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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 benefi... |
| 24.02.2024 | Day of the Nightingale raising £1m for Ukrainian child refug... | Привіт (pr. Pryvit). That’s ‘hello’ in Ukrainian.
I am sending a more personal email today, the Day... |
| 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 t... |
| 22.12.2023 | Living healthier and happier lives: Our 2024 trend predictio... | As we get excited for Christmas in the office, our Bloom & Wild mini-trees sparkling and the air... |
| 15.12.2023 | Our 2023 Black Friday Survey: Take part and learn from our c... | Take part in our survey here
Last year when we launched our Black Friday tracking survey, our goal ... |
| 05.12.2023 | Learnings from our Sustainability Roundtable | Last month, we invited the Sustainability Champions from our portfolio to our first and inaugural Su... |
| 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 employ... |
| 02.11.2023 | Our £7m investment in innovation-led wellness brand Ancient ... | We are delighted to announce our £7m investment into Ancient + Brave. As a mission-driven wellness b... |
| 17.08.2023 | The Piper Podcast: Catch up on four seasons of How I Grew My... | We’re hope you’re all having a wonderful summer, despite the slighty damp weather. At Piper, we’re p... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 f... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 w... |
| 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 Co... |
| 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... |
| 19.12.2022 | Death or rebirth of Black Friday: Please tell us in our annu... | Take part in our survey
With small annual holiday allowances, Americans have come to rely on nation... |
| 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 w... |
| 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... |
| 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 gro... |
| 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. E... |
| 15.09.2022 | Setting the tone: Tips on bringing your tone of voice to lif... | Following an emotive global event, such as the sad passing of our dear Queen Elizabeth II, brands on... |
| 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 business... |
| 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 per... |
| 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 cre... |
| 16.06.2022 | Our £7m investment into the leading small group cultural adv... | We are delighted to have invested £7m into Rabbie’s, the UK’s leading small group UK cultural advent... |
| 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 privileg... |
| 17.12.2021 | Acquisition: The Thinking Traveller becomes the largest excl... | We are delighted to announce that The Thinking Traveller has acquired leading Greek villa company Wh... |
| 08.12.2021 | Exit: Barking Heads bought by Inspired Pet Nutrition, joinin... | We are proud to announce that Inspired Pet Nutrition (IPN), a leading independent UK pet food compan... |
| 23.11.2021 | Investment: Our love of pets continues with £33m investment ... | We are delighted to announce that we have invested £33m in Omlet, the fast-growing online design-led... |
| 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... |
| 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 ahea... |
| 05.09.2021 | Events: Grace Beverley on the wise ways to influence your co... | Influencers. Stratospheric sales magnets or overpaid and overrated? It’s a question all consumer-fac... |
| 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 f... |
| 01.08.2021 | Events: Cross-Pond Thinking 2.0 10 learnings from our Geekme... | Following on from the success of our previous virtual Geekmeet, in which one of our speakers joined ... |
| 29.06.2021 | Events: Geekmeet – Cross-Pond Thinking, Best Practices of US... | The American dream – the goal of almost every British brand. But breaking into the US market is noto... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| 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 supple... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 24.01.2021 | Investment: Bloom & Wild receives £75m investment | Bloom & Wild to become Europe’s most loved flower gifting brand with £75m investment
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| 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 commu... |
| 06.12.2020 | Investment: Multi-award winning villa brand, The Thinking Tr... | We are excited to have invested £7m into The Thinking Traveller, the world’s most thoughtful villa b... |
| 06.12.2020 | Our £7m investment into multi-award winning villa brand, The... | We are excited to have invested £7m into The Thinking Traveller, the world’s most thoughtful villa b... |
| 12.11.2020 | Exit: Mindful Chef finds new home with Nestle after 5x growt... | We are delighted to announce that Mindful Chef has been bought by Nestlé. In a wonderful two-year jo... |
| 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 busine... |
| 13.10.2020 | Events: Our first virtual GeekMeet – Shopify | At Piper, we love helping entrepreneurial brands grow. To do this, we are constantly reassessing wha... |
| 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 bik... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 t... |
| 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 t... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 de... |
| 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... |
| 19.04.2020 | Editorial: Consumers in the time of coronavirus | There are plenty of unfamiliar sightings and perplexing behaviours around these days. Beyond creativ... |
| 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 ye... |
| 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, i... |
| 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 sc... |
| 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 ... |
| 05.11.2019 | #livinglifetothefull. How experiences are transforming peopl... | Although you wouldn’t know it salivating over the esoteric fusions in Soho’s eateries, all food has ... |
| 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... |
| 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 acc... |
| 26.07.2019 | How to take and keep your brand on tour: insights from the l... | ‘Why expand into the US?’ is a question many multichannel brands will ask themselves. To David Lockw... |
| 16.05.2019 | Delighting customers month-on-month: Insights on subscriptio... | Since first meeting our most recent investment, Mindful Chef, we have become fascinated with how bra... |
| 18.04.2019 | Sir John Hegarty and others discuss above the line advertisi... | ‘You have to remember that most people’s lives are really boring. I’ve always seen my job as enterta... |
| 05.03.2019 | We’re seeking the future stars in food and drink. The Seed F... | We’ve been very lucky to have partnered with some of today’s leading food and drink brands, from our... |
| 31.01.2019 | The importance of raising mental health awareness in the wor... | Public awareness of mental health is arguably higher than ever. After years in the wilderness, it is... |
| 07.01.2019 | Piper invests in fast growing healthy recipe box brand Mindf... | Piper have invested £6m into Mindful Chef, the UK’s favourite healthy recipe box brand.
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| 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 dis... |
| 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 ... |
| 04.11.2018 | Lessons from our annual Food & Drink Founders’ Collectiv... | We are curious creatures here at Piper and, as part of this curiosity, we love hearing and learning ... |
| 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.... |
| 01.10.2018 | Piper invests in pioneering online flower gifting brand Bloo... | Piper has invested £11m into Bloom & Wild, the online flower gifting brand that is disrupting Eu... |
| 28.09.2018 | Orlebar Brown sets sail from Piper to luxury fashion group C... | Piper has exited its investment in Orlebar Brown, the luxury swim and resort wear brand, to Chanel S... |
| 24.07.2018 | Piper successfully exits cocktail bar chain Be At One to Sto... | Piper has sold its stake in Be At One, the nationwide cocktail bar chain to Stonegate Pub Company.
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| 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 af... |
| 24.05.2018 | Jewels, bouquets & tights: learnings in retailing from o... | Do founders need a little more love? When do you know if you’ve backed the wrong horse? And how can ... |
| 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 w... |
| 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 y... |
| 27.11.2017 | Richard Reed, co-founder of Innocent talks at Piper's latest... | Last month, we invited some of the most exciting and innovative food and drink brands to our sixth S... |
| 16.10.2017 | Piper in the Frame with £6m boutique fitness brand investmen... | Frame was founded by Pip Black and Joan Murphy in 2009. Unable to find a gym or fitness studio that ... |
| 03.10.2017 | Hickory’s Smokehouse is a brand truly loved by local communi... | You will read about many a trendy hospitality concept in TimeOut, a hype layered on top of a hype, n... |
| 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... |
| 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 hospital... |
| 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, t... |
| 01.01.2017 | Piper successfully exits Loungers to Lion Capital in £137m d... | Piper has sold its stake in fast growing café-bar chain Loungers to Lion Capital in a transaction va... |
| 11.10.2016 | XYZ…brands should be scared of kids with an entrepreneurial ... | As a Millennial on the fringes of digital nativism, arrogantly I never thought that I would feel the... |
| 30.08.2016 | Propercorn secures £7m investment from Piper and Innocent fo... | PROPERCORN, the UK’s fastest growing popcorn brand, has secured financial backing from Piper and Jam... |
| 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... |
| 11.05.2016 | Piper raises £6k for children’s charities | A massive congratulations to two Piper colleagues, Dan Stern and Leon Hughes, who brilliantly finish... |
| 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 dyn... |
| 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.... |
| 08.02.2016 | Piper invests £14m in Monica Vinader | Piper has led a £20m investment into British affordable luxury jewellery brand, Monica Vinader. Alon... |
| 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 pre... |
| 28.09.2015 | Piper invests £6m in Forthglade | Piper, has made a significant investment in Forthglade, the UK’s most established maker of natural p... |
| 13.07.2015 | Session 3 – The F1 approach | GeekMeet is a regular roundtable of ecommerce minds from the consumer branded world, sharing learnin... |
| 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,... |
