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How fast companies registered in Reading pay their suppliers
65 large companies and LLPs with a registered office in Reading 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)
63%Typical share of invoices paid within 30 days
10Companies 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 50 council areas in the South East with at least five filers, Reading ranks 23rd for the longest typical time to pay, where first is the slowest.
Every Reading company, slowest first
Most invoices paid late
- Icon Clinical Research (U.K.) Limited85%
- Iqvia Ies UK Limited64%
- Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP57%
- Capula Investment Management LLP50%
- Iqvia Ltd.40%
- Brevan Howard Asset Management Services Limited39%
- Kenvue EMEA Services Limited38%
- Iqvia Biotech Ltd.37%
- SSE Energy Markets Limited33%
- Eastern Green Link 2 Limited31%
Share of invoices not paid within the terms agreed with the supplier.
Construction and retentions
19 reported construction contracts in their latest period, and 12 said those contracts hold back retention money, typically at 5%.
- Davidson Kempner European Partners, LLP10%
- Southern Electric Power Distribution PLC5%
- SSE Generation Limited5%
- SSE Hornsea Limited5%
- SSE Services PLC5%
- SSE Thermal Energy Operations Limited5%
- Telefonica UK Limited5%
- Thales UK Limited5%
- Thames Water Utilities Limitedrate not given
- Walkers Snack Foods Limitedrate not given
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Free to use with credit to Fair Payment and, online, a link to this page. Download the Reading 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.