London–17 January 2012 –Spreadshirt (www.spreadshirt.co.uk), the leading multi-channel clothing commerce platform, continues to benefit from the growing shift to shopping on the web as it today announced its record-breaking December results. The company saw UK sales increase 49% year-on-year and an impressive 75% globally.
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.
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