About Us
''The Bear Essentials for Media and Entertainment''
Known as the Polar Bears our company representatives work closely with suppliers, partners, and resellers to ensure the provision of the very best products and services to an ever-changing and growing industry. Some of these relationships have lasted 20+ years.
Our portfolio of products comprises of solutions to aid/develop any workflow from; Ingest to Store to Archive.
Further History
On Polar Graphics
Polar Graphics has been importing and distributing products for the film, TV and Multimedia industries for over 30 years - however, our history goes far beyond that. Many of you may recall Polar Video. You may even remember the notorious Polar/VME IBC parties at the Subterfuge club and Pink Coconut in Brighton. Well, Peter Rowsell, who is our MD and founding member of Polar Graphics, was a partner in Polar Video and largely responsible for those manic evenings.
Peter started his career at Eclair Debrie and Rank Film Equipment selling lighting, film cameras and then later moving into the fledgling video industry. Peter built upon his experiences in the film markets to establish a European network of resellers for Convergence Corp, who manufactured the first linear joystick operated editor in the world. Subsequently, he joined forces with Fred Smith to form Polar Video and established a worldwide distribution network for their products.
