About us

Welcome to DCS Central distribution.

DCS are the initials of British entrepreneur Denys C. Shortt.

DCS Central was created in 1998 and has been distributing Health & Beauty Products ever since.

Denys Shortt is very focussed on ensuring that DCS is an eco-friendly business with strong values.

DCS Central focuses on helping the environment.

Denys CORE PURPOSE is :

"to create businesses of excellence focussed on customer needs."

DCS is the UK's largest privately owned health, beauty and household brands distributor with sales of over £120 million (gbp) and is part of the DCS Europe group of companies.

We have grown our business by providing excellent customer service and a range of superb added value services.

We added £20 million to our sales last year with great ideas such as POUNDZONE - our "pound shop in a box" concept.

DCS are official distributors for the leading UK brands - Procter & Gamble, Gillette, Unilever, Colgate, SC Johnson, PZ Cussons, Sara Lee, L'Oreal, Reckitt Benkiser, Alberto Culver, Jeyes and Schwarzkopf.

All our products are EU products sourced from the brand owners. We do not import any brands from outside the EU.

Operating from our state-of-the-art 280,000 sq ft Distribution Centre at Stratford-upon-Avon we supply over 10 million cases a year.

Our regular service levels of 99%+ are industry leading and we pride ourselves on this.


DCS Truck	DCS Reception	Large storage	20,000 pallets	Order collation