# DTC World Repositions as a Creative Merchandise Company, Putting Campaign Objectives Before Product

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- Published: 2026-08-28T11:00:00+07:00
- Author: Media OutReach

#### _Singapore-headquartered company adopts a campaign-led model for consumer brands across Asia-Pacific, designing creative merchandise that consumers choose to keep._

SINGAPORE – [Media OutReach Newswire](https://www.media-outreach.com) – 28 August
2026 – [DTC World](https://dtcworld.com/) announced it has repositioned as a creative
merchandise company, formalising a campaign-led approach it has used with consumer
brands across Asia-Pacific. The change moves the company away from a product-first
approach, towards merchandise designed to influence consumer behaviour — encouraging
repeat purchase, product trial and participation — rather than merchandise distributed
as a giveaway.

 Under the repositioning, the company defines creative merchandise as branded product
designed to serve a specific marketing objective — repeat purchase, product trial,
advocacy or participation — with the objective decided before the product is chosen.
It contrasts this with merchandise selected from a catalogue and added to a campaign
after the fact.

 DTC World said the change responds to how merchandise is now bought. Merchandise
budgets increasingly sit inside campaign lines rather than procurement and are judged
on what they achieve rather than what they cost, which requires a different starting
point: not a product range, but the behaviour a brand needs from its shoppers.

 “Most merchandise is designed to be handed out. Very little of it is designed to
be kept,” said Jason Cheng, Managing Director of DTC World. “That is the standard
we work to. If a consumer would not choose to keep the merchandise after the campaign
ends, it was never going to do anything for the brand — and that is a design problem,
not a sourcing one.”

 One example of the approach is the company’s work with Ben & Jerry’s Singapore,
for which DTC World designed [four limited-edition socks inspired by the brand’s ice cream flavours](https://dtcworld.com/ice-cream-meets-fashion-ben-jerrys-custom-socks-boost-brand-love/).
Each pair was packaged in a miniature pint container and distributed across participating
retailers, produced as a collectible set rather than a single giveaway item, with
the packaging itself designed to be kept. The socks were fully redeemed, and the
company said the designs were widely shared on social media.

 Similar formats now run through much of the company’s campaign work: collectible
series, blind box drops, limited-edition releases and [licensed IP collaborations](https://dtcworld.com/licensed-character-merchandise/)
that give consumers a reason to return rather than a reason to accept a free item.

 DTC World said campaign merchandise now sits at the centre of its business: programmes
built around a defined marketing objective and judged on the consumer behaviour 
they move. The company continues to produce [corporate gifts](https://dtcworld.com/corporate-gifts/)
alongside this work, where the job is building relationships with a known audience
rather than moving behaviour at scale.

 “Consumers are getting more selective about what they keep, and that is raising
the bar on design,” Cheng said. “We expect demand to keep moving towards original
artwork, proprietary characters and culturally specific work — merchandise that 
could only have come from one brand.” 
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#### About DTC World

Founded in 2001, DTC World Corporation is a creative merchandise company headquartered
in Singapore, with operations in Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia
and China. The company designs and produces campaign merchandise, gift-with-purchase
premiums, licensed character merchandise and corporate gifts for consumer brands
across Asia-Pacific, working from a brand’s marketing objective rather than a product
catalogue.

 More information is available at [dtcworld.com](https://dtcworld.com/).

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