Pieminister is a pie making company based in
Bristol,
South West England. Pieminister pies can be found in their restaurants, supermarkets and online, as well as various pubs and deli shops across the UK. As of 2022, Pieminister has restaurants and cafes in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield and Stoke on Trent.
History
Pieminister was founded in 2003 by co-founders Jon Simon and Tristan Hogg.
The company uses 100% free range British meat and
Marine Stewardship Council-certified fish. All its vegetarian pies are
Vegetarian Society approved.
One year after opening the first Pieminister they were invited to sell pies at London's
Borough Market, and attended their first
Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contemp ...
in 2004, attending for ten years until rejection in 2015. The company now has shops in:
Covered Market, Oxford;
Trentham Estate;
Cardiff;
St Nicholas Market
St Nicholas Market is a market in Corn Street, Bristol, England in The Exchange in the Bristol City Centre. It is also home to the Bristol Farmers' Market, the Nails Market, and the Slow Food Market, all of which are located in front of the Exc ...
;
Gabriel's Wharf
The South Bank is an entertainment and commercial district in central London, next to the River Thames opposite the City of Westminster. It forms a narrow strip of riverside land within the London Borough of Lambeth (where it adjoins Albert ...
;
Boxpark
Boxpark is a food and retail park made out of refitted shipping containers in Britain. It was founded by Roger Wade, who described it as the "world's first pop-up mall". The first Boxpark was launched in Shoreditch in 2011, another was buil ...
;
;
Northern Quarter (Manchester);
Bold Street, Liverpool
Bold Street is a street in Liverpool, England. It is known for its cafés and for the Church of St Luke, which is situated at the top end. The bottom end leads into the area surrounding Clayton Square, which is part of the main retail district ...
. The company opened a shop in
Amsterdam in 2012.
For the year ending March 31, 2018,
Bristol Live
The ''Bristol Post'' is a city/regional five-day-a-week (formerly appearing six days per week) newspaper covering news in the city of Bristol, including stories from the whole of Greater Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. It was ...
reports Pieminister has boosted sales in 2018 growing 14% to £14.3 million. "The business sold over five millions pies, and served 50 tonnes of mash and 4,500 litres of gravy in its restaurants over the 12-month period."
Charity
In 2013, the company launched its Cattle Drive campaign in partnership with African Development charity Send a Cow, which aims to raise £40,000 to help kick-start 30 family farms in Africa.
Pieminister pledged to donate 10 pence to the campaign for every pie sold in supermarkets with a felt cow attached.
In 2022, Pieminister supported the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), a suicide prevention campaign, with donations for each sale of the 'It's All Gravy' pie.
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{{British pies
Food and drink companies established in 2003
Companies based in Bristol
British pie brands
Meat companies of the United Kingdom