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J D Wetherspoon PLC

Registered as J D WETHERSPOON PLC. Company number 01709784. 16 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 27 July 2025, filed 28 January 2026.

28days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 27 January 2025 to 27 July 2025, J D Wetherspoon PLC reported that it took an average of 28 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 67% of invoices within 30 days, 30% in 31 to 60 days and 3% after more than 60 days. It said 5% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 58% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. It is unchanged on the same period a year earlier (to 28 July 2024).

Average days to pay, report by report

30 38 Jan 2020 41 Jul 2020 45 Jan 2021 30 Jul 2021 32 Jan 2022 27 Jul 2022 28 Jan 2023 26 Jul 2023 28 Jan 2024 28 Jul 2024 27 Jan 2025 28 Jul 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 Jul 2025 28 Jan 2026 28 67%30%3%5% Report
Jul 2024 to Jan 2025 5 Mar 2025 27 68%31%1%10% Report
Jan to Jul 2024 6 Dec 2024 28 71%28%1%11% Report
Jul 2023 to Jan 2024 15 May 2024 28 68%31%1%12% Report
Jan to Jul 2023 16 Nov 2023 26 71%28%1%16% Report
Aug 2022 to Jan 2023 16 Nov 2023 28 73%26%1%19% Report
Jan to Jul 2022 21 Sep 2022 27 70%29%1%15% Report
Jul 2021 to Jan 2022 21 Sep 2022 32 61%37%2%13% Report
Jan to Jul 2021 2 Nov 2021 30 63%34%2%17% Report
Jul 2020 to Jan 2021 29 Jan 2021 45 57%23%20%41% Report
Jan to Jul 2020 29 Jan 2021 41 47%37%16%38% Report
Jul 2019 to Jan 2020 29 Jan 2021 38 49%35%16%12% Report
Jan to Jul 2019 27 Nov 2019 39 48%35%17%13% Report
Jul 2018 to Jan 2019 10 Jul 2019 38 49%35%16%12% Report
Jan to Jul 2018 26 Sep 2018 38 50%33%16%13% Report
Jul 2017 to Jan 2018 1 Mar 2018 37 51%34%15%16% 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.