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The Random House Group Limited

Registered as THE RANDOM HOUSE GROUP LIMITED. Company number 00954009. 9 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 30 June 2025, filed 13 October 2025.

25days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 1 January 2025 to 30 June 2025, The Random House Group Limited reported that it took an average of 25 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 90% of invoices within 30 days, 3% in 31 to 60 days and 7% after more than 60 days. It said 40% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 66% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 31 Jun 2018 30 Jun 2019 24 Dec 2019 30 Jun 2020 30 Dec 2020 17 Dec 2023 16 Dec 2024 25 Jun 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
Jan to Jun 2025 13 Oct 2025 25 90%3%7%40% Report
Jul to Dec 2024 25 Sep 2025 16 87%5%8%8% Report
Jul to Dec 2023 7 May 2024 17 88%5%8%9% Report
Jul to Dec 2020 16 Mar 2021 30 40%54%6%10% Report
Jan to Jun 2020 12 Oct 2020 30 89%5%6%7% Report
Jul to Dec 2019 5 Feb 2020 24 85%8%7%52% Report
Jan to Jun 2019 6 Dec 2019 30 87%3%9%48% Report
Jul to Dec 2018 22 Mar 2019 n/an/an/an/a Report
Jan to Jun 2018 25 Jul 2018 31 57%26%17%43% 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.