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.

Spreadshirt GmbH
Private
IndustryCustomized apparel and accessories
FoundedMay 2002 (2002-05) (as Spreadshirt)
Leipzig, Germany
FoundersLukasz Gadowski
Matthias Spieß
Headquarters
Gießerstr. 27, Leipzig, Germany
Key people
Phillip Rooke, CEO
ezzo Schlauch, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
ServicesScreen Printing, Digital Printing, Flock Printing, Flex Printing, Digital Transfer, Vinyl Printing, Thermal Sublimation
RevenueUS$120 million (global revenue)[1]
Number of employees
500+ (January 21, 2019)
WebsiteSpreadshirt.com, Spreadshirt.co.uk

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.[2] In 2011, Phillip Rooke became CEO, replacing Jana Eggers.[3]

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[4] 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.[5] It acquired the T-shirt design competition site laFraise in 2006 from Patrice Cassard,[6] 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.

Awards
  • Online-Star 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year: Lukasz Gadowski[7]
  • Europe's 500 2006[8]
  • Red Herring 100 Europe Award 2006[9]

See also

References
  1. https://www.spreadshirt.com/newsroom/facts-figures/
  2. Spreadshirt's Gadowski Passes CEO Baton to Eggers
  3. Spreadshirt Appoints Phillip Rooke CEO
  4. "Hiring, business rise at Greensburg plant of T-shirt firm".
  5. https://www.spreadshirt.com/newsroom/facts-figures/
  6. Cassard, Patrice (2007-07-19). "Ma retraite à 35 ans!" (in French). laFraise. Archived from the original on 2006-09-02. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
  7. Online-Star 2006: Pressemitteilung Archived 2007-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
  8. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20081203111848/http://www.europes500.com/pdf/Europes500%20listing%20Web.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2008. Retrieved November 13, 2007. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. Red Herring 100 Awards Archived October 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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