Is Slappie Ltd Still in Business? (2026 Update)
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Look for Slappie Ltd on AmazonFull story →David Kendall pitched Slappie, a coiled band watch you slap onto your wrist, back in series 13.
The brand is still selling today, just no longer run by the man who first pitched it.
A Big Slice Given Away Early
Kendall asked for £50,000 for nearly half his company, 45 percent, a heavy equity trade that pointed to a founder needing serious capital to grow a novelty watch beyond its early online following.
Nick Jenkins agreed to the full amount. Interest after broadcast was reportedly so strong that the website struggled to cope with the traffic, a good sign the product had genuinely connected with viewers.
A New Owner, A Bigger Range
Kendall sold the company in 2017 to Scott Carre, a businessman based in Guernsey, who moved operations to St Peter Port and pushed the brand beyond children's watches into styles aimed at adults too.
Selling a business is not the same thing as it failing. Plenty of founders on this show move on once a brand has outgrown what one person can manage alone, and someone choosing to buy it outright rather than let it wind down tells you the customer base still had real value.
Growing Up With Its Customers
A children's novelty toy usually has a short shelf life, popular for a season and then dropped for whatever comes next. Adding an adult range gives the brand a second act most one-trick novelty products never get.
Between the international push under new ownership and the wider age range, this looks closer to an established accessories label today than the single viral gadget it started out as.