Sector Analysis

Thousands of small businesses are being held back by a systemic poor payment culture that has developed in the UK over decades, causing at least 50,000 business closures each year according to the FSB.

Good Business Pays constantly watches payment culture in business with an ambition and mission to stamp out bad payment practices and poor payment culture. 

In our work, we have access to a huge amount of data to demonstrate the payment culture in the UK across all large companies that report on the payment practices. 

Each year, we publish the list of the fastest and slowest paying companies in all of the main industry sectors. Here you can easily see the payment culture demonstrated by the biggest companies in different industry sectors.

In each chart, you will see the average number of days a company takes to pay their suppliers. The results were taken in February 2024 and for each company we have also included the same statistic for February 2022 and February 2023 to provide a year-on-year snapshot.

We hope you find these useful and would welcome feedback and partnering with industry and trade bodies. We also have a huge amount of data available to offer a paid-for service to provide a full set of industry statistics as well as individual company reports and analysis based on a set of named companies. If you would like to discuss this or receive a quote for Good Business Pays data or research and analysis, please email terry@goodbusinesspays.com.