Matt Widdall

BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/

✨St Pierre Groupe – rejecting ordinary in relentless pursuit of extraordinary ✨ St Pierre Groupe is an international market leader in the bakery sector, delivering world class bakery products under three distinctive brands – St Pierre, Baker Street and Paul Hollywood. Our products are on shelves in global retail and wholesale markets, as well as the hospitality industry and online across the UK, USA, Europe and the Middle East. In 2022, St Pierre Groupe joined Grupo Bimbo, becoming part of the world’s biggest bakery business. Flagship brand, St Pierre has been a finalist for The Grocer Gold Award’s Brand of the Year three times and in 2024 was also shortlisted for bakery brand of the year at Baking Industry Awards. Across it’s HQ in Manchester, UK and teams in America, St Pierre Groupe employs more than 90 associates, who all share the same passion for quality. We are on a mission to make the everyday extraordinary. We reject ordinary. We demand the best of each other. We delight our customers and consumers – always magnifique. We obsess about French deliciousness – brioche, bakery and beyond. Our curiosity, imagination and courage drive us to create the extraordinary. Born in Manchester but stylishly Parisian, we are unconventional. In a world of beige, we are proudly orange. We deliver our goals without compromising our people, communities, or planet. St Pierre Groupe: We reject ordinary in our relentless pursuit of the extraordinary. If you’d like to get in touch or find out more about the business, our brands, or our people, email enquiries@stpierregroupe.com

BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/