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Named brand activations, corporate hospitality for global technology and media teams, and food and beverage concepts we designed, staffed and opened. Every entry lists the client, the constraint, what we actually did and the numbers we recorded.
Multi-day and multi-site activations for luxury, retail and entertainment brands, where the brand itself is on show and service standards are non-negotiable.
8 case studiesCorporate events & hospitalityOffice, studio and workplace events for global technology, media and finance teams — delivered to fixed windows and headcounts.
7 case studiesConcepts & buildsConsumer-facing food and beverage concepts designed, staffed, trained and opened from zero. The same operating discipline a pop-up, stand or long-run activation needs.
4 case studiesMulti-day and multi-site activations for luxury, retail and entertainment brands, where the brand itself is on show and service standards are non-negotiable.
Pearl Lemon delivered a 10-day coffee activation for Jaeger-LeCoultre with two specialist baristas, serving 4,006 cups without a single day of service failure in a space-constrained luxury retail environment.
Days delivered
Cups served
Specialist baristas
Pearl Lemon delivered a European airport activation supporting Charlotte Tilbury's Summerline launch, staffing a travel-retail environment where every guest interaction has to land in under two minutes.
European airport terminal
Summerline campaign support
Pearl Lemon staffed and delivered a WWE crew activation in London on a lead time of under four weeks, from brief to live delivery.
Weeks from brief to delivery
Market delivered
Pearl Lemon built and staffed a matcha stand inside a Hackett London store launch, giving the retail floor a reason for guests to stay in the space rather than pass through it.
Store launch delivered
Live retail environment
Pearl Lemon delivered a luxury matcha activation for the Boohoo x Kourtney Kardashian Barker collaboration launch, built for a room of press, talent and content creators.
Collaboration launch
Matcha serve specification
Pearl Lemon served 400 Wise guests across a two-hour window using four drink formats built in the brand's green, on a one-week lead time.
Guests served
Service window
Drink formats
Pearl Lemon staffed and ran three L'Or Espresso pop-up coffee activations with Hot Pickle, training the crew in a single day to hold one identical serve standard across all three dates.
Pop-up activations
Crew training
Serve standard across all dates
Pearl Lemon designs and delivers seasonal corporate activations — including Halloween and Chinese New Year programmes — where the calendar moment carries the internal engagement objective.
Seasonal programmes
Immovable delivery dates
Office, studio and workplace events for global technology, media and finance teams — delivered to fixed windows and headcounts.
Pearl Lemon delivered coffee for 40 guests at the Microsoft Experience Centre in London as a fully self-service set-up with no on-site staff, keeping the space clear for the client's own programme.
Guests served
On-site staff required
Self-service
Pearl Lemon delivered two separate services — a seated lunch and an afternoon tea — for 60 Amazon guests in one day, resetting the room between them in 45 minutes.
Guests across both services
Services in one day
Room turnaround
Pearl Lemon delivered a branded bubble tea drop-off to ITV for a fixed 11:45am arrival, giving a broadcast team a break that fitted the production schedule instead of interrupting it.
Fixed arrival time hit
Flavour range served
Pearl Lemon ran a Reddit team break using a hybrid model — some drinks premade for instant service, others prepared on site — so nobody queued and the experience still felt made-to-order.
Service models combined
Queue bottlenecks
Pearl Lemon turned a Centiva office into a proper drinks reception with passed canapés, beer and wine — a hosted service format rather than a buffet table.
Hosted service format
Drinks service delivered
Pearl Lemon delivered afternoon tea catering for Brompton, using a format that gives a workplace a sense of occasion without taking a full day out of the schedule.
Format delivered
Delivery setting
Pearl Lemon deployed two grill and serving staff to run a workplace BBQ, taking the cooking and service off the client's own team.
Grill and serving staff
Client staff working the event
Consumer-facing food and beverage concepts designed, staffed, trained and opened from zero. The same operating discipline a pop-up, stand or long-run activation needs.
Pearl Lemon took LeBell Cafe from an empty site to a trading coffee shop — concept, menu, equipment, staffing and launch delivered as one project.
Empty site to trading
End-to-end project team
Pearl Lemon built a specialist matcha tea shop concept from scratch, covering sourcing, menu development and crew training for a category most operators cannot staff.
Specialist concept built
Training programme created
Pearl Lemon built a boba and smoothie concept designed around peak-hour throughput — the same engineering that lets us serve 400 guests in a two-hour activation window.
Throughput-led design
Guests served at Wise using this model
Pearl Lemon consulted on Plant Sumo's plant-based menu and delivery operation, building category expertise that now underpins fully plant-based event catering.
Plant-based menu
Scale operating model
