The Marketing and Sales sector significantly outperforms the UK average in payment practices. However, the vast range between the top and bottom performers (100/100 vs 10.1/100) highlights the inconsistency across the sector, and that some companies' payment practices are truly dire. The West Midlands figure should be taken with a huge pinch of salt, as it only reflects one company.
London, with 63 companies analysed, shows an average of 70.4/100, which is a strong showing, but nowhere near the perfect scores achieved by the top 5 payers. The outlying regions need more data to paint a reliable picture: the South East is weaker than the capital at 60.0, but the West Midlands is skewed upwards at 79.8 due to the extremely small sample size of just one company.
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Despite the sector's average of 68.2/100 being well above the UK's 50.0/100, the bottom five companies, including KINESSO LIMITED at a dismal 10.1/100, drag the average down and signal the presence of serious payment issues within the Marketing and Sales sector.
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