MP Consulting Acquires Self-Sanitizing Solution

MP Consulting (MPC), an Illinois-based product design and development firm, announced it has acquired the assets of Pluie, the company behind the world’s first self-sanitizing diaper changing table. 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 throughout the transition to ensure continuity for customers and partners, and will go on to support the brand in a consulting capacity.

Founded in 2020, Pluie evolved from the desire to provide families dignity in public spaces. The company's flagship changing table features a patented UV-C sanitizing system that eliminates 99.9 percent of germs on the changing surface after every use. It has received recognition from its start, appearing on ABC's Shark Tank, and has grown to earn a place on TIME's Best Inventions list. Throughout the years, Pluie has built commercial relationships with CVS Pharmacy, Simon Property Group, Graduate Hotels, and franchise groups of Texas Roadhouse and Culver's, among others.

"We are so proud of what Pluie has become," says Addie Gundry, Founder of Pluie. "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."

For Pluie, this acquisition is a homecoming. MPC and its Principal, Mitual Patel, was Pluie's original design partner and first manufacturer, working alongside Gundry and Hizer from the very first prototype.

"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," adds Gundry. "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. Gundry and Hizer will support the transition in a consulting capacity, keeping the original philosophy that parenting out in the world should be easier, cleaner, and kinder.

“We believed in Pluie from the beginning as their design and manufacturing partner,” says Mitul Patel, CEO, MP Consulting. “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."