Spreadshirt Grows Key Licensing Division with Marvel Win

June 24, 2014 - PRLog -- Spreadshirt has added Marvel Entertainment, LLC and its beloved character Captain America to its licensing business. Printing merchandise on demand and under license is a key element of Spreadshirt’s Marketplace offering (http://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/brand+t-shirts). The e-commerce platform enables brands to sell ideas across a wide range of merchandise, whilst staying within copyright laws and brand guidelines.

Philip Rooke, CEO at Spreadshirt explains, “We’re really proud that Spreadshirt can offer brands like Marvel the most efficient way to publish its ideas on merchandising. By leveraging print-on-demand technology, passionate Marvel fans can buy Captain America and other merchandise, anywhere in the world. We’re delighted to be working with Marvel and its avid fans everywhere.”

He continues, “Our global footprint, deal flexibility, wide range of products, print-on-demand technology and different sales routes means we can accelerate brands through the process of getting merchandise online and available to their fans worldwide. This isn’t just a one-off opportunity either; Marvel can use Spreadshirt’s platform to continue to create new ideas for fans to buy and wear.”

The range, which launches with Captain America designs, is available for sale via the platform’s marketplace (http://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/user/6852889) and soon through the Spreadshirt Amazon shop, where devoted fans can get their official merchandise. The license agreement with Marvel Entertainment, LLC will also include further popular characters from upcoming movies, such as Guardians of the Galaxy and Marvel’s The Avengers 2.

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About Spreadshirt

Spreadshirt is one of the world's leading e-commerce platforms for on-demand printing of clothing and accessories. Its customers (individuals, businesses, organisations and teams) can create, buy and sell their ideas on over 180 different products.

The business model includes four areas where sellers and customers can offer or buy a product: Create Your Own, Spreadshirt's and other online market places, white-label online stores and Spreadshirt's fulfilment technology. Spreadshirt’s more than 70,000 active sellers include companies such as Otto, Beck's & Doctors without Borders.

Spreadshirt is active in 17 markets and 9 languages and operates four production sites in Germany, Poland and the USA. The company was founded in 2002 and, in 2013, achieved revenue of around 72 million Euros, printed about 3.3 million articles and sent them to more than 40 countries.

laFraise, the social network for graphic designers and artists, and Yink, a large volume provider for individual textile and promotional printing are also part of the Spreadshirt family.

About Marvel Entertainment, LLC

Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of over 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing and publishing.

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