Cimpress N.V. is a Dutch company that produces products that can be customized including: printed marketing materials, signage, photo products, embroidered apparel and promotional products. The company uses mass customization methods to make small quantities of individually customized goods affordable. Those products are sold to small businesses, graphic designers and consumers through a number of customer-facing brands that Cimpress operates.
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Business operations
Cimpress is based in Venlo, Netherlands and employs 10000 people globally across manufacturing, marketing, technology, software development, sales and support functions. It has offices and manufacturing facilities throughout Europe, North and South America, India, Australia, Philippines, China and Japan.
Through the use of its own patented technology, Cimpress aggregates, via the Internet, large volumes of small, individually customized orders for a broad spectrum of print, signage, apparel and similar products.
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History
The company was founded under the name Bonne Impression in 1995 in Paris, France by current President and CEO Robert Keane. It was a direct marketer of desktop publishing software and pre-printed laser-printer-compatible specialty papers for printing brochures, stationery and business cards from the desktops - focused on small business customers. In 1999, the company moved its business to the internet and changed its name to Vistaprint.
This was followed by its initial public offering in 2005 when it began trading on the Nasdaq under VPRT. The company built its first manufacturing facility in Venlo, the Netherlands, in 2003. This was followed by a North American production facility in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, in 2005. It continued to expand its operations, opening manufacturing plants in Deer Park, Australia and Bhiwandi, India, and numerous offices around the world.
In November 2014, the company changed its name from Vistaprint N.V. to Cimpress N.V. to clarify the distinction between the corporate entity's manufacturing platform and the company's portfolio of customer-facing brands.
Acquisitions
Cimpress has acquired several companies that specialize in online printing and mass customization.
In November 2011, Cimpress acquired Albumprinter, a company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands that produces photobooks and Webs, a company based in Silver Spring, Maryland, that enables users to create free websites.
In 2014, Cimpress acquired People & Print Group (renamed Printdeal as of January 1, 2015), an online printing company based in Deventer, Netherlands. In the same year, it acquired Pixartprinting, an online printing company based in Quarto d'Altino, Italy.
In 2015, Cimpress acquired three additional online printing companies in Europe: Druck.at, Easyflyer, Exaprint and Tradeprint.
On Dec 30th 2016, Cimpress acquired "National Pen Co. LLC", the leading provider of a wide array of customized writing instruments & other promotional products catering to small and medium-sized businesses in more than 20 countries.
Manufacturing
Cimpress has manufacturing facilities in North America, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, totaling over 140,000 square meters (1,500,000 square feet) of manufacturing space. In 2016, the company opened its first US manufacturing plant in Reno, Nevada.
References
External Links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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