Since 1996, Bizrate has been committed to amassing the web’s product and retailer information from the biggest names you know to the small but trustworthy shops just waiting to be found. With bizrate, shoppers can find the right product at the right price, every time.

Established in 2003, Taobao is China’s largest Internet retail platform , taking up about three-fourths of the market share, according to domestic research firm iResearch. Platforms within Taobao also include Alibaba (www.alibaba.com), an online advertising exchange and affiliate network for hundreds of thousands of publishers in China, and Koubei.com (www.koubei.com), China’s leading classified listing website.

Printfection users can open a free online store into which they upload graphics and designs for on demand printing onto t-shirts and other goods. Products are created by the users and categorized and displayed in a fully user customizable storefront. Users make commission by adding a mark up to a standard base price. On successfully selling products, commission payments to users of the service are made on a monthly basis, or alternately, commission can be used to purchase products from Printfection.

Founded in 2004 by Casey Schorr and Kevin Materi, while still at the University of Denver, Printfection currently has over 2.7 million products for sale through over 80,000 custom online store fronts. Schorr has been highlighted as one of Denver’s most successful young entrepreneurs.

Other Information

• Type : Private
• Founded : Denver, Colorado, United States
• Headquarters : Denver, Colorado, United States, USA
• Key people
  • Casey Schorr – Co-Founder
  • Kevin Materi – Co-Founder
• Industry : Custom products
• Products : Electronic commerce, Shopping mall

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.

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,[2] and the professional textile print service 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
Europe’s 500 2006
Red Herring 100 Europe Award 2006
Founder Champion 2005
German Founders Prize 2005
HP Business Innovation Award 2004
Future Sax 2002

Other Information

• Type : Public
• Industry : Social Commerce, Personal Branding
• Founded : Leipzig, Germany (2001, as Spreadshirt)
• Headquarters : 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
• Products : Creative Apparel