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How fast companies registered in Buckinghamshire pay their suppliers

64 large companies and LLPs with a registered office in Buckinghamshire have filed a payment practices report for a period ending since May 2025. The typical one takes 35.5 days to pay an invoice, 4.5 days longer than the UK figure of 31 days.

35.5 daysTypical average time to pay (median)

50%Typical share of invoices paid within 30 days

8Companies averaging more than 60 days

14.5%Typical share not paid within agreed terms

Each company's latest report, for periods ending between 30 June 2025 and 30 September 2026. Location is the registered office on the Companies House register, which is not always where a company trades or employs people. Of the 50 council areas in the South East with at least five filers, Buckinghamshire ranks 11th for the longest typical time to pay, where first is the slowest.

Every Buckinghamshire company, slowest first

#CompanyPeriod endingAverage days to payPaid within 30 daysNot paid within terms
1 Costa Limited 30 Jun 2026 989%2%
2 Bristol-Myers Squibb Business Services Limited 30 Jun 2026 9025%16%
3 Mondelez UK Limited 30 Jun 2026 878%4%
4 Esri (UK) Limited 30 Jun 2026 7829%1%
5 Xerox Limited 30 Jun 2026 7111%84%
6 Reading Scientific Services Limited 30 Jun 2025 6914%11%
7 Costa Express Limited 30 Jun 2026 6733%9%
8 Lucozade Ribena Suntory Limited 30 Jun 2026 6120%17%
9 Dreams Limited 30 Jun 2026 605%4%
10 Global Life Sciences Solutions Manufacturing UK Ltd 30 Jun 2026 5623%3%
11 GE Medical Systems Limited 30 Jun 2026 5215%28%
12 Safran Electrical & Power UK Ltd 30 Jun 2026 5233%17%
13 Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Limited 30 Jun 2026 5036%21%
14 GE Healthcare Limited 30 Jun 2026 5037%37%
15 Zebra Technologies Europe Limited 30 Jun 2026 4939%58%
16 Biffa Municipal Limited 30 Sep 2026 4858%16%
17 Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited 30 Sep 2026 4719%33%
18 Chelton Limited 30 Sep 2026 4626%43%
19 Syracuse Waste Limited 30 Sep 2026 4635%18%
20 Biffa Waste Services Limited 30 Sep 2026 4550%20%
21 Jupiter Hotels Limited 31 Dec 2025 4321%4%
22 Origin Frames Limited 30 Jun 2026 4235%29%
23 TSL Limited 30 Jun 2026 4241%17%
24 Biffa Landfill Solutions Limited 30 Sep 2026 4139%25%
25 Whistl UK Limited 30 Jun 2026 3957%27%
26 Inhealth Limited 30 Sep 2026 3845%9%
27 Motus Group (UK) Limited 30 Jun 2026 3854%57%
28 Sabre Retail Fashion Limited 30 Jun 2026 3758%50%
29 Biffa Treatment Services Limited 30 Sep 2026 3644%17%
30 Inhealth Group Holdings PLC 30 Sep 2026 3649%10%
31 Inhealth Group Limited 30 Sep 2026 3649%10%
32 Inhealth UK Holdings Limited 30 Sep 2026 3649%10%
33 Clinimed (Holdings) Limited 30 Jun 2026 3565%14%
34 Focusrite Audio Engineering Limited 31 Aug 2026 3563%16%
35 Janssen-Cilag Limited 30 Jun 2026 3450%7%
36 Sas Software Limited 30 Jun 2026 3478%25%
37 Acco UK Limited 30 Jun 2026 3364%56%
38 Xerox (UK) Limited 30 Jun 2026 3331%63%
39 Pinewood Group Limited 30 Sep 2026 3263%20%
40 Dialog Semiconductor Limited 30 Jun 2026 3138%2%
41 Jato Dynamics Limited 30 Jun 2026 3166%28%
42 Taylor Wimpey UK Limited 30 Jun 2026 3154%9%
43 8X8 UK Limited 30 Sep 2026 3051%0%
44 Blue Sky Intermodal (UK) Ltd. 30 Jun 2026 3077%85%
45 Techtronic Industries (UK) Ltd 30 Jun 2026 2970%4%
46 Servier IP UK Limited 30 Sep 2026 2892%8%
47 Cnooc Petroleum Europe Limited 30 Jun 2026 2792%9%
48 Renesas Design (UK) Limited 30 Jun 2026 2750%3%
49 Global Life Sciences Solutions Operations UK Ltd 30 Jun 2026 2670%10%
50 Renesas Electronics Operations Services Limited 30 Jun 2026 2679%4%
51 Fairfax Design and Build Limited 31 Mar 2026 2597%3%
52 Softcat PLC 31 Jul 2026 2477%6%
53 Stowe School Limited 31 Aug 2026 2384%16%
54 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Great Britain) 30 Jun 2026 2290%10%
55 Causeway Technologies Limited 30 Jun 2026 2148%15%
56 Girls' Education Company,Limited 31 Aug 2026 2082%18%
57 Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Limited 30 Sep 2026 2099%1%
58 BFBS 30 Sep 2026 1889%19%
59 Kensington Mortgage Company Limited 30 Jun 2026 1793%6%
60 Optum Health Solutions (UK) Limited 30 Jun 2026 1793%11%
61 Danfoss Limited 30 Jun 2026 1511%66%
62 Utmost Life and Pensions Limited 30 Jun 2026 1196%4%
63 Siemens Financial Services Limited 30 Sep 2026 699%12%
64 Xerox Finance Limited 30 Jun 2026 1100%0%

Most invoices paid late

  1. Blue Sky Intermodal (UK) Ltd.85%
  2. Xerox Limited84%
  3. Danfoss Limited66%
  4. Xerox (UK) Limited63%
  5. Zebra Technologies Europe Limited58%
  6. Motus Group (UK) Limited57%
  7. Acco UK Limited56%
  8. Sabre Retail Fashion Limited50%
  9. Chelton Limited43%
  10. GE Healthcare Limited37%

Share of invoices not paid within the terms agreed with the supplier.

Construction and retentions

21 reported construction contracts in their latest period, and 7 said those contracts hold back retention money, typically at 5%.

  1. TSL Limited5%
  2. Biffa Treatment Services Limitedrate not given
  3. Lucozade Ribena Suntory Limitedrate not given
  4. Pinewood Group Limitedrate not given
  5. Stowe School Limitedrate not given
  6. Taylor Wimpey UK Limitedrate not given
  7. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Great Britain)rate not given
All retention clauses

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Free to use with credit to Fair Payment and, online, a link to this page. Download the Buckinghamshire figures (CSV), see South East as a whole, or read notes for journalists.

Source: payment practices reports filed by each company under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations, published by the Department for Business and Trade on Check payment practices, Open Government Licence v3.0. Registered office from Companies House. Data as filed to 3 November 2026.