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Sterling Furniture Group Limited

Registered as STERLING FURNITURE GROUP LIMITED. Company number SC054090. 15 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 31 August 2025, filed 5 October 2026.

42days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 1 March 2025 to 31 August 2025, Sterling Furniture Group Limited reported that it took an average of 42 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 24% of invoices within 30 days, 68% in 31 to 60 days and 8% after more than 60 days. It said 8% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 26% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 31 August 2024, the average was 39 days, so it is 3 days slower now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 31 Feb 2020 47 Aug 2020 43 Feb 2021 39 Aug 2021 42 Feb 2022 42 Aug 2022 42 Feb 2023 43 Aug 2023 41 Feb 2024 39 Aug 2024 42 Feb 2025 42 Aug 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
Mar to Aug 2025 5 Oct 2026 42 24%68%8%8% Report
Sep 2024 to Feb 2025 5 Oct 2026 42 24%69%7%7% Report
Mar to Aug 2024 4 Oct 2024 39 28%66%6%6% Report
Sep 2023 to Feb 2024 5 Apr 2024 41 24%69%7%7% Report
Mar to Aug 2023 3 Oct 2023 43 24%68%8%8% Report
Sep 2022 to Feb 2023 19 May 2023 42 25%69%6%6% Report
Mar to Aug 2022 11 Oct 2022 42 23%71%6%6% Report
Sep 2021 to Feb 2022 18 Apr 2022 42 22%70%8%8% Report
Mar to Aug 2021 29 Oct 2021 39 22%73%5%5% Report
Sep 2020 to Feb 2021 2 Apr 2021 43 21%72%7%7% Report
Mar to Aug 2020 9 Oct 2020 47 22%66%12%12% Report
Sep 2019 to Feb 2020 12 May 2020 31 25%69%6%6% Report
Mar to Aug 2019 7 Nov 2019 38 24%71%5%5% Report
Sep 2018 to Feb 2019 29 Mar 2019 40 28%65%7%7% Report
Mar to Aug 2018 22 Oct 2018 37 27%67%6%6% 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.