Last month, we invited the Sustainability Champions from our portfolio to our first and inaugural Sustainability Roundtable. It was an opportunity for those leading on sustainability in our partner brands to share ideas and discuss challenges. While every company has its own specific challenges in driving positive change that are tied to their business models,

When we began running our Founders’ Collective events with a small group of founders in our meeting room eight years ago, they were born from a desire to share learnings and encourage a community among founders building fast-growing brands. Since then, our community has grown to thousands of brands, founders, and brand-builders, who we regularly

With the rapid cancellation of all social events over the last couple of weeks, we now feel privileged to have been able to spend time at the beginning of November (in the superb Ham Yard Hotel) with the senior leadership teams from across all of our brands. Thank you to Francesca and the team for

A man buys 10 different chocolate bars and takes a bite out of each one. He puts a camera on himself and calls up the international emergency number and says ‘I want to turn myself in as a chocolate criminal. I’m complicit to financing child slavery. You have to come and arrest me.’ Unsurprisingly, nobody

Influencers. Stratospheric sales magnets or overpaid and overrated? It’s a question all consumer-facing brands have wrestled with in recent years as the growth of Instagram and TikTok continues apace. Few are more qualified to express an opinion than serial entrepreneur Grace Beverley. An influencer herself with more than 1m followers, she launched her first business,

Following on from the success of our previous virtual Geekmeet, in which one of our speakers joined us live from New York, the next logical step was to make our session fully transatlantic. For our latest Geekmeet, Piper’s popular and long-established roundtable of ecommerce minds, we teamed up with US-based Primary Venture Partners to conduct what

‘We were weeks away from going bust, so we decided to be completely transparent with our loyal community of Snagglers and ask them for their support through a Facebook SOS. We offered them two tights for the price of one, but the ‘snag’ was that they would pay now and only get both pairs in

The American dream – the goal of almost every British brand. But breaking into the US market is notoriously tricky and history is littered with the biggest household names (Tesco and M&S to name but two) who’ve gone west with grand ambitions only to see their dreams end in failure. E-commerce has removed many barriers