Spreadshirt

Infobox Company
company_name=Spreadshirt Inc.
company_logo=
company_type=Public
foundation= Leipzig, Germany (2001, as Spreadshirt)
location_city= Karl-Heine-Str. 97, Leipzig, Germany
key_people=Jana Eggers, CEO
Lukasz Gadowski, Founder
Matthias Spieß, Co-Founder
Rezzo Schlauch, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
industry=Social Commerce Personal Branding
products= Creative Apparel
num_employees= >250 (November 1 2007)
homepage = [http://www.spreadshirt.com/ Spreadshirt.com]

Spreadshirt is a German company offering an online platform for private individuals and commercial organizations to design, buy and sell creative and personalized apparel.

History

In 2001, Spreadshirt was founded in Leipzig (Germany) by Lukasz Gadowski and Matthias Spieß without the use of external capital.Michael Peterson, another executive director, joined Spreadshirt in 2004.In August 2007, Jana Eggers became CEO replacing Gadowski who is now Spreadshirt's President [" [http://www.spreadshirt.com/us/US/About-us/Overview-2525/newsId/28 Spreadshirt's Gadowski Passes CEO Baton to Eggers] "] .

While maintaining its headquarters in Leipzig, Spreadshirt has opened up branch offices in Berlin, Germany; Paris, France; the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands; and Greensburg, Pennsylvania and Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.

Company brands

Spreadshirt manages several brands, including the main Spreadshirt brand, the T-shirt design competition site laFraise, which it acquired in 2006 from Patrice Cassard, [cite web |url=http://www.lafraise.com/blog/2006/07/ma_retraite_35.php |title=Ma retraite à 35 ans! |accessdate=2007-11-14 |last=Cassard |first=Patrice |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2007-07-19 |work= |publisher=laFraise |language=fr icon |doi= |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060902183347/http://www.lafraise.com/blog/2006/07/ma_retraite_35.php |archivedate=2007-09-02 |quote= ] and the professional textile print service [http://www.ddstextile.com/?lang=en DDS Deutsche Druckservice] .

Facts and figures

*300,000 internet users - from private individuals, companies, organizations, sports teams to bands and artists - have become Spreadshirt shop partners
*Each week, 30,000 new designs are submitted to the Spreadshirt platform

Awards

* Online-Star 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year: Lukasz Gadowski [" [http://www.onlinestar.de/fileadmin/media/images/Pressedownloads/Pressemitteilung_OnlineStar_2006_Gewinner.pdf Online-Star 2006: Pressemitteilung] "]
* Europe's 500 2006 [http://www.europes500.com/pdf/Europes500%20listing%20Web.pdf]
* Red Herring 100 Europe Award 2006 [" [http://www.redherring.com/Home/16775 Red Herring 100 Awards] "]
* Founder Champion 2005
* German Founders Prize 2005
* HP Business Innovation Award 2004
* Future Sax 2002

References

See also

* Online shopping
* Self-publishing
* CafePress

External links

* [http://www.spreadshirt.com Spreadshirt.com]
* [http://www.spreadshirt.net Spreadshirt.net]
* [http://hive.spreadshirt.net Spreadshirt Hive (Blog-Aggregator)]
* [http://spreadlog.net Lukasz Gadowskis Blog]
* [http://www.lifeonashirt.com Jana Eggers CEO-Blog]