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Hotel Chocolat Limited

Registered as HOTEL CHOCOLAT LIMITED. Company number 02805730. 11 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 2 July 2023, filed 27 July 2023.

52days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 26 December 2022 to 2 July 2023, Hotel Chocolat Limited reported that it took an average of 52 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 27% of invoices within 30 days, 45% in 31 to 60 days and 28% after more than 60 days. It said 55% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

A year earlier, in the period to 26 June 2022, the average was 33 days, so it is 19 days slower now.

This company has not filed a report for a period ending since May 2025, so it is not in our current tables. Companies stop reporting when they no longer meet the size test, are restructured or close.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 28 Dec 2017 35 Dec 2018 37 Jun 2019 37 Dec 2019 37 Jun 2020 36 Dec 2020 38 Jun 2021 36 Dec 2021 33 Jun 2022 37 Dec 2022 52 Jul 2023

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
Dec 2022 to Jul 2023 27 Jul 2023 52 27%45%28%55% Report
Jun to Dec 2022 17 Jan 2023 37 47%40%13%39% Report
Dec 2021 to Jun 2022 22 Jul 2022 33 56%32%12%29% Report
Jun to Dec 2021 27 Jan 2022 36 47%38%15%39% Report
Dec 2020 to Jun 2021 5 Aug 2021 38 48%38%14%28% Report
Jun to Dec 2020 26 Jan 2021 36 47%40%13%30% Report
Dec 2019 to Jun 2020 22 Jul 2020 37 45%40%14%28% Report
Jul to Dec 2019 17 Jan 2020 37 47%40%13%30% Report
Dec 2018 to Jun 2019 11 Jul 2019 37 45%45%10%26% Report
Jul to Dec 2018 28 Jan 2019 35 50%40%10%26% Report
Jul to Dec 2017 11 Jan 2018 28 55%33%12%40% 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.