DNC

About DNC

Welcome to our website, here's a snap shot of what we do. For more information, contact our sales teams about our retail product ranges or how we could help design a promotional product to your specification and budget.

Founded in 1999, DNC is a leading UK housewares company - we design, develop and distribute ranges of distinctive branded and licensed character products:

  • We're experts in - insulated lunch bags, picnic bags, backpacks, gymbags... Our Polar Gear brand is a market leading UK lunch and picnic brand. We've also made promotional bags for large UK retailers and manufacturers.
  • We're a leading licensee in lunch bag and stationery categories - we work with Disney, BBC, Mattel, Chapman Entertainment & Rachael Hale to name just a few!
  • We distribute fantastic, innovative housewares ranges for other manufacturers looking to develop a large market share in the UK. We've notched up more than 5 million unit sales for one of our partners.

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It's our goal to offer our retail customers exciting ranges with points of difference that keep consumers coming back for more! Here are just a few of the ways we've done this:

  • When we launched Polar Gear, we created a large new category - lunch bags and boxes aimed at older school children and adults - our sporty plain and decorated bags are seen in every primary school in the UK!
  • We were the first to introduce aluminium drinks bottles into the mass market.
  • In 2006 we took the UK retail market by storm with the UK's 1st Sound Chip Lunch Bag and this year we are pleased to offer yet another first with the Cyberman LED Lunch Bag.
  • Our product range is quite diverse, so we organise our Sales and Marketing teams into divisions:
    • Kids and Licensed character merchandise - lunch bags, school bags, stationery
    • Home and Leisure - picnic coolers, lunch coolers, ice packs, food storage, promotional cool bags, shopping bags
    • The Optima Company - a wholly owned subsidiary specialising in luxury picnic products for retail and promotional sale.