We are delighted to announce that Mindful Chef has been bought by Nestlé. In a wonderful two-year journey since we invested £6m in December 2018, sales have increased fivefold to £50m. It’s astonishing how something so special has been built in such a short period of time – school friends Giles Humphries, Myles Hopper and Robert
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We are delighted to announce our £11.5m investment into Wattbike, the world’s first smart indoor bike brand, joining the impressive team, led by CEO Rich Baker, on their mission to make Wattbike a global brand legend. Alongside us, the team will also be joined by non-executive chairman Gordon Baird, former chairman of sports footwear brand
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We are delighted to announce that we have sold our stake in natural dog food brand Forthglade to IK Investment Partners. We want to thank the Forthglade team for an incredible five-year journey which began when we invested £6m in September 2015 when the business had sales of £11m. We first met the team when
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Orlebar Brown opened its biggest UK store, and the first to stock its full womenswear collection, in Canary Wharf. The 850 sq ft store is the 4th Orlebar Brown store in the UK, located in the new Jubilee Place extension in Canary Wharf and one of 25 new stores in the 44,000 sq ft retail
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With the opening of its latest franchise in Beirut The Rug Company continues its international expasion. Two more company owned stores are due to open shortly in the US – in Dallas and Chicago.
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Piper has made its first investment from its £60 million fund, Piper Private Equity IV, backing the MBO of Rollover, the UKs leading premium hot dog supplier to the foodservice and leisure attraction markets. The £4.5 million investment will enable Rollover to continue its fast track growth by expanding the brand into existing and new