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Greencore Prepared Meals Limited

Registered as GREENCORE PREPARED MEALS LIMITED. Company number 00298325. 18 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 25 September 2026, filed 23 October 2026.

86days on average to pay

  • Within 30 days
  • 31 to 60 days
  • Over 60 days

In the reporting period from 28 March 2026 to 25 September 2026, Greencore Prepared Meals Limited reported that it took an average of 86 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 4% of invoices within 30 days, 12% in 31 to 60 days and 84% after more than 60 days. It said 5% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 1% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 26 September 2025, the average was 84 days, so it is 2 days slower now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 84 Mar 2021 87 Sep 2021 87 Mar 2022 87 Sep 2022 79 Mar 2023 92 Sep 2023 92 Mar 2024 87 Sep 2024 86 Mar 2025 84 Sep 2025 83 Mar 2026 86 Sep 2026

Bars are labelled with the month the period ended. The dashed line marks 30 days.

Every report filed

PeriodFiledAverage daysWithin 30 days31 to 60Over 60Not within termsSource
Mar to Sep 2026 23 Oct 2026 86 4%12%84%5% Report
Sep 2025 to Mar 2026 24 Apr 2026 83 3%12%85%4% Report
Mar to Sep 2025 21 Oct 2025 84 4%13%83%5% Report
Sep 2024 to Mar 2025 24 Apr 2025 86 3%10%87%4% Report
Mar to Sep 2024 25 Oct 2024 87 3%10%87%6% Report
Sep 2023 to Mar 2024 18 Apr 2024 92 3%10%87%6% Report
Apr to Sep 2023 26 Oct 2023 92 2%8%90%7% Report
Oct 2022 to Mar 2023 26 Apr 2023 79 3%11%86%8% Report
Mar to Sep 2022 26 Oct 2022 87 7%11%82%9% Report
Sep 2021 to Mar 2022 22 Apr 2022 87 6%10%84%8% Report
Mar to Sep 2021 18 Oct 2021 87 7%8%85%8% Report
Sep 2020 to Mar 2021 26 Apr 2021 84 6%11%83%5% Report
Mar to Sep 2020 23 Oct 2020 84 8%11%81%9% Report
Sep 2019 to Mar 2020 25 Apr 2020 85 8%11%81%10% Report
Mar to Sep 2019 25 Oct 2019 84 6%11%83%12% Report
Sep 2018 to Mar 2019 26 Apr 2019 88 5%9%86%12% Report
Mar to Sep 2018 27 Oct 2018 88 5%9%86%13% Report
Sep 2017 to Mar 2018 26 Apr 2018 94 4%10%86%13% Report

Source: the company's filings on Check payment practices. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as filed. We do not change them.