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How fast companies registered in Liverpool pay their suppliers
35 large companies and LLPs with a registered office in Liverpool have filed a payment practices report for a period ending since May 2025. The typical one takes 31 days to pay an invoice, the same as the UK figure of 31 days.
31 daysTypical average time to pay (median)
67%Typical share of invoices paid within 30 days
3Companies averaging more than 60 days
17%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 26 council areas in the North West with at least five filers, Liverpool ranks 19th for the longest typical time to pay, where first is the slowest.
Every Liverpool company, slowest first
Most invoices paid late
- Shop Direct Finance Company Limited98%
- Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited81%
- Denholm Good Logistics Limited70%
- Dole UK Limited59%
- Bristol Fruit Sales (Market) Limited58%
- Garic Limited52%
- Dole Limited50%
- Wealth at Work Limited47%
- Redbridge Produce & Flowers Limited39%
- Everton Stadium Development Limited35%
Share of invoices not paid within the terms agreed with the supplier.
Construction and retentions
11 reported construction contracts in their latest period, and 4 said those contracts hold back retention money, typically at 5%.
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine5%
- Merseyrail Electrics 2002 Limited5%
- Alternative Futures Group Limitedrate not given
- T. J. Morris 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.