Katie Price’s horse-riding gear business, KP Equestrian Ltd, appears to have shut down this week after being removed from the register at Companies House. The shop, which sold leggings, body warmers and T-shirts for men, women and children, has stopped selling items and its website is now defunct.
The closure matters because Price did not build the business as a side project. She launched it as another way to make money and clear debt, at a time when she had owed over £3million and had already been declared bankrupt several times before. The latest filing showed the company with £1,000 in its bank account and a total worth of £15,000, a gap that leaves little room for the sort of trading costs a retail business needs to keep moving.
Price was not just a name on the label. She turned up at horse riding events to help sell some of the items, trying to give the range a personal edge that could move stock. The most recent upload to the company’s social media profile was two years ago, and the link from that account to the website no longer works, a sign that the business had been fading long before it was taken off the register.
That makes the timing sharper. Earlier this week, the company appears to have been removed from Companies House, which means the business is no longer listed as an active enterprise. In practical terms, a company cannot keep trading as a going concern once the public record has been wiped and the website has gone dark, even if the brand name still exists in memory.
The unanswered point is why the removal happened now. What is clear is that the shutdown lands in the middle of a wider financial story that has followed Price for years, and it comes as she has also said she will not be paying to get Lee Andrews out of jail in Dubai. For now, KP Equestrian Ltd looks finished, and the figures filed against it make plain how little was left when the record was erased.
