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Trunki is a brand of ride-on hand luggage suitcase for children, designed by Rob Law. The product became well-known after featuring on the UK television series ''Dragons' Den'' in 2006. Trunki has won over 50 product and design awards, including several from ''Design Week'', ''Mother and Baby (magazine)'', ''D & AD'', children's retailer Right Start, ''Practical Parenting'' magazine and the Nick Jr. television channel. ==History== Magmatic, the company that manufactures the Trunki range, was formed on 5 May 2006. Inventor Rob Law MBE came to public attention in 2006 following an appearance on BBC2's ''Dragons' Den'' programme in which panellist, Theo Paphitis, tugged and broke the strap of a sample Trunki. Dragon Richard Farleigh then made an offer of £100,000 for 50% of the company, an offer which Law rejected. Between its formation and its sixth anniversary on 5 June 2012, Magmatic sold more than 1,300,000 Trunki suitcases in 1,564 stores in 62 countries, through retailers including John Lewis, Harrod's, and Next since 5 May 2006. More than 500 articles have appeared about the Trunki in the British media and several television programmes have since featured Rob Law, including ''Working Lunch'', ''Beat the Boss'', ''This Morning'' and ''GMTV''. In June 2011 the Trunki BoostApak was featured on BBC 1's ''The Apprentice''. It was taken to France for contestants to see and broke the record for boardroom orders with an order of €214,000. Following this, sales of the Trunki BoostApak quadrupled. On 30 August 2008, Duncan Bannatyne, a pannelist on ''Dragon's Den'', appeared on ITV's ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' and when asked by presenter Chris Tarrant "Is there a sort of classic of one you've missed?" replied, "There is one, a little suitcase on wheels... every time I go to an airport I see one or two of these of these... it's the only one we missed out on I think." Trunki is distributed in the Americas through a licensing deal with toy company Melissa and Doug, with manufacture in New Jersey. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trunki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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