As a brand geek, I’ve been trying to find the positives in the current political maelstrom. With the masses turned into media butterflies, filling our minds with saucy speculation and secretive revelations, our newspaper moguls can finish the month smiling as newspaper sales spiked by 20%. It’s great to see the newly-found compulsion to read,

Bored, fickle, spoilt and impatient – not character traits I would willingly acknowledge to be mine. But when it comes to lunchtime foibles, I would nod reluctantly and add gluttony to my list of sins. Like one-third of those Piper surveyed recently in a number of high density working lunchtime hotspots in London and Manchester,

As both entrepreneurs and expert investors in the consumer space, Piper continue to be fascinated by the stories behind growing successful branded businesses. This video is the first in a series of in-depth interviews with some of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs and managers about their views on what it takes to build brand legends. Our

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

We are continually on the look out for opportunities to partner with fast-growing innovative retail and consumer brands. With this in mind, we wanted to give you a flavour of the calibre of brands that we are looking for and the pace of growth that our current brands are achieving. In the hospitality sector, Loungers

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

‘The hotel was nice but no pet-sitting service and rigid pillows? Disappointing!’. In a spectacularly candid yet mundane tone, ASmallWorld forum post decries an unforgiving lack of red-carpet treatment. It made me think that perhaps I was the wrong type to have been invited to join the invite-only social network. At first the invite had