Pieminister is a pie making company based in
Bristol
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,
South West England
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. 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
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-certified fish. All its vegetarian pies are
Vegetarian Society
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approved.
One year after opening the first Pieminister they were invited to sell pies at London's
Borough Market
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, and attended their first
Glastonbury Festival
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in 2004, attending for ten years until rejection in 2015. The company now has shops in:
Covered Market, Oxford;
Trentham Estate;
Cardiff
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;
St Nicholas Market;
Gabriel's Wharf;
Boxpark;
;
Northern Quarter (Manchester)
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;
Bold Street, Liverpool. The company opened a shop in
Amsterdam
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in 2012.
For the year ending March 31, 2018,
Bristol Live 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