CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic. Launched in 1999, CafePress.com has empowered individuals, organizations and businesses to create, buy and sell customized merchandise online using the company's unique print-on-demand and e-commerce services. Today, CafePress.com is a growing network of over 2 million members who have unleashed their creativity to transform their artwork and ideas into unique gifts and new revenue streams.
Their members have created over 22 million original designs on more than 80 customizable products ranging from apparel, home and office accessories to music and data CDs and books to prints, posters and cards.
Powering independently-run shops as well as syndicated and corporate stores, they manage every aspect of doing business online, including storefront development, site hosting, order management, fulfillment, secure payment processing, and quality customer service - enabling anyone to open a free shop with no upfront costs and no inventory to manage. CafePress.com is a privately owned, profitable company based in San Leandro, California.
Corporate Headquarters: Foster City, California Production Facilities: Hayward, California and Louisville, KYHistory
Prior to founding CafePress.com, Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain, self-proclaimed serial
entrepreneurs, launched several consumer and business technology companies after
graduating from Northwestern University. Together, they focused on developing software
applications targeted to the diverse needs of small businesses and the larger broadcast
and commercial printing industries.
Durham and Jain set out to redefine the way business is done by using the power of the Internet to create a new class of entrepreneurs. In 1999, taking the best elements from each of their previous business ventures, the duo launched CafePress.com. Their corporate headquarters are in Foster City, California. Production facilities are located in Hayward, California and Louisville, KY.
CafePress Services
- CafePress.com® Marketplace:
- In the CafePress.com Marketplace, a dynamic online retail experience, visitors will find over 18 million unique items created by members around the globe. No matter what your passion, there's a product for you.
- Create & SellSM:
- Through the CafePress.com Create & Sell service, customers are able to open an online shop to transform their artwork and ideas into new revenue streams and diverse products - all with no upfront costs and no inventory to manage.
- Create & BuySM:
- The CafePress.com Create & Buy service empowers people to personalize their own gifts. Customers can add their own personal touch to more than 80 products - all with a few clicks of the mouse.
Independent Shopkeepers & Major Accounts
CafePress.com is a global and growing network of over 2 million independent
shopkeepers and members in addition to syndicated and corporate stores. CafePress.com
has over 35 major accounts, including United Media, Dilbert, Get Fuzzy,
Phil Collins and Startrek.com. In addition, CafePress.com has strategic agreements
with licensors that include more than 80 properties.
Fun Facts
- Whats Your Passion?® - politics, babies, music, pets, sci-fi, knitting - there's something for everyone at CafePress.com
- The CafePress.com web site averages over 6 million unique visits per month
- Approximately 1000 new, independent shops join the CafePress.com network each day
- As of the end of 2005, over 2.6 million orders had been shipped to customers spanning the globe
- Roughly 25,000 new, unique items are added each day
- The most popular item is the white T-Shirt; nearly half a million white T-Shirts were purchased in the first five years
CafePress has won major awards and is ranked in the top 500 websites worldwide.
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