standard payment terms, which are 60 days for goods for re-sale, 30 days for non-goods for re-sale and 14 days for store rents and utilities. Variations to these terms do exist based on agreements with certain suppliers.

Dispute resolution

Payment disputes are settled by reference to the companies 'Condition of Purchase' in the first instance. Where disputes cannot be settled through this process, suppliers are asked to contact the Superdry Accounts Payable email and the appropriate accounts payable assistant will respond to the query. Superdry operates an escalation process which sees items not satisfactorily resolved in the first instance elevated to the Head of Department, Finance Operations Manager and CFO.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20237188%28%12 Dec 2024
H1 20237496%37%1 Sept 2023
H2 20224392%29%6 Dec 2022
H1 20227991%34%30 Jun 2022
H2 20217970%25%6 Jun 2022
H1 20218187%42%9 Jun 2021
H1 20205071%21%22 May 2020
H2 20193040%17%26 Nov 2019
H1 20193037%10%27 May 2019
H2 20184450%23%27 Nov 2018
H1 20185642%48%25 May 2018
H2 20174156%15%27 Nov 2017

Working-capital effect

What a 71-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 71-day vs a 14-day payment cycle.

≈ £28,000
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 71-day cycle — about £22,500 more than the same account would carry at 14-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 has moved about 10 days faster over the window (81 → 71 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 71, moving within about ±18 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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