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 sectors. Now in their 17th year, the awards are organised by industry journal M&C Report. Winners are selected

Our second video taken from interviews with some of our portfolio MD’s Piper has been named Investor of the Year at the prestigious Retailers’ Retailer Awards. To hear from our brands about how we like to work with investee businesses, please click on the below video link. The event, held at The Dorchester in London

On 15 May 2014, Piper brought together guests from leading luxury brands to discuss a range of contemporary issues facing their fast-growing sector. The speaker was James McArthur, CEO of Anya Hindmarch, the luxury handbags and accessories company. Having started in banking, McArthur has gone on to become one of the luxury industry’s most influential

Piper-backed Diet Chef, the UK’s leading home-delivery diet brand, has been recognised by the Marketing Society in its prestigious annual Awards for Excellence (www.marketingsocietyawards.com), Diet Chef has been nominated in the Excellence in E-commerce category alongside much larger and more established brands, including EasyJet, IHG, Expedia and lastminute.com. Diet Chef’s Deputy MD Brigette Read said:

Alex Reilley of Loungers has been singled out by his peers as the stand-out individual in the eating-out and drinking-out market. Alex collected the Best Individual prize at this year’s Retailers’ Retailer of the Year Awards, organised by M&C Report, which were held on 5th March at The Dorchester Hotel.

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’.

Be At One win ‘Best Business Initiative Award’. Be At One have been awarded the ’Best Business Initiative’ Award at the 2013 Publican Awards Event. The Publican Awards event, which took place on the 11th March at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, is highly regarded as one of the biggest and most established events in the

Leading delivered diet company, Diet Chef, has been ranked as one of Britain’s fastest growing private companies in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 league table. Diet Chef was a new entry at number three, following growth of 229% from an annualised £334,000 in 2008 to £11.9m in 2011. Founded in 2007 by Kevin