#pastygate: Spreadshirt shop partners respond with humour
London, 30 March 2012, Spreadshirt UK shop partners have reacted to this week’s #pastygate with their customary humour. @FleetStreetFox responded to with t-shirts saying Oi Gideon! Leave My Pasties Alone! http://fleetstreetfox.spreadshirt.co.uk/ Whilst the Hands Off Our Pasties! site adapted the Keep Calm And Carry On design to combine on the pasty, petrol and stamp stories: Panic! Buy Petrol, Stamps and Pasties. http://pasty.spreadshirt.co.uk/
Spreadshirt’s clothing-commerce offering and print-on-demand technology, means that shop partners or brands can respond to events by quickly uploading new designs, keeping their sites fresh and topical.
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.
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”.
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 and customer service.
The platform provides multiple channels to bring customers’ ideas to life on clothing. These channels include 3rdparty 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
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