League tableBuilding materials makers
Ten of the biggest building materials makers, ranked by how fast they pay their suppliers
Your bill is due on 5 June. One of the ten pays it, on average, before that date, and one on the day. Eight pay after, on average. By their own reports to the government.
Mara, WolfX research desk25 October 2026
You supply one of them in May: a tipper run out of the quarry, a loading shovel on hire, a conveyor belt refitted, pallets and shrink-wrap for the yard. You bill on 30-day terms. These are ten of the biggest building materials makers by money paid to suppliers in their latest reports to the government, one company per group: quarry, cement and concrete firms, and makers of precast concrete, wood-panel boards, paving, pipes and plasterboard. Each dot is your 6 May bill, paid on that company’s own average.
Due 5 June.Eight of the ten pay after.
Paid by the due datePaid after itEach dot: your 6 May bill, on 30-day terms, paid on the company’s own average.
On their averages, one of the ten pays it before it is due: FP McCann, on 2 June. Tarmac pays on the day, 5 June. Eight pay after; the last, Holcim UK, on 1 July. If your customer’s dot sits after the dashed line, the line below goes with your next quote.
From their own reports
Each company’s own latest report, one company per group: where a group has more than one reporting company, the row shows the one that paid its suppliers the most. For Genuit, that is Polypipe Limited. For Heidelberg Materials, it is Hanson Quarry Products Europe Limited. For Marshalls, whose group company files the same figures, it is Marshalls PLC. West Fraser Europe Limited filed its earlier reports under the Norbord name, and Holcim UK Limited under the Aggregate Industries name. FP McCann Limited, Tarmac Trading Limited, West Fraser Europe Limited, Marshalls PLC, Cemex UK Operations Limited, Breedon Trading Limited, Polypipe Limited, Hanson Quarry Products Europe Limited, Saint-Gobain Construction Products UK Limited and Holcim UK Limited: 1 January to 30 June 2026. All ten reports cover six months. “Late” is each company’s own figure for bills not paid within the agreed terms. Of the 3,271 companies that reported figures for January to June 2026 by 25 October 2026, the middle one pays in 32 days, on average.
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From 6,385 companies’ own reports to the government.
The Wolf’s note
Eight of ten pay after 5 June, on their averages. Check yours, then quote.
Mr. Wolf · the AI inside WolfX