London, 26 April 2012, Online clothing-commerce platform, Spreadshirt, enabled Fleet Street Fox to react quickly to events yesterday, when Dennis Skinner MP suggested at Prime Minister Questions that, “when posh boys are in trouble they sack the servants”. The slogan was on t-shirts on the site by late afternoon. The jibe harks back to a pre-election Guardian competition featuring the Step Outside Posh Boy poster.

Spreadshirt’s customised-clothing and print-on-demand technology means that its shop partners and brands can keep their sites fresh and topical, by quickly uploading new designs, encouraging fans and advocates to visit.

In late March, Spreadshirt UK shop partners responded with humour to #pastygate, adapting the Keep Calm And Carry On design to combine the pasty, petrol and stamp stories: http://pasty.spreadshirt.co.uk/

Notes to Editors
Spreadshirt has recently announced profitable 2011 revenue growth of 43% globally and 20% in the UK. This exceeds the UK internet economy growth rate of 10.9%, outlined by the Boston Consulting Group in a recent report. Global revenue was 45.8m EUR in 2011 and Spreadshirt expects revenues to reach 64m EUR in 2012.

Images are available via:
Spreadshirt Press Room: http://blog.spreadshirt.net/press-eu/about-spreadshirt/
Cision/Spreadshirt Press Room: http://www.cisionwire.com/spreadshirt

London, 23 April 2012, Global clothing-commerce platform Spreadshirt has today opened its Royalist vs. Republican Diamond Jubilee souvenir competition on its Facebook page. Spreadshirt shop partners from across Europe and the USA have been entering designs since Easter, to celebrate (or not!) the 60 year reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Spreadshirt and Jubilee fans are encouraged to share and like the designs via the social network and Spreadshirt will count the likes to determine the winning design.

Designs include variations on British stamps, punk images of the Queen and plenty of quirky diamonds and crowns. http://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/diamond+jubilee

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Spreadshirt’s personalisation platform means that all the designs can be added to t-shirts, hoodies, aprons, even babygrows via the Spreadshirt Facebook page. Designers and customers can choose a ready-made design from the Spreadshirt marketplace or create their own Jubilee souvenir in time for the June festivities.

Design guru Karl Lagerfeld is set to join the celebrations for the Jubilee by offering live commentary of the event on French television. And London’s luxury department stores including Harrods and Harvey Nichols are embracing the celebrations by giving their respective windows a patriotic makeover.

Notes to Editors
Last delivery day for the UK is 22nd May 2012

Spreadshirt has recently announced profitable 2011 revenue growth of 43% globally and 20% in the UK. This exceeds the UK internet economy growth rate of 10.9%, outlined by the Boston Consulting Group in a recent report. Global revenue was 45.8m EUR in 2011 and Spreadshirt expects revenues to reach 64m EUR in 2012.

Photography is available via:

• Spreadshirt Press Room: http://blog.spreadshirt.net/press-eu/about-spreadshirt/
• Spreadshirt Flickr set ‘Jubilee’: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spreadshirt/sets/72157629882240475/
• Cision/Spreadshirt Press Room: http://www.cisionwire.com/spreadshirt

London, 17 April 2012, London elects its mayor on 3 May and 11 other UK cities vote in mayoral referendums. So customisable-clothing platform Spreadshirt asks city-dwellers what they would do, if they were Mayor? From the quirky to the straight-forward, ideas in the Spreadshirt Shop currently include:

• If I Were Mayor there’d be a banker tax
• If I Were Mayor South London would be independent
• If I Were Mayor I’d say no to Heathrow 3
• If I Were Mayor there’d be slides on the Tube
• If I Were Mayor #riotwombles would get a medal

The Spreadshirt platform means users can customise the standard slogan or choose a ready-made design to voice their opinions in the run-up to polling day. Slogans can then be personalised on a t-shirt, hoody, canvas bag, apron or even babygrow, in a style, size and colour to suit the wearer.

Spreadshirt has recently announced profitable 2011 revenue growth of 43% globally and 20% in the UK. This exceeds the UK internet economy growth rate of 10.9%, outlined by the Boston Consulting Group in a recent report. Global revenue was 45.8m EUR in 2011 and Spreadshirt expects revenues to reach 64m EUR in 2012.

Notes to Editors

Mayor Elections
London will vote for its mayor on 3 May and 11 cities, including Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield, will hold referendums on the adoption of directly elected mayors.

Spreadshirt

More Information
Spreadshirt Press Room / http://blog.spreadshirt.net/press-eu/about-spreadshirt/
Pictures on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/spreadshirt/sets/72157629463819906/

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• 43% year-on-year revenue growth globally; 26% in Europe, 109% in North America
• Global revenue up from €32.0m in 2010 to €45.8m in 2011
• European revenue up from €24.9m in 2010 to €32.3m in 2011
• UK market revenue grows 20%
• Second North American factory to open in Las Vegas
• Surpasses UK internet economy growth rate, put at 10.9% (Boston Consulting Group)

London, 29 March 2012, Spreadshirt (www.spreadshirt.co.uk), the global, clothing-commerce platform, experienced profitable growth across all business units in 2011 with 43% revenue growth year-on-year. Revenue is anticipated to reach EUR 64m in 2012 and a second North American factory will open in Las Vegas.

Philip Rooke, CEO at Spreadshirt explains, “The Spreadshirt platform is an exciting concept that changes the clothing market for consumers and businesses.  Our 2011 figures reflect the increasing success of our role in e-commerce and customisation. Consumer involvement in content creation and the impact of gamification, means consumers now expect high levels of participation and response from brands. Our easy-to-use technology makes Spreadshirt well-placed to capitalise on these trends through 2012, especially in the UK”.

Spreadshirt’s UK growth has exceeded the rate outlined by the Boston Consulting Group in a recent report entitled The $4.2 Trillion Opportunity: The Internet Economy in the G-20. It puts the UK’s internet economy growth rate at 10.9% and predicts that by 2016 it will grow to £255 billion, when BCG also expects to see 3 billion internet users globally—almost half the world’s population.

Spreadshirt expects to expand into countries such as Brazil and Turkey in 2012. According to the Boston Consulting Group’s report, developing G-20 countries have 800 million internet users, more than all the developed G-20 countries combined.

Additional BCG report information available at:

Boston Consulting Group website
Wall Street Journal

London–08 March 2012–Spreadshirt (www.spreadshirt.co.uk), the leading multi-channel clothing commerce platform today announces its latest shop partner, Cosmopolitan magazine. The UK edition of the iconic, award-winning title is celebrating its landmark40th Birthday this year and as part of the celebrations is using the print-on-demand platform to produce a range of classic t-shirts and stylish totes, featuring some of its most iconic covers.

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Cosmopolitan, which launched in the UK in April 1972, is the world’s biggest-selling magazine. Its pages are full with the latest fashion trends, beauty news, relationship advice and celebrity gossip.

The collectible range which is available for sale via http://cosmopolitan.spreadshirt.co.uk/ features some of the world’s most recognisable faces of the past forty years. Loyal readers can choose from 40 different designs in a wide selection of colours and sizes. Further details are available inside the April issue currently out on sale.

Philip Rooke, CEO at Spreadshirt says “We are thrilled to be working with Cosmopolitan on these vintage designs. Cosmopolitan readers love the magazine and its history. It is a leading brand we all grew up with and Spreadshirt’s technology means that the readers can choose an offering tailored specifically to their needs, that they will enjoy wearing and demonstrate themselves to be brand champions.”

About Spreadshirt
Spreadshirt is the leading multi-channel clothing commerce platform for creating, buying and selling personalised apparel. For the more than 40,000 active online shops selling around the world in 2011, the Spreadshirt c-commerce platform offers a flexible, risk-free, print-on-demand approach. Spreadshirt’s fulfilment service handles everything from production and payment to shipping (within 3-5 days in the UK) and customer service.

The platform provides multiple channels to bring customers’ ideas to life on clothing. These channels include 3rd party e-commerce marketplaces like Amazon, white label and social media shops, and countless other applications using Spreadshirt’s API.

Founded in 2002 in Leipzig Germany, Spreadshirt is a global company with Headquarters in Germany and the United States and factories in North America, Germany and Poland to allow rapid delivery to customers. For additional information, visit Spreadshirt on Twitter, Flickr or Facebook.

About Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan is the world’s biggest-selling magazine. Published in the UK by Hearst Magazines UK, Cosmopolitan is the country’s most-read young women’s magazine with more than 1.6m readers. The magazine, edited by Louise Court, has a circulation of 377,580*. Its website, cosmopolitan.co.uk, has more than 1m uniques per month and the brand is consistently ranked as the UK’s number 1 top grossing brand in the Apple Newsstand for iPhone sales. In 2011, Cosmopolitan won the PPA’s Consumer Media Brand of the Year and the BSME’s Innovation/Brand Building Initiative of the Year for its Cosmo on Campus student magazine.

For more information about Spreadshirt, please contact PR Savvy
Mayra Cunningham / mayra.cunningham@prsavvy.co.uk / 078 2525 1615
Kate Warwick / kate.warwick@prsavvy.co.uk / 078 1069 7282

The Big Egg hunt, which launches on Shrove Tuesday in London, will be the most astounding and exhilarating egg hunt the city has ever seen. London streets will become a thrilling adventure and a world of inspiration holding secret treasures for people to discover and experience.

Elephant Family and Action for Children are two innovative charities with boundless passion and vision who both like to think big. It is this shared approach that has brought the two charities together to create The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt to raise vital funds. Eggs are a universally recognised symbol of new life, a fresh start and hope for the future – the bedrock of both the charities’ missions.

The range of clothing to support the Big Egg Hunt is now available for sale via http://thebigegghunt.spreadshirt.co.uk/ where supporters of the charities can shop over 200 different designs for men, women and children.

Philip Rooke, CEO at Spreadshirt says “We are pleased to be working with The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt to support these important charities. By putting their message on to our quality clothing, pro-active not-for-profit organisations can successfully get their message out to many different spaces, which may be difficult to reach with traditional promotional methods.”

The Spreadshirt online custom clothing platform offers limited initial investment risk for its shop partners, whilst the speed at which a design idea can be for sale, the quality of the clothing and accessories and quick delivery times ensure a customer-friendly experience. Spreadshirt shop-partners can quickly and easily open their own custom (white label) online shop as a seamless extension to their websites. Spreadshirt in turn, handles all the stocking, online orders, payments, delivery (within 3-5 days in the UK) and returns, leaving shop partners to focus solely on their main activity and promoting their shops.

About the Charities
Elephant Family is working to save the endangered animals in the wild from extinction through conservation projects. Action for Children supports and speaks out for the most vulnerable and neglected children and young people, for as long as it takes to make a difference in their lives

About Spreadshirt
Spreadshirt is the leading multi-channel clothing commerce platform for creating, buying and selling personalised apparel. For the more than 40,000 active online shops selling around the world in 2011, the Spreadshirt c-commerce platform offers a flexible, risk-free, print-on-demand approach. Spreadshirt’s fulfilment service handles everything from production and payment to shipping (within 3-5 days in the UK) and customer service.

The platform provides multiple channels to bring customers’ ideas to life on clothing. These channels include 3rd party e-commerce marketplaces like Amazon, white label and social media shops, and countless other applications using Spreadshirt’s API.

Founded in 2002 in Leipzig Germany, Spreadshirt is a global company with Headquarters in Germany and the United States and factories in North America, Germany and Poland to allow rapid delivery to customers. For additional information, visit Spreadshirt on Twitter, Flickr or Facebook.

For more information about Spreadshirt, please contact PR Savvy

Mayra Cunningham / mayra.cunningham@prsavvy.co.uk / 078 2525 1615
Kate Warwick / kate.warwick@prsavvy.co.uk / 078 1069 7282

London, 14 February 2012. February 14 has arrived again; a day to confess your love and pay lip service to the one you love. We at Spreadshirt had a closer look at over 6.7 million search requests on our t-shirt platform, and this is what we wanted to know:


Do European, American and British men stand by their women, and vice versa? And which terms of endearment did people confess to be using?

It was to be expected and probably comes as little surprise that men are not doing quite as well as women when it comes to declaring their love in public. Our best-selling “I heart” t-shirts alone were sought for some 30,000 times last year and printed 20,000 times, but their potential is still not quite exploited when it comes to paying lip service to your loved ones:

• London, New York and Paris are the leading towns in our “I heart” statistics.
• In 8th position we find “I heart my boyfriend”.
• The corresponding “I heart my girlfriend” received almost exactly 50% less search results.
• In Britain and Germany, 1 in 100 “I heart” t-shirts said that “my girlfriend loves me” – error of judgement or sound rating?
• American men seem to be more awake (or loyal?) to their loved ones, because just as many men as women declare their love to each other on their t-shirts in the USA.

You could not think of a nicer way to confess your love than to use terms of endear-ment, right? A German newspaper found out that “precious” is the term most Germans use to refer to their Ingrid or Herrmann, and this is also confirmed by an 80% ratio on Spreadshirt’s t-shirt prints. “Cutie” finished a distant second, and quite a number of animal names were also very popular, probably thanks to their double meanings in German. Americans and Brits are not too fond of animal names, so we find that those German animalistic nicknames have revealed yet another beastly phenomenon of the German psyche. In Britain and America it’s all “honey”, and that didn’t come as much as a surprise either.


A final word on Valentine’s Day – we think that for every romantic woman out there, every unromantic man should make an exception (even if it’s only for a day). Come on lads, just think what mountains you could move by wearing an “I heart my girlfriend” t-shirt!!!

With over 17 million Facebook fans, the original Mr Bean series starring Rowan Atkinson has become known all over the world. Mr Bean first aired in 1990 and there were only 14 episodes ever made. The series has been sold to 245 territories worldwide and is winner of an International Emmy and the Golden Rose of Montreux.

The range of clothing is now available for sale via the Mr Bean Facebook page (www.facebook.com/mrbean) where devoted fans of the show can get their official merchandise. Fans of the show will also be able to customise their shirt in the design, colour, style and size of their choosing.

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Philip Rooke, CEO at Spreadshirt says “We are pleased to be working with Zodiak Rights on this clothing licensing deal for Mr Bean. The Spreadshirt online platform means that Zodiak Rights are able to offer fans of the cult series a much wider choice of products featuring the much loved odd-ball without the usual risks for license holders of having to buy and store large stocks.”

About Spreadshirt:

Spreadshirt is the leading multi-channel clothing commerce platform for creating, buying and selling personalised apparel. For the more than 35,000 active online shops selling around the world in 2010, the Spreadshirt c-commerce platform offers a flexible, risk-free, print-on-demand approach. Spreadshirt’s fulfilment service handles everything from production and payment to shipping (within 3-5 days in the UK) and customer service.

The platform provides multiple channels to bring customers’ ideas to life on clothing. These channels include 3rd party e-commerce marketplaces like Amazon, white label and social media shops, and countless other applications using Spreadshirt’s API.

Founded in 2002 in Leipzig Germany, Spreadshirt is a global company with Headquarters in Germany and the United States and factories in North America, Germany and Poland to allow rapid delivery to customers. For additional information, visit Spreadshirt on Twitter, Flickr or Facebook.

The online e-commerce platform experienced profitable growth across all business units in 2011, with the increase in revenue primarily driven by developments in the North American market. Demand in this market has been growing rapidly that sales rose 129% last month despite reduced marketing. In addition to its factory in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, the company now expects to open its second US factory in the summer of 2012.

European markets also showed strong December results with an average 52% growth in the EU market as a whole, with France at 89% proving to be the fastest growing European country.

Philip Rooke, CEO, explains “In Europe we are the market leading platform for print on demand customisable clothing. More and more businesses and brands are learnng how to utilise the Spreadshirt platfrom to monitise their brands. At the same time consumers’ increasing understanding of what our platform can offer especially discovering that a customised piece of clothing makes a great gift at a very reasonable price!” Mr Rooke adds “Although these numbers are for December alone, they mirror Spreadshirt’s remarkable Q4 results and looks like 2012 is progressing at the same speed and success.”

With currently more than 350 employees worldwide, Spreadshirt has continued to strengthen its team. The departments Customer Service, Online Marketing and IT, in particular saw considerable reinforcement in 2011.

About Spreadshirt

Spreadshirt is the leading multi-channel clothing commerce platform for creating, buying and selling personalised apparel. For the more than 35,000 active online shops selling around the world in 2010, the Spreadshirt c-commerce platform offers a flexible, risk-free, print-on-demand approach. Spreadshirt’s fulfillment service handles everything from production and payment to shipping and customer service.

The platform provides multiple channels to bring customers’ ideas to life on clothing. These channels include 3rd party e-commerce marketplaces like Amazon, white label and social media shops, and countless other applications using Spreadshirt’s API.

Founded in 2002 in Leipzig Germany, Spreadshirt is a global company with Headquarters in Germany and the United States and factories in North America, Germany and Poland to allow rapid delivery to customers.

For more information about Spreadshirt, please contact PR Savvy

Mayra Cunningham / mayra.cunningham@prsavvy.co.uk / 078 2525 1615
Kate Warwick / kate.warwick@prsavvy.co.uk / 078 1069 7282

London, 9 December 2011, Clothing-commerce platform, Spreadshirt (www.spreadshirt.co.uk) saw a rise in hurricane designs on its Marketplace on Thursday and the creation of a new online shop, I Survived Hurricane BawBag (www.isurvivedhurricanebawbag.spreadshirt.co.uk). Get Around Glasgow and Classic Weather Icons also extended their ranges to include BawBag clothing. By using Spreadshirt’s clothing-commerce offering and print-on-demand technology, some of these designs were available and selling by 3pm on Thursday afternoon.

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On Friday 9th, Spreadshirt was contacted by workers on a rig 140 miles north-east of Shetland asking if they can have a commemorative shirt. Get Around Glasgow is preparing a special version; I Survived Hurricane Bawbag OFFSHORE. (www.getaroundglasgow.spreadshirt.co.uk/)

The 8th December saw the twitter hashtag #hurricanebawbag trend worldwide as the north of the country was lashed by cold winds, which reached up to 138.5mph in the Orkney Islands. Hardy survivors can now choose from a range of designs, including up-turned umbrellas, the slogan ‘one of our trampolines is missing’ and a collection of extreme weather symbols including a limited edition pressure chart (http://weather.spreadshirt.co.uk/). Wearers can choose from a range of t-shirts, hoodies and bags in a style, colour and size to suit them.

Spreadshirt shop partners can bring their design ideas to life through white label and social media shops or the Spreadshirt market place. Print-on-demand technology means that each item of clothing is printed only when it is ordered. This removes the need for a large investment upfront, or surplus stock. Spreadshirt’s fulfilment service handles everything from production and payment to shipping and customer service for its Shop Partners.

About Spreadshirt
Spreadshirt (www.spreadshirt.co.uk) is the leading multi-channel clothing commerce platform for creating, buying and selling personalised apparel. For the more than 35,000 active online shops selling around the world in 2010, the Spreadshirt c-commerce platform offers a flexible, risk-free, print-on-demand approach. Spreadshirt’s fulfilment service handles everything from production and payment to shipping and customer service.

The platform provides multiple channels to bring customers’ ideas to life on clothing. These channels include 3rd party e-commerce marketplaces like Amazon, white label and social media shops, and countless other applications using Spreadshirt’s API.

Founded in 2002 in Leipzig Germany, Spreadshirt is a global company with Headquarters in Germany and the United States and factories in North America, Germany and Poland to allow rapid delivery to customers. For additional information, visit Spreadshirt on Twitter, Flickr or Facebook .

For more information about Spreadshirt, please contact PR Savvy
Mayra Cunningham / mayra.cunningham@prsavvy.co.uk / 078 2525 1615
Kate Warwick/ kate.warwick@prsavvy.co.uk / 078 1069 7282