Spread Group

sprd.net AG
Company type	Joint-stock company
Industry	Customized apparel and accessories
Founded	May 2002 (then Spreadshirt GbR); Leipzig, Germany
Founders	Lukasz Gadowski; Matthias Spieß;
Headquarters	Gießerstr. 27, Leipzig, Germany
Key people	Dr. Julian de Grahl (CEO); Tobias Schaugg (CFO); Jürgen Krisch (CTO); Hugo Smoter (CCO); Hanne Dinkel (CCDO); Lukasz Gadowski (Supervisory Board Chairman);
Products	Apparel and accessories
Services	Screen printing, digital printing, flock printing, flex printing, digital transfer, vinyl printing, thermal sublimation
Revenue	US$195 million (2020)
Number of employees	c. 1000 (2020)
Website	www.spreadgroup.com

Spread Group (legally sprd.net AG) is the umbrella brand of five internationally active e-commerce platforms with headquarters in Leipzig, Germany and Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States. It operates production sites in Legnica, Poland, Krupka, Czech Republic and Henderson, Nevada, United States. Founded in 2002 as a student start-up, the name "Spreadshirt" has become part of today's group of companies: Spreadshirt Create Your Own, Spreadshirt Marketplaces, Spreadshop, TeamShirts and SPOD (Spreadshirt Print-on-Demand).

All business transactions are conducted through the Internet: The Shop Owner uploads graphics, logos, etc. online, and uses these to customize products. Spread Group then handles all the necessary actions — from warehousing to production, shipping, payment processing and customer service — to distribute those custom merchandising products online.