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First Manchester Limited

Registered as FIRST MANCHESTER LIMITED. Company number 02818607. 14 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 29 March 2025, filed 25 April 2025.

44days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 30 September 2024 to 29 March 2025, First Manchester Limited reported that it took an average of 44 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 41% of invoices within 30 days, 39% in 31 to 60 days and 20% after more than 60 days. It said 8% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

A year earlier, in the period to 30 March 2024, the average was 55 days, so it is 11 days faster 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 61 Sep 2019 55 Mar 2020 63 Sep 2020 57 Mar 2021 55 Sep 2021 56 Mar 2022 54 Sep 2022 53 Mar 2023 52 Sep 2023 55 Mar 2024 52 Sep 2024 44 Mar 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
Sep 2024 to Mar 2025 25 Apr 2025 44 41%39%20%8% Report
Mar to Sep 2024 17 Oct 2024 52 26%43%31%11% Report
Sep 2023 to Mar 2024 15 Apr 2024 55 26%50%24%6% Report
Mar to Sep 2023 12 Oct 2023 52 24%49%27%7% Report
Sep 2022 to Mar 2023 18 Apr 2023 53 26%45%29%6% Report
Mar to Sep 2022 19 Oct 2022 54 18%52%30%7% Report
Oct 2021 to Mar 2022 22 Apr 2022 56 17%55%28%5% Report
Apr to Sep 2021 27 Oct 2021 55 18%49%33%5% Report
Oct 2020 to Mar 2021 15 Apr 2021 57 21%44%35%6% Report
Apr to Sep 2020 28 Oct 2020 63 19%39%42%7% Report
Oct 2019 to Mar 2020 27 Apr 2020 55 23%39%38%10% Report
Mar to Sep 2019 28 Oct 2019 61 17%35%48%4% Report
Oct 2018 to Mar 2019 23 Apr 2019 57 19%38%43%10% Report
Apr to Sep 2018 29 Oct 2018 60 17%37%46%27% 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.