Pieminister

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 in 2004 attending for ten years until rejection in 2015. The company now has shops in: Covered Market, Oxford; Trentham Estate; St Nicholas Market; Gabriel's Wharf; Boxpark, Leather Lane; Northern Quarter (Manchester). The company opened a shop in Amsterdam in 2012.

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.