Pop City is a weekly e-magazine that features stories about all of the good things happening in the Pittsburgh region. The weekly news is delivered to your email box every Wednesday morning. Spreadshirt is featured this week in an article about international businesses locating in Pittsburgh.
Would it surprise you to know that two German twenty-somethings have moved their U.S. headquarters to Greensburg, Pennsylvania from Louisville? As an entirely Web-based operation, Spreadshirt.com can go virtually anywhere it wants. Founded in Leipzig two years ago, Spreadshirt.com enables users to design, buy and sell custom T-shirts online.
Chief Operating Officer Carsten Petzold says that Greensburg is the right location for expansion and lower costs, while the company’s small Pittsburgh office gives Spreadshirt.com access to tech and public relations expertise and the design talent of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
The region’s strengths, he believes “are better on the IT administration end” than other areas such as front-line tech skills and tech sales talent. He is encouraged, though, by 
“a lot of young professionals” in the Pittsburgh area who purchase online product.
Lindsay Patross
Dave
Just wanted to point out that the company was actually founded four years ago in Leipzig. We opened our doors in Louisville, KY in 2004 and moved the company to the Pittsburgh, PA area in Mai 2005.