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| 11.03.2024 | Celebrating B Corp Month 2024 | It’s March which means it is B Corp Month, a month-long campaign to promote and celebrate the benefits of B Corp certification. We are so proud to have invested in 7 certified brands and to have welcomed The Thinking Traveller and Bloom &am... |
| 24.02.2024 | Day of the Nightingale raising £1m for Ukrainian child refugees | Привіт (pr. Pryvit). That’s ‘hello’ in Ukrainian.
I am sending a more personal email today, the Day of the Nightingale. I wanted to say thank you to all the wonderful partners who have supported my initiative.
I started Solovey, a Ukraini... |
| 02.02.2024 | Our Black Friday Tracker: Insights from our brand community | In recent catch-ups with founders, we’ve heard a lot about the extent of competitor discounting in the run up to Christmas. This has been reflected in our annual tracker Black Friday survey with our brand community where respondents echoed ... |
| 22.12.2023 | Living healthier and happier lives: Our 2024 trend predictions | As we get excited for Christmas in the office, our Bloom & Wild mini-trees sparkling and the air scented by NEOM’s Christmas Wishes candle, we’re reflecting on another year of big changes in consumer behaviour, margin pressures, channel... |
| 15.12.2023 | Our 2023 Black Friday Survey: Take part and learn from our community | Take part in our survey here
Last year when we launched our Black Friday tracking survey, our goal was to understand how brands use Black Friday and why. There was lots of talk of the tide turning against it and brands wanting to move away... |
| 05.12.2023 | Learnings from our Sustainability Roundtable | Last month, we invited the Sustainability Champions from our portfolio to our first and inaugural Sustainability Roundtable. It was an opportunity for those leading on sustainability in our partner brands to share ideas and discuss challeng... |
| 27.11.2023 | AI Insights from our Geekmeet | Rarely a day goes by at the moment without a story about AI leading to an end of humanity and employment or a revolutionary opportunity for brands to automate, optimise, and enhance their business processes and customer experience. It’s all... |
| 02.11.2023 | Our £7m investment in innovation-led wellness brand Ancient + Brave | We are delighted to announce our £7m investment into Ancient + Brave. As a mission-driven wellness brand, Ancient + Brave uses natural ingredients and science-led innovation alongside ancestral wisdom and daily rituals to create a range of ... |
| 17.08.2023 | The Piper Podcast: Catch up on four seasons of How I Grew My Brand Legend | We’re hope you’re all having a wonderful summer, despite the slighty damp weather. At Piper, we’re preparing season five of our Piper podcast, How I Grew My Brand Legend for launch next month. We won’t yet reveal which inspirational founder... |
| 10.08.2023 | Founders’ Collective – Innovation Done Properly | When we began running our Founders’ Collective events with a small group of founders in our meeting room eight years ago, they were born from a desire to share learnings and encourage a community among founders building fast-growing brands.... |
| 29.06.2023 | Piper's Sustainable Investment Impact Report 2022 | As our ESG Lead, I am delighted to share our third Sustainable Investment report. You can read the full report HERE.
With our recent exit and reinvestment into leading ethical jewellery brand Monica Vinader, we are seeing increased evidenc... |
| 14.06.2023 | Our New Fund - Looking for Brand Legends | We are delighted to announce that we have closed our latest fund, Fund VII, and are looking forward to partnering with 10-12 future brand legends over the next five years, investing £5-20m into each one. For us, a brand legend has:
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| 05.06.2023 | Our continuing partnership with a jewellery brand legend | Read more
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| 12.05.2023 | Welcoming Lizzie to the team | As we continue to look for future brand legends, we are expanding our team. We are delighted to be welcoming Lizzie Lord as Investment Executive.
Lizzie has both a strong financial and commercial background having worked for PwC in their d... |
| 31.03.2023 | B Corp Month: Why we invest in B Corps | We hope that you’ve all noticed the B Corp community being a bit louder over March, celebrating B Corp Month with the #WeGoBeyond campaign by showcasing the many ways B Corps have chosen to pursue a more impactful path and are going above a... |
| 30.01.2023 | Pitcher & Piano: The story of our first brand legend | If you’ve met any of the Piper team before, you will most likely already know the story of our first brand legend, Pitcher & Piano. Created in the 1986 by our founders, the popular bar-chain was a hospitality pioneer and became synonymo... |
| 19.12.2022 | Death or rebirth of Black Friday: Please tell us in our annual survey? | Take part in our survey
With small annual holiday allowances, Americans have come to rely on national days for their extended weekends. Some of these have crept over the pond – Halloween spending is now more than £400m; some 13m celebrate ... |
| 14.12.2022 | Gift a bottle of hope this Christmas. | Hello, I’m Yasha. If I haven’t crossed paths with you, I’m part of the team here at Piper and work with our partner brands in helping them become brand legends. I also happen to be Ukrainian. When the war broke out last February, I did what... |
| 24.10.2022 | Piper is now proudly a certified B Corporation! | We are incredibly proud to announce that Piper is now a member of the B Corp community, joining over 800 certified UK businesses, and 5,000+ businesses around the world.
A B Corporation is a business that has committed to being a force for... |
| 12.10.2022 | Piper exits Hickory’s to Greene King | We are delighted to announce our exit from Hickory’s, the UK’s leading BBQ smokehouse restaurant group, to pub retailer and brewer Greene King.
Founded in 2010 by Neil McDonnell, Hickory’s is a family friendly, smokehouse and BBQ restauran... |
| 04.10.2022 | Leon Hughes and Rory Gibbs promoted to partners at Piper | We are delighted to share that Leon Hughes and Rory Gibbs have been promoted to partners at Piper. Everyone in our community will know how deserved this is for both of them.
Rory leads on many of our deals, especially in pet care and F&... |
| 15.09.2022 | Setting the tone: Tips on bringing your tone of voice to life | Following an emotive global event, such as the sad passing of our dear Queen Elizabeth II, brands on social media have to make choices, starting with whether to publicly react or stay silent. The decision often has to be made at pace, witho... |
| 25.08.2022 | Catch up with Season 4 of our podcast, How I Grew My Brand | Sometimes it can be good to take a step back and remember the incredible success of British businesses in recent years, as a reminder of how good we are at finding opportunities and overcoming the odds when times are tough.
You can find ma... |
| 10.08.2022 | How Augmented Reality uplifted Wattbike’s purchase rate. | Our partner brand Wattbike’s smart indoor trainer bikes are expertly designed to accelerate your performance improvement. Every part of the equipment and customer journey works towards this goal. How the indoor trainers’ function, the space... |
| 21.07.2022 | Our new Sustainable Investment report | When we presented our first Sustainable Investment report to you a year ago, the world was still creaking back to life after a year and a half of pandemic lockdowns. None of us knew then that while the worst of Covid was behind us, 2022 wou... |
| 16.06.2022 | Our £7m investment into the leading small group cultural adventures travel brand | We are delighted to have invested £7m into Rabbie’s, the UK’s leading small group UK cultural adventures travel brand, taking groups of travellers on one-day and multi-day mini-coach tours across the UK and Europe.
Founded in 1993 by Robin... |
| 23.12.2021 | Events: Culture learnings from our partner brands | With the rapid cancellation of all social events over the last couple of weeks, we now feel privileged to have been able to spend time at the beginning of November (in the superb Ham Yard Hotel) with the senior leadership teams from across ... |
| 17.12.2021 | Acquisition: The Thinking Traveller becomes the largest exclusive villa rental brand in Greece. | We are delighted to announce that The Thinking Traveller has acquired leading Greek villa company White Key Villas, making it the largest exclusive high-end villa brand in Greece.
Only a year since our £7 million investment, it represents ... |
| 08.12.2021 | Exit: Barking Heads bought by Inspired Pet Nutrition, joining Wagg and Harringtons. | We are proud to announce that Inspired Pet Nutrition (IPN), a leading independent UK pet food company, has announced the acquisition of Pet Food UK, including its three brands Barking Heads, Meowing Heads and AATU, from Piper and its founde... |
| 23.11.2021 | Investment: Our love of pets continues with £33m investment in global pet accessories brand Omlet | We are delighted to announce that we have invested £33m in Omlet, the fast-growing online design-led pet accessories brand on a mission to become the number one global brand enhancing the experience of owning a pet for owners and pets alike... |
| 24.10.2021 | Events: A mission so sweet. The story of Tony's Chocolonely. | A man buys 10 different chocolate bars and takes a bite out of each one. He puts a camera on himself and calls up the international emergency number and says ‘I want to turn myself in as a chocolate criminal. I’m complicit to financing chil... |
| 28.09.2021 | The journey to our first Sustainable Investment Report | Digging into the Piper archives, you will find some brands we’ve worked with that were slightly ahead of their time. There was the Loft, a warehouse selling second-hand clothing – the pre-internet eBay? Then there was Cranks, a six-site Lon... |
| 05.09.2021 | Events: Grace Beverley on the wise ways to influence your community | Influencers. Stratospheric sales magnets or overpaid and overrated? It’s a question all consumer-facing brands have wrestled with in recent years as the growth of Instagram and TikTok continues apace.
Few are more qualified to express an o... |
| 22.08.2021 | Podcast: Have you listened to our podcasts? | After the year we’ve had, it seems like the whole country has an out-of-office on this August, and fair enough! So we thought this a good time to share the fascinating stories from founders that we have interviewed for the three seasons of ... |
| 01.08.2021 | Events: Cross-Pond Thinking 2.0 10 learnings from our Geekmeet | Following on from the success of our previous virtual Geekmeet, in which one of our speakers joined us live from New York, the next logical step was to make our session fully transatlantic.
For our latest Geekmeet, Piper’s popular and long... |
| 29.06.2021 | Events: Geekmeet – Cross-Pond Thinking, Best Practices of US E-Commerce Strategy | The American dream – the goal of almost every British brand. But breaking into the US market is notoriously tricky and history is littered with the biggest household names (Tesco and M&S to name but two) who’ve gone west with grand ambi... |
| 15.06.2021 | Community: Sign up to the Better Business Act coalition. | As part of our commitment to becoming a B Corp later in the year, we are delighted to have joined a coalition of businesses supporting the Better Business Act.
A campaign to rally business around an ask to government to amend section 172 o... |
| 21.04.2021 | Community: Join us in supporting All Together | In the dozens of weekly conversations that we are having with our community of brand leaders, we can sense renewed optimism. Yet, we are also well aware that founders and CEOs today are making critical decisions that will determine not only... |
| 11.04.2021 | Investment: Food-Grown® supplements brand Wild Nutrition | We are delighted to announce our £5m investment into Wild Nutrition, an online natural health supplements brand that has disrupted the UK’s £20bn health and wellness market and transformed the lives of customers through highly effective Foo... |
| 03.03.2021 | Our approach to brand-building. | It’s an awkward time to send out emails, in knowing what to actually say. As we speak to hundreds of founders, we are mindful that many are agonising about how to keep their businesses afloat or dealing with sudden and significant growth pa... |
| 31.01.2021 | Exit: PROPER bags new home | We are delighted to announce that Exponent Private Equity has taken a majority stake in our partner brand PROPER, creating a partnership with Eat Real and marking the end of our wonderful five-year journey with the team at PROPER.
Although... |
| 24.01.2021 | Investment: Bloom & Wild receives £75m investment | Bloom & Wild to become Europe’s most loved flower gifting brand with £75m investment
We are excited to announce an investment of £75m into Bloom & Wild, led by some of the world’s top investors in consumer brands, including US inve... |
| 20.12.2020 | Events: Community power – our latest Geekmeet | ‘We were weeks away from going bust, so we decided to be completely transparent with our loyal community of Snagglers and ask them for their support through a Facebook SOS. We offered them two tights for the price of one, but the ‘snag’ was... |
| 06.12.2020 | Our £7m investment into multi-award winning villa brand, The Thinking Traveller | We are excited to have invested £7m into The Thinking Traveller, the world’s most thoughtful villa brand, backing founders and joint-CEOs Huw and Rossella Beaugié and their team in the next stage of growth. They will be joined as Executive ... |
| 06.12.2020 | Investment: Multi-award winning villa brand, The Thinking Traveller | We are excited to have invested £7m into The Thinking Traveller, the world’s most thoughtful villa brand, backing founders and joint-CEOs Huw and Rossella Beaugié and their team in the next stage of growth. They will be joined as Executive ... |
| 12.11.2020 | Exit: Mindful Chef finds new home with Nestle after 5x growth | We are delighted to announce that Mindful Chef has been bought by Nestlé. In a wonderful two-year journey since we invested £6m in December 2018, sales have increased fivefold to £50m.
It’s astonishing how something so special has been bui... |
| 25.10.2020 | Editorial: Growing cultures in challenger brands | If you come to our office and weave your way into the Cosy Room, you will find our library of business books, amassed over the last 35 years. Within this archive, some of the older books feel historical (especially the ones about the rise o... |
| 13.10.2020 | Events: Our first virtual GeekMeet – Shopify | At Piper, we love helping entrepreneurial brands grow. To do this, we are constantly reassessing what founders and businesses need from a partner in supporting their growth. Although our in-house team’s experience is essential, our partner ... |
| 13.09.2020 | Investment: Smart bike brand Wattbike | We are delighted to announce our £11.5m investment into Wattbike, the world’s first smart indoor bike brand, joining the impressive team, led by CEO Rich Baker, on their mission to make Wattbike a global brand legend. Alongside us, the team... |
| 01.09.2020 | Exit: Forthglade quadruples branded sales | We are delighted to announce that we have sold our stake in natural dog food brand Forthglade to IK Investment Partners. We want to thank the Forthglade team for an incredible five-year journey which began when we invested £6m in September ... |
| 05.08.2020 | Editorial: After-Covid - The New Work Order | In the Before-Covid (BC) age, life was different. An almost forgotten era when we traipsed through the office complaining about our journey in and worried about not having enough seats in the office.
In the After-Covid (AC) world, there is... |
| 15.07.2020 | Editorial: Raising a glass to all those in hospitality | ‘Went to Hickory’s on the first night after the lockdown and the first thing I can say is WOW. The things that they have put into place are amazing. Well done Hickory’s. You have got this so right, and all done safely. Thank you for giving ... |
| 28.06.2020 | The Piper Podcast: Have you listened to our founder stories? |
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| 21.06.2020 | Editorial: Wellbeing in the time of corona | In 2008, Leonard Lauder, Chairman of Estée Lauder, claimed that lipstick was just what women needed as a small pick-me-up luxury during a recession. That year, lipstick sales were up 11%.
Yet, as we approach the end of lockdown and the mos... |
| 31.05.2020 | Editorial: Holidaying in the time of corona | You would be forgiven for thinking that the recent scene of people crowded ever so snugly in Botany Bay (a Kent beach) was a visceral reaction after two months of isolation and confinement. Yet this image of British holidaymaking is as hack... |
| 17.05.2020 | Editorial: Staying fit and healthy in the time of corona | Additions to the vernacular are big indicators of local mindsets – and coronavirus has inspired a deluge. ‘Coronaspeck’ is the somewhat waggish German word for the fat deposited by weeks of stay-at-home grazing. Across the border, ‘rester e... |
| 03.05.2020 | Editorial: Eating and drinking in the time of corona | We are fortunate to be able to spend time supporting smaller challenger brands on their journeys. We often feel we learn as much from them as they do from us – they’re a vanguard for fresh ideas and unerring positivity even in these precari... |
| 19.04.2020 | Editorial: Consumers in the time of coronavirus | There are plenty of unfamiliar sightings and perplexing behaviours around these days. Beyond creative face masks, dexterous opening of park gates with feet and people humming ‘Happy Birthday’ while washing their hands, for Londoners nothing... |
| 01.03.2020 | Community: The Seed Fund - Call for Entries 2020 | We are proud and excited to be working with the wonderful people at The Seed Fund once again this year looking for the food and drink stars of the future.
Now in its 8th year, The Seed Fund supports and nurtures budding entrepreneurs. Foll... |
| 09.02.2020 | Event: Piper Geekmeet - why Google needs a regular tickle… | Jamie Riddell recently entered the ‘third act’ of his career. If it’s anything like the first two, it won’t be short on drama. Riddell joined the latest GeekMeet, Piper’s popular roundtable of ecommerce minds, to impart some lessons learned... |
| 20.12.2019 | Community: 10 things we learnt from this year’s Seed Fund. | For the fifth year now, it has been a privilege to support The Seed Fund, an altruistic mentoring scheme for food and drink brands turning over sub-£1m and run by The Collaborators. The 250 applications this year were the most impressive ye... |
| 01.12.2019 | Events: Amazon insights from our Ecommerce Geekmeet | In our recent survey of 2,000 online consumers in which we asked consumers to name brands they most trust, Amazon was far ahead of the pack. They have come to rely on it (47% had a Prime subscription) and are rarely let down (even when deli... |
| 05.11.2019 | #livinglifetothefull. How experiences are transforming people’s leisure time. | Although you wouldn’t know it salivating over the esoteric fusions in Soho’s eateries, all food has humble roots.
The Basque pintxo is no exception. People heading to the cider houses and bodegas in the old part of San Sebastián to buy the... |
| 06.10.2019 | Do consumers really care about saving the world? | ‘Do consumers really care about saving the world?’ Posed in a purposefully obtuse manner by a member of the audience, it nevertheless managed to generate an animated response from the panel that we were asked to join at the annual FUTR Summ... |
| 19.09.2019 | Piper On The Case With Investment In Innovative Brand Mous | We are proud to announce a minority investment in Mous, the fast growing direct-to-consumer tech accessories brand that has designed some of the most innovative phone accessories in the world.
With two highly skilled product development te... |
| 26.07.2019 | How to take and keep your brand on tour: insights from the latest GeekMeet | ‘Why expand into the US?’ is a question many multichannel brands will ask themselves. To David Lockwood, a better question is: ‘Why not?’
As he reminded guests at Piper’s latest GeekMeet – our regular roundtable of ecommerce minds from the... |
| 16.05.2019 | Delighting customers month-on-month: Insights on subscription from Piper’s GeekMeet | Since first meeting our most recent investment, Mindful Chef, we have become fascinated with how brands use subscription to delight their customers. Referred to as ‘subcom’ by those working in the space, it’s a business model that is attrac... |
| 18.04.2019 | Sir John Hegarty and others discuss above the line advertising on a budget | ‘You have to remember that most people’s lives are really boring. I’ve always seen my job as entertaining people, making their lives less boring.’
As the creator of iconic adverts for the likes of Levi’s, Lynx and Audi, Sir John Hegarty ha... |
| 05.03.2019 | We’re seeking the future stars in food and drink. The Seed Fund 2019 entries now open | We’ve been very lucky to have partnered with some of today’s leading food and drink brands, from our most recent investment in Mindful Chef to Propercorn and Bottlegreen. It’s only fair that we give back to the community and help the next g... |
| 31.01.2019 | The importance of raising mental health awareness in the workplace | Public awareness of mental health is arguably higher than ever. After years in the wilderness, it is finally being addressed in schools, workplaces, the media and in government.
But there is still much work to do. Prince William recently t... |
| 07.01.2019 | Piper invests in fast growing healthy recipe box brand Mindful Chef | Piper have invested £6m into Mindful Chef, the UK’s favourite healthy recipe box brand.
Mindful Chef was set up by childhood school friends Rob Grieg-Gran, Giles Humphries and Myles Hopper with a mission to make healthy eating easy. Since ... |
| 20.12.2018 | How Bloom & Wild brings delight to customer services… | To many companies, it’s the department most unloved, neglected and left toiling away in the most distant corner of the office.
But the customer services function at Bloom & Wild couldn’t be more different. It’s not even defined as prov... |
| 02.12.2018 | Learnings from our annual Beauty Founders' Collective | One of the tricks of investing in consumer brands is gauging where the prevailing winds are blowing and, most importantly for us, if they will build into a gale or peter out in 5 to 10 years’ time. Unpicking this is a fine mix of gut-inspir... |
| 04.11.2018 | Lessons from our annual Food & Drink Founders’ Collective | We are curious creatures here at Piper and, as part of this curiosity, we love hearing and learning from inspiring leaders. This is part of the reason for holding regular events at our offices bringing together entrepreneurs growing challen... |
| 11.10.2018 | Piper expands team with two new appointments | Piper has enhanced its consumer offering with the appointments of Saskia Roberts and Flora McAlpine.
Saskia Roberts has spent nearly 20 years working for customer and retail consultancies on strategy, customer proposition, marketing and br... |
| 01.10.2018 | Piper invests in pioneering online flower gifting brand Bloom & Wild | Piper has invested £11m into Bloom & Wild, the online flower gifting brand that is disrupting Europe’s £14bn fresh cut flower market.
Founded in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild has transformed the online flower g... |
| 28.09.2018 | Orlebar Brown sets sail from Piper to luxury fashion group CHANEL | Piper has exited its investment in Orlebar Brown, the luxury swim and resort wear brand, to Chanel SA. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2007 by Adam Brown and former business partner Julia Simpson-Orlebar, Orleba... |
| 24.07.2018 | Piper successfully exits cocktail bar chain Be At One to Stonegate Pub Company | Piper has sold its stake in Be At One, the nationwide cocktail bar chain to Stonegate Pub Company.
Since its £8m investment in 2011, Piper has supported Be At One in expanding the business beyond its original London base, taking the chain ... |
| 20.06.2018 | Paws for thought – dog owners prefer pets to family… | The humble dog is no longer just man’s best friend – it has overtaken close family members in our affections, according to our latest survey, in association with pet lifestyle website PetsPyjamas. Piper currently has two leading natural pet... |
| 24.05.2018 | Jewels, bouquets & tights: learnings in retailing from our 10th Founders’ Collective | Do founders need a little more love? When do you know if you’ve backed the wrong horse? And how can you build the ‘IKEA of tights’?
These were just some of the questions posed at Piper’s latest Founders’ Collective, a quarterly gathering o... |
| 12.04.2018 | How challenger brands inspire in challenging times | As investors in consumer brands, it can be dispiriting to read the papers, bombarded with tales of woeful mismanagement and a gloomy malaise, a self-fulfilling prophecy fast becoming a hardened reality. It can be just as depressing walking ... |
| 21.12.2017 | Piper invests in beauty and wellbeing brand Neom Organics | Neom was founded in 2005 by friends Nicola Elliott and Oliver Mennell. After spending seven hectic years as an editor at Glamour magazine, Nicola noticed her own wellbeing, and that of her close friends, was affected by the stress and deman... |
| 27.11.2017 | Richard Reed, co-founder of Innocent talks at Piper's latest SeedMeet for entrepreneurs. | Last month, we invited some of the most exciting and innovative food and drink brands to our sixth SeedMeet at Piper – a round-table forum for entrepreneurs to hear from three key industry experts and discuss the issues and opportunities th... |
| 16.10.2017 | Piper in the Frame with £6m boutique fitness brand investment | Frame was founded by Pip Black and Joan Murphy in 2009. Unable to find a gym or fitness studio that gave them the flexibility, variety and fun they wanted, they set out to create it themselves. Frame’s central ethos is that getting fit shou... |
| 03.10.2017 | Hickory’s Smokehouse is a brand truly loved by local communities | You will read about many a trendy hospitality concept in TimeOut, a hype layered on top of a hype, niche concepts loved (fleetingly) by young London urbanites.
At Piper, we love the unsung heroes of the industry. Loungers, Hickory’s Smokeh... |
| 02.06.2017 | Golden oldies or the forgotten generation? | They have money, time and will travel. They’re growing at an unprecedented rate and should be firmly on the radar of more brands.
They are the ‘mature’ (60+) consumers. And, by 2047, it is predicted they will number more than two billion w... |
| 06.03.2017 | Piper takes a stake in Flat Iron | Piper, the UK’s leading specialist investor in consumer brands and recognised expert in the hospitality sector, has made a significant minority investment in Flat Iron, the much loved steak restaurant group.
The first Flat Iron was founded... |
| 06.03.2017 | Piper invests £5M in Barking Heads and Meowing Heads | Piper has increased its presence in the natural pet food sector by investing £5m into Pet Food UK, the company behind the Barking Heads, Meowing Heads and AATU brands. Pet Food UK was founded in 2009 by Paul Hunter, Dave O’Regan and Jim Mol... |
| 01.01.2017 | Piper successfully exits Loungers to Lion Capital in £137m deal | Piper has sold its stake in fast growing café-bar chain Loungers to Lion Capital in a transaction valuing the business at £137m.
Piper invested £16m in Loungers in April 2012 when the business comprised 20 Lounges and three Cosy Club sites... |
| 11.10.2016 | XYZ…brands should be scared of kids with an entrepreneurial chromosome | As a Millennial on the fringes of digital nativism, arrogantly I never thought that I would feel the alienation of technological progress like my parents must have felt with iPods and Facebook (although to my abhorrence they’ve recently jum... |
| 30.08.2016 | Propercorn secures £7m investment from Piper and Innocent founders | PROPERCORN, the UK’s fastest growing popcorn brand, has secured financial backing from Piper and JamJar, the investment vehicle for the three innocent founders. The £7m investment – the first major injection of funds in PROPERCORN’s five ye... |
| 13.07.2016 | Growing challenger brands in challenging times | As a brand geek, I’ve been trying to find the positives in the current political maelstrom. With the masses turned into media butterflies, filling our minds with saucy speculation and secretive revelations, our newspaper moguls can finish t... |
| 11.05.2016 | Piper’s 3rd seedmeet focuses on fashion and accessories | Piper’s 3rd SeedMeet focuses on fashion and accessories
On 20th April, Piper brought together a dynamic group of entrepreneurs for its latest SeedMeet, this time focusing on the fashion and accessories market.
Piper’s SeedMeets are design... |
| 11.05.2016 | Piper raises £6k for children’s charities | A massive congratulations to two Piper colleagues, Dan Stern and Leon Hughes, who brilliantly finished the London Marathon after months of hard work (one did significantly better than the other but no need to mention names). They also manag... |
| 23.03.2016 | Our thoughts on the lunchtime eating market | Bored, fickle, spoilt and impatient – not character traits I would willingly acknowledge to be mine. But when it comes to lunchtime foibles, I would nod reluctantly and add gluttony to my list of sins.
Like one-third of those Piper surveye... |
| 08.02.2016 | Piper invests £14m in Monica Vinader | Piper has led a £20m investment into British affordable luxury jewellery brand, Monica Vinader. Alongside its own investment of £14m, Piper has brought in US consumer specialist Winona Capital, who have invested £6m to help accelerate growt... |
| 09.11.2015 | Piper exits The Rug Company | Piper, has sold its stake in The Rug Company to Palamon Capital Partners. The Rug Company is the preeminent global luxury rug brand. Under Piper’s investment, it has more than doubled sales and expanded worldwide with 12 new store openings.... |
| 28.09.2015 | Piper invests £6m in Forthglade | Piper, has made a significant investment in Forthglade, the UK’s most established maker of natural pet food.
Forthglade has been making high quality, natural dog and cat food for over 40 years. Based in Devon, the business develops its own... |
| 13.07.2015 | Session 3 – The F1 approach | GeekMeet is a regular roundtable of ecommerce minds from the consumer branded world, sharing learnings from their everyday work. Under Chatham House rules, the forum provides a vehicle for like-minded individuals to freely discuss trading c... |
| 09.03.2015 | Piper named investor of the year | Piper has been named Investor of the Year at the prestigious Retailers’ Retailer Awards.
The event, held at The Dorchester in London on March 4, recognises the best companies, concepts and individuals in the eating-out and drinking-out sec... |
