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Slug and Lettuce Company Limited

Registered as SLUG AND LETTUCE COMPANY LIMITED. Company number 06295354. 13 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 30 September 2025, filed 30 October 2025.

39days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 1 April 2025 to 30 September 2025, Slug and Lettuce Company Limited reported that it took an average of 39 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 30% of invoices within 30 days, 61% in 31 to 60 days and 9% after more than 60 days. It said 56% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 31% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 30 September 2024, the average was 41 days, so it is 2 days faster now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 47 Mar 2018 48 Sep 2018 46 Mar 2019 42 Sep 2021 43 Mar 2022 29 Sep 2022 39 Mar 2023 35 Sep 2023 37 Mar 2024 41 Sep 2024 44 Mar 2025 39 Sep 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
Apr to Sep 2025 30 Oct 2025 39 30%61%9%56% Report
Oct 2024 to Mar 2025 30 Apr 2025 44 21%67%12%54% Report
Apr to Sep 2024 31 Oct 2024 41 21%74%5%43% Report
Oct 2023 to Mar 2024 30 Apr 2024 37 30%69%1%21% Report
Apr to Sep 2023 31 Oct 2023 35 42%54%4%37% Report
Oct 2022 to Mar 2023 28 Apr 2023 39 32%56%12%25% Report
Apr to Sep 2022 31 Oct 2022 29 70%12%18%42% Report
Oct 2021 to Mar 2022 29 Apr 2022 43 26%55%19%16% Report
Apr to Sep 2021 24 Nov 2021 42 37%40%22%19% Report
Oct 2020 to Mar 2021 15 Apr 2021 n/an/an/an/a Report
Oct 2018 to Mar 2019 13 Jun 2019 46 18%60%22%12% Report
Apr to Sep 2018 31 Oct 2018 48 16%59%25%15% Report
Oct 2017 to Mar 2018 24 Apr 2018 47 17%61%22%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.