Spreadshirt


Spreadshirt is a German e-commerce print-on-demand company for clothing and accessories. It operates in Europe and North America. Customers can access products designed by others or create their own designs. It allows vendors to create shops. Spreadshirt owns and operates printing factories.

History

In May 2002, Spreadshirt was founded in Leipzig, Germany by Lukasz Gadowski and Matthias Spieß. The company is self-funded. Michael Peterson joined Spreadshirt as executive director in 2004.
In August 2007, Jana Eggers became CEO, replacing Gadowski, who is now Spreadshirt's President. In 2011, Phillip Rooke became CEO, replacing Jana Eggers.
Spreadshirt’s headquarters are in Leipzig, and it has branch offices in Berlin and Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Spreadshirt has printing factories in both the Pittsburgh suburb of Greensburg, Pennsylvania and Henderson, Nevada. In Europe, Spreadshirt has 3 printing factories: Leipzig, Legnica in Poland, and Krupka in the Czech Republic.
Spreadshirt manages the main Spreadshirt brand, its shop system Spreadshop, and the professional textile print service TeamShirts. It acquired the T-shirt design competition site laFraise in 2006 from Patrice Cassard, and integrated it into the main Spreadshirt brand.
Spreadshirt has e-commerce sites and marketing in 18 countries. 2017 sales were 106 million euros and they printed 4 million items. Each week, 30,000 new designs were submitted to the platform.

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