Piper – Growing Brands Consumers Love · Adam Brown, founder of Orlebar Brown As our first email of the year, we are excited to share the first episode from our new and fourth season of our podcast series, How I Grew My Brand, where we talk to founders growing what we at Piper call brand legends. You

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 our ‘How I Grew My Brand’ podcast series. Whether you need a

Nicola Elliott has told how a ‘magic’ tincture created for aching footballers inspired her to launch wellbeing brand Neom Organics. ‘My husband is a sports teacher and I used to blend oils for him when he came back from playing football,’ says Elliott in the third of Piper’s ‘7, 17, 70’ podcast interviews with leading

His brand pioneered the concept of ‘letterbox flowers’ and has gone on to sell more than 50 million flowers across the UK, France and Germany. But Aron Gelbard, co-founder and CEO of Bloom & Wild, has revealed how his revolutionary idea nearly fell at the very first hurdle. ‘When we started, we assumed there was

She is the author of one of the fastest selling debut cookbooks ever and creator of one of the country’s most popular food and lifestyle brands. But Ella Mills, founder and creative director of Deliciously Ella, has revealed how she never anticipated a career in business, let alone as the face of her eponymous empire.

For years, exercise was seen as a necessary evil and a long-term financial commitment. But Pip Black and Joan Murphy, co-founders of Frame, have told how a change of focus helped them launch a fitness brand that would go on to revolutionise the industry.‘We [as a society] had this very negative attitude towards fitness,’ says

Steve Moore and Paul Barham, co-founders of social darts chain Flight Club, have told how they were forced to raise £160,000 in an afternoon after their bank lending failed. ‘Our builders were going to go off site, so we basically had six hours to borrow money. It was horrible,’ says Moore in the latest podcast

Fairfax Hall and Sam Galsworthy, two of the three co-founders of premium craft gin brand Sipsmith, have told how an ‘insane level of naivety’ helped them to rewrite 200 years of history and build a new gin distillery in London.  Hall and Galsworthy are childhood friends from Cornwall who had been ‘nicking gin from the drinks cabinet