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MP Consulting Acquires the Assets of Pluie, Inc., Maker of the World’s First Self-Sanitizing Diaper Changing Table.
The acquisition returns the award-winning family-care brand to its original design and manufacturing partner, positioning Pluie for its next stage of growth.
CHICAGO & DALLAS — MP Consulting (MPC), an Illinois-based product design and development firm, today announced it has acquired the assets of Pluie, the company behind the world’s first self-sanitizing diaper changing table and a portfolio of family-focused products. The acquisition includes the Pluie brand, intellectual property, product portfolio, and customer relationships. Pluie’s founder, Addie Gundry and Co-Founder Brittany Hizer will remain involved through the transition to ensure continuity for customers and partners, and will continue to support the brand in a consulting capacity.
Every parent knows the moment. You’re out in the world with your baby, a diaper needs changing, and the changing table in front of you makes you wince. Pluie was founded in 2020 to make that moment better for every family, everywhere. The company’s flagship changing table features a patented UV-C sanitizing system that eliminates 99.9% of germs on the changing surface after every use, along with design details built around what caregivers actually need. The founders’ belief was simple: families deserve dignity in public spaces.
In six years, that belief became a category. Pluie appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank, earned a place on TIME’s Best Inventions list, and built commercial relationships with CVS Pharmacy, Simon Property Group, Graduate Hotels, and franchise groups of Texas Roadhouse and Culver’s, among others. The brand also grew beyond the wall. With the Pret, its portable changing clutch, Pluie brought clean, dignified diaper changes to wherever parenthood happens: the park, the plane, the back seat.
For Pluie, the acquisition is a homecoming. MPC and its principal, Mitul Patel, was Pluie’s original design partner and first manufacturer, working alongside Gundry and Hizer from the very first prototype. Few acquirers in any industry know their product the way MPC knows Pluie, right down to the molds it was born from.
“We are so proud of what Pluie has become. We took an idea that didn’t exist — a self-sanitizing changing table — and put it in front of millions of families through some of the biggest names in American retail and hospitality,” said Addie Gundry, Founder of Pluie. “This acquisition is the outcome you dream about as a founder: our product, our brand, and our mission moving into the hands of the team that helped us build it from the very first prototype. Mitul and his team can take Pluie further and faster than anyone, and Brittany and I will be right there supporting the transition every step of the way.”
Under MPC’s ownership, the Pluie brand, product line, and existing customer and partner relationships will continue without interruption. MPC’s in-house engineering and manufacturing resources are expected to accelerate production, expand the commercial footprint, and grow the consumer portfolio, beginning with Pret and extending into new products built on the same idea Pluie was founded on: parenting out in the world should be easier, cleaner, and kinder. Gundry and Hizer will support the transition in a consulting capacity, continuing a collaboration with Patel that has spanned the life of the company.
“We believed in Pluie from the beginning as their design and manufacturing partner,” said Mitul Patel, CEO, MP Consulting. “This is a category-defining product with proven demand from some of the most recognizable names in retail, real estate, and hospitality, and with Pret, a consumer brand parents genuinely love. With our engineering and manufacturing capabilities behind it, we can deliver Pluie tables at greater scale and lower cost, grow the consumer line, and bring self-sanitizing changing solutions to far more families. Addie and Brittany built something remarkable, and we intend to build on it.”
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Pluie is the maker of the world’s first self-sanitizing diaper changing table, designed to give families a cleaner, safer, and more dignified experience in public spaces. Pluie’s patented UV-C technology sanitizes the changing surface after every use, eliminating 99.9% of germs. Pluie tables are installed in retail, dining, hospitality, and commercial locations nationwide, and the Pluie Pret brings the brand’s promise of clean, easy changes to families on the go. Learn more at hellopluie.com.
MPC is a product design and development firm based in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, with more than 100 employees and affiliated manufacturing capabilities through A Making Company, LLC. MPC partners with companies to design, engineer, and manufacture innovative products from concept through production. Learn more at www.mpconsulting.com.
