While the South East performs well overall, the large gap between the top and bottom payers suggests significant inconsistency in payment practices across the region. A single Waterways Travel company skewing the sector results highlights the need for caution when interpreting sector-level data based on limited samples.
These companies achieved a perfect PaymentCheck score of 100/100, indicating consistent and timely payments:
These companies struggled with payment performance, achieving very low PaymentCheck scores:
The Financial Services sector, with an average score of 87.2 across 74 companies, shows a generally strong payment culture. The Education sector, represented by 46 companies, also performed well with an average score of 81.9. It's worth noting that the Human Resources sector had an average score of 82.4 based on data from 10 companies, suggesting reasonable but not exceptional payment practices.
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While South East companies, on average, beat the UK’s payment performance by 17.7 points, the fact that ADARE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED scored only 2.5 out of 100 demonstrates payment problems remain for some.
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