About Us
ABOUT THE BRAND
BLACK+BLUM designs products to transform everyday food and drink moments into extraordinary experiences, with a brand rooted in creativity, warmth, and timelessness. This website is operated by Sport Dinaco Inc., the authorized Canadian distributor of Black+Blum products. Sport Dinaco acts as the seller of record and handles payment processing, fulfillment, customer service, returns, and warranty claims.
This website is not owned or managed by Black+Blum Ltd. Our role is to provide Canadian customers and retailers with access to Black+Blum's products, along with local sales, support, and distribution services.
Since 1998 Black+Blum has been devoted to crafting timeless and creative designs that make every day special. Every product has been uniquely designed in our studio in London, considering each detail and material carefully for repeated lifelong use.
In 2014 co-founder Dan Black launched the company’s first lunch box and water bottle. Since then Black+Blum has been dedicated to solving the problems of food waste and single-use plastics by creating products that transform everyday food and drink moments into extraordinary experiences.
While we proudly distribute and support Black+Blum products, this website is not owned, operated, or managed by Black+Blum Ltd. All orders, customer service inquiries, and distribution activities related to this website are handled by Sport Dinaco Inc.
Our role is to provide Canadian customers and retailers with access to Black+Blum's innovative products, along with local sales, support, and distribution services.
For information about the Black+Blum brand and its global operations, please visit Black+Blum's official website.
“We design products to help people live better every day.”
— Dan Black, Co-founder and Lead Designer
OUR STORY
Dan Black, Co-founder and Lead Designer, was born in Yorkshire in 1974, into a family whose father and grandfather owned a footwear and bag manufacturing factory. He earned a First Class Honours degree in Industrial Design from Northumbria University in 1996 — the same school attended by designer Jony Ive — interning at IDEO in London and Frog Design in California along the way. In 1998 he co-founded Black+Blum with fellow Northumbria graduate and Swiss designer Martin Blum; the company's name comes from “Blum,” pronounced like the English word “bloom” and meaning “flower” in Swiss/German.
OUR SUSTAINABILITY COMMITMENT
Black+Blum is a member of 1% for the Planet and donates at least 1% of every order's value to food waste charities, an issue the company notes is responsible for 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The brand partners with City Harvest, a UK food redistribution charity that collects surplus food from supply-chain partners and redistributes it to more than 375 community partners (food banks, schools, hostels, soup kitchens). For 2025, the Canadian program page reports 1,135 kg of surplus food rescued, 2,610 meals delivered to those in need, and 2,838 kg of greenhouse gas emissions prevented.
2000-2009
Black+Blum started out as a design consultancy before shifting to product design. Its first lighting range, launched in 2000, was a big success. The company entered the homeware market in 2002 with award-winning products: the 'James' doorstop/bookend/magnetic bottle-opener keyring, the 'Flik' waiter's-friend corkscrew, and the 'Loo Read' loo-roll holder and magazine rack, followed by the sculptural 'Loop' range (candelabras, fruit bowls, vases). The company later launched fans ('Propello', 'Venti'), the 'Hot Pot' barbecue disguised as a plant pot, and space-saving kitchen products like the folding 'High & Dry' dishrack and the 'Forminimal' knife holder and chopping board.
2010-2011
In 2010, Black+Blum launched its lunch box category: 'Box Appetit' (inspired by Japanese bento boxes, designed for Western cuisine), the 'Lunch Pot', the 'Bento Box', and the natural-charcoal filter bottle 'Eau Good'. In 2014, Dan Black took over leadership of the company, pivoting its focus to sustainability-driven products, an approach that has since gained global recognition.
TODAY
Black+Blum has won more than 25 international design awards and sells its products in over 60 countries and 1,000 stores, claiming innovations such as the first adult lunch box designed for Western food and the first natural charcoal on-the-go filter stick.