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How fast companies registered in Stoke-on-Trent pay their suppliers
30 large companies and LLPs with a registered office in Stoke-on-Trent have filed a payment practices report for a period ending since May 2025. The typical one takes 37.5 days to pay an invoice, 6.5 days longer than the UK figure of 31 days.
37.5 daysTypical average time to pay (median)
43.5%Typical share of invoices paid within 30 days
1Companies averaging more than 60 days
36.5%Typical share not paid within agreed terms
Each company's latest report, for periods ending between 30 June 2025 and 29 October 2026. Location is the registered office on the Companies House register, which is not always where a company trades or employs people. Of the 24 council areas in the West Midlands with at least five filers, Stoke-on-Trent ranks 14th for the longest typical time to pay, where first is the slowest.
Every Stoke-on-Trent company, slowest first
Most invoices paid late
- Lookers MB Limited85%
- Drayton Group Limited81%
- S.Jennings Limited71%
- The Dutton-Forshaw Motor Company Limited69%
- Lookers Limited60%
- Lookers Colborne Limited59%
- Autoneum Great Britain Limited58%
- Lookers Motor Group Limited58%
- Colebrook & Burgess Limited57%
- Hillside (New Media Holdings) Limited52%
Share of invoices not paid within the terms agreed with the supplier.
Construction and retentions
4 reported construction contracts in their latest period, and 2 said those contracts hold back retention money, typically at 5%.
- Novus Property Solutions Limited5%
- ST Bart's Multi Academy Trustrate 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.