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William King Limited

Registered as WILLIAM KING LIMITED. Company number 00498601. 17 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 31 December 2025, filed 30 January 2026.

58days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025, William King Limited reported that it took an average of 58 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 10% of invoices within 30 days, 44% in 31 to 60 days and 46% after more than 60 days. It said 3% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 9% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 31 December 2024, the average was 64 days, so it is 6 days faster now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 63 Jun 2020 71 Dec 2020 76 Jun 2021 65 Dec 2021 68 Jun 2022 65 Dec 2022 61 Jun 2023 63 Dec 2023 63 Jun 2024 64 Dec 2024 63 Jun 2025 58 Dec 2025

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
Jul to Dec 2025 30 Jan 2026 58 10%44%46%3% Report
Jan to Jun 2025 12 Sep 2025 63 8%45%47%66% Report
Jul to Dec 2024 12 Sep 2025 64 9%45%46%64% Report
Jan to Jun 2024 12 Sep 2025 63 10%44%46%65% Report
Jul to Dec 2023 22 Feb 2024 63 10%45%45%64% Report
Jan to Jun 2023 10 Aug 2023 61 8%44%48%64% Report
Jul to Dec 2022 2 Feb 2023 65 12%43%45%66% Report
Jan to Jun 2022 28 Jul 2022 68 11%45%44%69% Report
Jul to Dec 2021 4 Feb 2022 65 8%47%45%77% Report
Jan to Jun 2021 2 Aug 2021 76 10%37%53%67% Report
Jul to Dec 2020 8 Feb 2021 71 8%35%57%82% Report
Jan to Jun 2020 27 Jul 2020 63 8%36%56%82% Report
Jul to Dec 2019 13 Jan 2020 58 9%47%44%37% Report
Jan to Jun 2019 15 Jul 2019 50 11%52%37%29% Report
Jul to Dec 2018 17 Jan 2019 54 11%52%37%23% Report
Jan to Jun 2018 8 Aug 2018 56 14%54%31%28% Report
Jul to Dec 2017 5 Feb 2018 52 15%55%30%33% 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.