Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Game Retail Limited paid suppliers in 35 days on average — inside its 60-day stated terms

CRN 07837246 · Wholesale & retail trade · 8 statutory reports on record · period to 24 Apr 2021

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 24 Apr 2021 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

35daysavg time to pay · H1 2021

Their H1 2021 filing put the average 25 days inside their stated 60-day term.

Their stated terms: 60 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 18% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 14%
Reporting period: 25 Oct 2020 – 24 Apr 2021
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 8 Jun 2021

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2021 filing

Paid 25 days inside the 60-day term they state

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–65

avg 35d

0 days65 days

reported avg 35 days their filed terms 0–60 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 50% 31–60 days 36% 61+ days 14%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #45290, period 25 Oct 2020 – 24 Apr 2021, filed 8 Jun 2021 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Game Retail Limited paid 25 days inside its stated 60-day term. 18% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 14% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2021 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 8 reports

30 → 35 days — slower across the window

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 8 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

5 days slower across the window. From 30 days in H1 2019 to 35 in the H1 2021 filing; the dashed line marks the 60-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Game Retail Limited's H1 2021 filing put their average at 35 days against stated terms of 60 days; 18% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 14% took 61 days or longer. Filed 8 Jun 2021.

The direction is slower: from 30 days in H1 2019 to 35 now — 5 days slower across their last 6 reports.

That is 8 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

Goods for resale - 30 days Goods not for resale - 30 days Rent 1-7 days This is with the exception, that some suppliers are on extended terms (60 days)

Dispute resolution

GAME Retail Ltd values strong collaborative relationships across our supplier base, and we place high importance on ensuring queries are resolved in a timely manner. In the first instance vendors will raise a dispute with the Accounts Payable team. If the GAME/ supplier transactional teams are unable to resolve the query with the information provided it will then be escalated to the relevant Commercial contacts in both businesses for review.

Other information

Due to our inability to date track documents in to our business, we have had to use the supplier document date, as the basis for our statistics. This will go some way towards explaining the percentage of late payments. There are a large number of suppliers who are paid on a sell through basis, with payment terms of 7 days - leaving little time to turnaround queries, or issue payments when invoice submission is late. The data for this reporting period includes a number of weeks across the national lockdown where extended terms were negotiated with suppliers

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2021	35	18%	14%	8 Jun 2021
H2 2020	33	26%	10%	24 Nov 2020
H1 2020	32	34%	15%	9 Jun 2020
H1 2020	31	14%	9%	25 Feb 2020
H1 2019	27	12%	7%	27 Aug 2019
H1 2019	30	21%	9%	26 Feb 2019
H1 2018	30	20%	7%	28 Aug 2018
H1 2018	30	26%	8%	28 Feb 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: In Administration
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 7 Nov 2011
Registered office: C/O KR8 ADVISORY LIMITED THE LEXICON 10-12, MANCHESTER, M2 5NT

1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Apr 2026

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Quick answers · Game Retail Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 5 days slower over the window (30 → 35 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report put the average at day 35; across their last 6 reports it ranged 27–35 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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