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Ocado Operating Limited

Registered as OCADO OPERATING LIMITED. Company number 09047186. 16 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 30 November 2025, filed 10 December 2025.

30days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 2 June 2025 to 30 November 2025, Ocado Operating Limited reported that it took an average of 30 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 80% of invoices within 30 days, 16% in 31 to 60 days and 4% after more than 60 days. It said 9% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 52% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 1 December 2024, the average was 29 days, so it is 1 day slower now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 26 May 2020 25 Nov 2020 20 May 2021 19 Nov 2021 21 May 2022 28 Nov 2022 30 May 2023 30 Dec 2023 28 Jun 2024 29 Dec 2024 28 Nov 2025 30 Nov 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
Jun to Nov 2025 10 Dec 2025 30 80%16%4%9% Report
Dec 2024 to Nov 2025 18 Jun 2025 28 79%19%2%10% Report
Jun to Dec 2024 13 Dec 2024 29 68%29%3%11% Report
Dec 2023 to Jun 2024 21 Jun 2024 28 71%26%3%7% Report
May to Dec 2023 20 Dec 2023 30 57%39%4%8% Report
Nov 2022 to May 2023 23 Jun 2023 30 63%31%6%11% Report
May to Nov 2022 16 Dec 2022 28 94%3%3%6% Report
Nov 2021 to May 2022 19 Jun 2022 21 91%5%4%8% Report
May to Nov 2021 23 Dec 2021 19 95%3%2%6% Report
Nov 2020 to May 2021 30 Jun 2021 20 96%2%2%4% Report
Jun to Nov 2020 23 Dec 2020 25 93%3%4%7% Report
Dec 2019 to May 2020 26 Jun 2020 26 93%3%4%7% Report
Jun to Dec 2019 19 Dec 2019 23 81%15%4%20% Report
Dec 2018 to Jun 2019 1 Jul 2019 34 81%16%3%43% Report
Jun to Dec 2018 3 Jan 2019 26 77%19%4%56% Report
Dec 2017 to Jun 2018 3 Jul 2018 27 87%10%3%38% 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.