Piper has sold Rollover to Kerry Foods. The deal was completed for an undisclosed sum. Since leading the BIMBO of Rollover in 2006, Piper has turned the company into the UK’s largest premium hot dog seller. Rollover hot dogs are sold in over 3,000 locations, including leading nationwide leisure, pub and retail chains along with
Our partnership with Piper has been extremely positive and beneficial to the business. The team has helped in many different areas – from providing the right level of financial support and introducing new customers to building our social media and enabling us to become more consumer-facing.
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On 27 January 2015, Piper brought together leading figures from Britain’s most dynamic bar and restaurant operators to discuss the challenges facing the hospitality sector. The speaker was Alex Reilley, co-founder and executive vice chairman of bar and restaurant group Loungers. Founded in Bristol in 2002, Loungers pioneered and developed the ‘Lounge’ neighbourhood café/bar concept,
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Yasha Estraikh led a workshop for the UK Fashion and Textile Association, a membership industry body responsible for mentoring British brands. The workshop focused on introducing attending fashion brand MDs to the investment process and to how Piper thinks about fashion brands.
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Yasha Estraikh spoke at the annual Propel Conference on November 20th, using the session to show how Piper thinks about hospitality rollouts through a mix of qualitative intuition and quantitative demographic analysis.
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On 24th September, 20 entrepreneurs from fast-growing hospitality brands attended Piper’s first ever SeedMeet Piper’s SeedMeet is a bi-annual event that helps smaller growing brands in various consumer sectors better understand the trial and tribulations of getting investment as well as to get an insight into the mind of the investor. Ajith Jayawickrema, founder of
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Piper has sold Justin Craig Education, the UK’s leading exam revision business, to MPW, one of the country’s best known and well respected independent college brands. The sale was completed for an undisclosed sum. Piper bought Justin Craig in 2008. Since then, it has doubled sales and become a leading brand in the group tuition
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Piper has made a significant investment in Hickory’s Smokehouse. Hickory’s is an American style, family friendly smokehouse and BBQ restaurant chain, with a strong focus on food quality and authenticity. Meats are slow cooked for up to 12 hours on smokers specially imported from Memphis. Guests are offered a unique dining experience (chef’s tables, milkshake
We are delighted to have selected Piper as our partner. I know we will benefit from their extensive knowledge and experience of the sector, and have already seen the value they can bring to bear so I am confident that together we will continue to build Hickory’s into a uniquely valuable business
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Loungers will reach 50 sites with the opening of Como Lounge in Witney, Oxfordshire on 6th July. Loungers started life in 2002 as a ten-table café/bar in the Southville suburb of Bristol and initially grew fairly slowly, only reaching double-figures of sites in 2009. However, aided by Piper’s investment in 2012, since then the group