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About Spreadshirt:

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.

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

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