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Hotel Chocolat Retail Ltd

Registered as HOTEL CHOCOLAT RETAIL LTD. Company number 06868820. 11 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 2 July 2023, filed 27 July 2023.

50days 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 Retail Ltd reported that it took an average of 50 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 38% of invoices within 30 days, 45% in 31 to 60 days and 17% after more than 60 days. It said 54% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

A year earlier, in the period to 26 June 2022, the average was 32 days, so it is 18 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 18 Dec 2017 23 Dec 2018 21 Jun 2019 23 Dec 2019 26 Jun 2020 33 Dec 2020 39 Jun 2021 39 Dec 2021 32 Jun 2022 33 Dec 2022 50 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 50 38%45%17%54% Report
Jun to Dec 2022 17 Jan 2023 33 75%20%5%38% Report
Dec 2021 to Jun 2022 22 Jul 2022 32 74%20%6%40% Report
Jun to Dec 2021 27 Jan 2022 39 73%17%8%43% Report
Dec 2020 to Jun 2021 5 Aug 2021 39 73%14%12%45% Report
Jun to Dec 2020 26 Jan 2021 33 64%26%10%46% Report
Dec 2019 to Jun 2020 22 Jul 2020 26 73%22%6%36% Report
Jul to Dec 2019 17 Jan 2020 23 82%16%2%28% Report
Dec 2018 to Jun 2019 11 Jul 2019 21 85%14%1%31% Report
Jul to Dec 2018 28 Jan 2019 23 79%19%3%23% Report
Jul to Dec 2017 11 Jan 2018 18 75%22%3%25% 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.