01The company
What Mancro is
A maker of soft cases, on the market since 2012, with six collections that grew one problem at a time.
Most people meet the brand through one piece: a grey work backpack with three dials on the main zip and a socket on the side panel. It is the piece with the largest rating pool in the catalog, and it is roughly a sixth of what the workroom makes.
The rest of the range is shaped by the same habit: take one awkward thing somebody carries every week, and build the case around that thing rather than around a shape. A feed that has to stay cold between a pump and a daycare fridge. A shelf of prescription bottles that has to travel to a hospital appointment and come home again. A styler that is still warm ten minutes before a taxi. A suit that has to arrive without a crease down the lapel. A dog’s week in a car. Six collections, and each one starts from a measurement somebody took.
Since 2012
The date on the company is 2012, which makes it fourteen years of soft cases. It is the one fact about the company you could go and verify, and the rest of what these pages carry is numbers you can hold a tape measure against: inches of sleeve, ounces of bottle, the height a lid closes on.
What the fourteen years show up as is narrower than a story: the same laptop sleeve dimension across two generations of the work packs, insulated pockets that moved from the inside of a diaper bag to the outside once enough people said they were opening the bag one-handed, and a lock loop that appeared on the medicine bags after the first ones shipped without one.
What a Mancro bag is made of
The shells are high-density polyester with a water-resistant coating and reinforced stitching at the stress points: the honest description is rain on a walk from a parking lot, not a dry bag for a canoe. Cooler and bottle bags are lined with foil-faced insulation that wipes out with a cloth. The hair tool cases carry a heat-resistant lining and, on two of them, a separate mat for a barrel that has not finished cooling.
Where a piece has a lock, it is three dials on a zip pull or a loop for a padlock you supply. Where a piece has a charging port, it is a socket and a threaded cable, and the battery is yours. Both of those sentences appear on the product cards for the same reason they appear here: a promise that has to be walked back is worse than a smaller promise kept.
Who buys from this catalog
Commuters who want a laptop to come out at a security line without the rest of the bag following it. Parents in the first year, then the same parents in the second year, buying a smaller bag. Nurses doing home visits, who need a flat bag that opens on a kitchen table. Stylists who carry tools to other people’s houses. People with a shelf of medicine and a grandchild who visits.
None of that is a market segment. It is the list of reasons people write to us, and it is why the collections are organized by the job rather than by the shape of the bag.
Prices, and how often they move
Every figure here comes from our own catalog data, and the whole catalog is refreshed on a schedule. The date of the last refresh, and what exactly gets refreshed, sit on our updates page. Where a price at the till differs from the price here, the till is right.
02About the company
Mancro: the short answers
What people search for when they type the name Mancro on its own.
What is Mancro?
A maker of soft cases, on the market since 2012. The range covers work backpacks with a lock and a charging port, diaper bags and insulated bottle coolers, lockable medicine organizers, hair tool cases, garment bags and covers for the car and the boat.
How long has Mancro been around?
Since 2012: fourteen years at the time of writing. That date is the only thing this site claims about the company that you could go and check, and everything else on these pages is about the bags.
Does Mancro sell directly from this website?
No. This is the catalog: every size, color and price in one place, with a button on each piece that opens our retail partner. The order, the payment and the return happen there.
One more thing
Every size, color and capacity in the Mancro selection sits behind this button.