Over 16,000 companies struck off registry in 17 months

Six days be­fore Pas­sion Desserts told cus­tomers that its stores and op­er­a­tions were of­fi­cial­ly closed, Pas­sion Desserts Lim­it­ed had al­ready been struck off the Com­pa­nies Reg­is­ter.

The com­pa­ny’s re­moval oc­curred on Feb­ru­ary 19, 2026, for an an­nu­al-re­turn de­fault. Its pub­lic clo­sure an­nounce­ment was dat­ed Feb­ru­ary 25.

The tim­ing does not show that the strike-off caused the busi­ness to close. But it was the clear­est ex­act-name over­lap found when Guardian Me­dia com­pared pub­licly re­port­ed clo­sures of 16,128 com­pa­nies struck off the reg­istry from May 22, 2025 to Sep­tem­ber 1, 2026. The Gazette records used for the re­view were ex­am­ined through Oc­to­ber 7, 2026.