How fast companies registered in Glasgow pay their suppliers
68 large companies and LLPs with a registered office in Glasgow have filed a payment practices report for a period ending since May 2025. The typical one takes 33 days to pay an invoice, 2 days longer than the UK figure of 31 days.
33 daysTypical average time to pay (median)
64%Typical share of invoices paid within 30 days
3Companies averaging more than 60 days
13.5%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 14 council areas in Scotland with at least five filers, Glasgow ranks eighth for the longest typical time to pay, where first is the slowest.
Every Glasgow company, slowest first
Most invoices paid late
- Iomart Managed Services Limited54%
- Tennent Caledonian Breweries Wholesale Limited53%
- Tennent Caledonian Breweries UK Limited51%
- Clyde Union Limited46%
- PD & MS Energy (Aberdeen) Limited46%
- W.G.M (Engineering)Limited43%
- Search Consultancy Limited40%
- Cairn Energy Hydrocarbons Limited37%
- Morris & Spottiswood Limited35%
- Savanta Group Limited35%
Share of invoices not paid within the terms agreed with the supplier.
Construction and retentions
22 reported construction contracts in their latest period, and 9 said those contracts hold back retention money, typically at 5%.
- HF Group Limited5%
- R.J. Mcleod (Contractors) Limited5%
- Tennent Caledonian Breweries UK Limited5%
- The Restaurant Group Limited5%
- Cbes Limited2%
- CCG (Scotland) Limitedrate not given
- Luddon Construction Limitedrate not given
- Morris & Spottiswood Limitedrate not given
- Scotrail Trains Limitedrate not given
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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.