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The North British Distillery Company Limited

Registered as THE NORTH BRITISH DISTILLERY COMPANY LIMITED. Company number SC001491. 15 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 30 June 2025, filed 25 August 2025.

35days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 1 January 2025 to 30 June 2025, The North British Distillery Company Limited reported that it took an average of 35 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 44% of invoices within 30 days, 53% in 31 to 60 days and 3% after more than 60 days. It said 56% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 39% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 30 June 2024, the average was 41 days, so it is 6 days faster now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 30 Dec 2019 28 Jun 2020 29 Dec 2020 32 Jun 2021 34 Dec 2021 33 Jun 2022 32 Dec 2022 31 Jun 2023 35 Dec 2023 41 Jun 2024 38 Dec 2024 35 Jun 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
Jan to Jun 2025 25 Aug 2025 35 44%53%3%56% Report
Jul to Dec 2024 18 Feb 2025 38 33%62%5%39% Report
Jan to Jun 2024 16 Aug 2024 41 18%77%4%28% Report
Jul to Dec 2023 18 Jan 2024 35 33%66%1%14% Report
Jan to Jun 2023 10 Jul 2023 31 47%52%1%19% Report
Jul to Dec 2022 27 Jan 2023 32 40%59%1%15% Report
Jan to Jun 2022 7 Jul 2022 33 42%57%1%14% Report
Jul to Dec 2021 7 Jan 2022 34 36%63%1%12% Report
Jan to Jun 2021 7 Jul 2021 32 43%55%2%29% Report
Jul to Dec 2020 11 Jan 2021 29 51%47%2%25% Report
Jan to Jun 2020 1 Jul 2020 28 57%42%1%35% Report
Jul to Dec 2019 14 Jan 2020 30 49%51%0%20% Report
Jan to Jun 2019 3 Jul 2019 28 53%47%0%9% Report
Jul to Dec 2018 4 Jan 2019 28 56%44%0%7% Report
Jan to Jun 2018 5 Jul 2018 27 58%42%0%30% 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.