Ruth Stanley

DCS Group (UK) Ltd

DCS GROUP UK is the official distributor for P&G, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, J&J, SC Johnson, PZ Cussons, Coty, Grenade and many more household names. A UK Top 250 privately owned company, founded by Denys C Shortt OBE in 1994, DCS now has annual sales of more than £250m and employs 600 people. 30+ years of successive growth has pushed DCS to expand in size and this has been facilitated by the recent purchase and move to a 25-acre site in Banbury. Since its founding, the company has sold over £2 billion in health and beauty products including £15m in sales of Enliven. Enliven, DCS' own brand, is produced in-house at the DCS Manufacturing site in Redditch. In addition to this, DCS Manufacturing works with internationally recognised brands and retailers to develop, manufacture and launch Health & Beauty products. The state-of-the-art 100,000-square-foot production facility in Worcestershire is at the centre of our operations. Denys Shortt also owns the Enable platform which provides retro and rebate management software to a multitude of blue-chip companies worldwide https://enable.com. Denys Shortt, founder and Chairman, is a former England hockey player with an unerring enthusiasm for the Midlands region. He served as the former Chairman of the Coventry & Warwickshire LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership) and has supported many organisations including the Shakespeare Hospice, Stratford-upon-Avon Football Club, and as Chair of the Stratford Hospital Appeal which has raised over £1m. In recognition of his efforts as LEP Chairman, Denys was awarded an OBE in 2013 for Services to the Economy.