GeekMeet is a regular digest 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 conditions, issues, trends and innovation whilst benchmarking online marketing strategies, people and agencies. In this second session, the topic

On 20 November 2013, at the tenth in Piper’s popular series of networking lunches, guests from a wide range of food and drink brands discussed challenges facing their ever-changing sector. The speaker was Adam Balon, co-founder of Innocent Drinks and a member of Piper’s Advisory Panel. Balon gave an entertaining account of Innocent’s early days.

Loungers was named Operator of the Year at the annual R200 Awards on 6th November at Merchants Tavern in London’s Shoreditch. Judges said that it had been another impressive year and that they had become the ‘masters of the off-pitch site’.

GeekMeet is a regular digest 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 conditions, issues, trends and innovation whilst benchmarking online marketing strategies, people and agencies. Do you think like your customers?

Piper, the leading specialist investor in consumer brands, has recruited Dan Stern to its in-house team. With more than 10 years of experience in the consumer sector, Stern joins Piper as Investment Director. He previously spent four years in the consumer team at 3i, where he worked on the acquisition of GO Outdoors and the

It’s amazing what perspective distance gives you in your perception of others. As a typical middle-aged, middle-class North Londoner travelling around India, you can feel as one when Ashraming with an Austrian narcoleptic World of Warcraft champion; whilst getting snooted at by the Parisians, you can feel in total unison playing pool with a 16-year

It’s important to look after yourself: hand cream for when you are clammy or distressed; face wash for grubby ‘head packed inside that man’s armpit’ tube affairs; tweezers to curb the bridge between the brows; trimmers for permanent cultivated unshaven stubble looks and those wondering chest hairs that sometimes have the habit of coming through

Weird Fish, the Cheltenham-based casual leisure brand, has recruited Kelvin Vidler as international sales director. As former managing director of Americana International (the fashion group behind the Bench and Hooch brands) and clothing company Lee Cooper, Vidler has extensive experience in international expansion. He will drive Weird Fish’s international wholesale business, initially targeting Northern Europe.