Company Overview
| Company Name |
CAFEPRESS INC. |
| Company Address |
1850 GATEWAY DRIVE SUITE 300 SAN MATEO, CA 94404 |
| Company Phone |
650.655.3000 |
| Company Website |
www.cafepress.com |
| CEO |
Bob Marino |
| Employees (as of 12/31/2011) |
523 |
| State of Inc |
DE |
| Fiscal Year End |
12/31 |
| Status |
Priced (3/29/2012) |
| Proposed Symbol |
PRSS |
| Exchange |
Nasdaq National Market |
| Share Price |
$19.00 |
| Shares Offered |
4,500,000 |
| Offer Amount |
$85,500,000.00 |
| Total Expenses |
$2,800,000.00 |
| Shares Over Alloted |
0 |
| Shareholder Shares Offered |
2,000,000 |
| Shares Outstanding |
16,978,700 |
| Lockup Period (days) |
180 |
| Lockup Expiration |
9/25/2012 |
| Quiet Period Expiration |
5/8/2012 |
| CIK |
0001117733 |
We estimate that we will receive net proceeds from this offering of
approximately $41.4 million, based on the initial public offering price of
$19.00 per share, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions
and estimated offering expenses payable by us. We will not receive any
proceeds from the sale of shares by any selling stockholder.
The principal purposes for this offering are to increase our working capital,
create a public market for our common stock and facilitate our access to the
public capital markets.
We currently intend to use our proceeds from this offering for general
corporate purposes, including working capital and capital expenditures. The
amount and timing of these expenditures will vary depending on a number of
factors, including competitive and technological developments and the rate
of growth, if any, of our business. In addition, we may use a portion of
the net proceeds to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, products
or technologies, including in connection with our proposed acquisition of
substantially all of the assets of Logo’d Softwear, Inc.; however, we do not
currently have any understandings or agreements relating to any significant
acquisitions or investments other than for Logo’d Softwear, Inc.
As of the date of this prospectus, we have not determined all of the
anticipated uses for the proceeds of this offering or the amounts that we
will actually spend on the uses set forth above. The amount and timing of
actual expenditures may vary significantly depending upon a number of factors,
including the amount of cash generated from our operations, competitive and
technological developments and the rate of growth, if any, of our business.
Accordingly, our management will have significant flexibility in applying the
net proceeds of this offering. Pending use of the net proceeds as described
above, we intend to invest the net proceeds of this offering in short-term,
interest-bearing, investment-grade securities.
The market for customized products and services is large, fragmented and
intensely competitive and we expect competition to increase in the future. We
face competition from a wide range of companies, including the following:
• traditional offline printing businesses;
• e-commerce companies, including large online retailers such as
Amazon.com and eBay;
• physical and catalog retailers of personalized merchandise;
• online providers of unique goods such as Etsy, as well as various other
private companies offering customized products such as CustomInk,
Spreadshirt, Threadless or Zazzle; and
• online providers allowing users to customize goods in specific vertical
markets, such as VistaPrint for small businesses and Shutterfly for
photographic products.
We also indirectly compete with Internet portals and shopping search engines
that are involved in e-commerce or sell products or services either directly
or in collaboration with other retailers. If more companies begin selling
customized products, we will face more direct and intense competition.
Furthermore, to the extent that other companies are able to replicate our
processes or that advances in print-on-demand technologies reduce any
technological or other early mover leads we may have, our business, prospects,
financial condition and results of operations could be harmed.
Some of our current and potential competitors may have significantly greater
financial, marketing and other resources than us, including significant brand
recognition, sales volume and customer bases. In addition, other online
retailers may be acquired by, receive investment from or enter into strategic
relationships with, well-established and well-financed companies or investors
which would help enhance their competitive positions. Some of our competitors
may be able to secure goods and raw materials from suppliers on more favorable
terms, devote greater resources to marketing activities and promotional
campaigns, adopt more aggressive pricing policies and devote substantially
more resources to website and system development than us. Increased
competition may reduce our operating margins, market share and brand
recognition, or force us to incur losses. We may not be able to compete
successfully against current and future competitors, and competitive pressures
may harm our business, prospects, financial condition and results of
operations.
We believe the principal competitive factors in our industry include:
• favorable brand recognition and trust;
• technological expertise;
• quality, breadth and type of the products sold and services offered;
• ability to source products efficiently and cost effectively;
• ease of use and convenience;
• ability to anticipate and quickly adapt to changing customer demands
and customer service needs;
• ability to recruit talent;
• competitive pricing; and
• effective marketing.
We believe that we compete favorably with respect to each of these factors.
Company Description
We believe we are a leading e-commerce platform enabling customers worldwide
to create, buy and sell a wide variety of customized and personalized
products. We serve our customers, including both consumers and content owners,
through our portfolio of e-commerce websites, including our flagship
website,
CafePress.com. Our consumers include millions of individuals, groups,
businesses and organizations who leverage our innovative and proprietary
print-on-demand services to express personal and shared interests, beliefs
and affiliations by customizing a wide variety of products. These products
include clothing and accessories, art and posters, stickers, home accents and
stationery. Our content owners include individual designers as well as
artists and branded content licensors who leverage our platform to reach
a mass consumer base and share and monetize their content. We believe we are
a leading e-commerce platform for customization of consumer products based on
our more than a decade of experience of providing high-quality customized
products in single unit and small quantity orders on a when-ordered basis.
We have developed a strong brand with a growing community that, as of
December 31, 2011, had more than 15 million members and more than three
million shops, and we shipped over 7.8 million products in 2011 from
a catalog of over 320 million unique products, as measured by the number of
different combinations of designs and types of merchandise.
Our mission is to offer an unrivaled platform that is the world’s premier
source for self-expression through product customization and personalization.
We benefit from the network effect created when millions of customers are
attracted to our catalog of content and are often inspired to contribute
and share their own content. By enabling communities to share their interests,
beliefs and affiliations through customized and personalized merchandise, we
believe we drive social commerce.
Our expansive content catalog covers topics our customers are deeply
passionate about, as well as relevant current events. As a result, we
believe our catalog serves as a cultural barometer reflecting the latest
topics, ideas, trends, moods and opinions. For the year ended December 31,
2011, we had nearly 130,000 new images uploaded to our retail e-commerce
websites on average per week.
We have built a state-of-the-art facility in Louisville, Kentucky with
innovative technology and manufacturing processes that enable us to provide
high-quality customized products that are individually built to order at
mass scale. Our proprietary, vertically integrated processes enable us to
produce a broad range of merchandise efficiently, and cost effectively and
quickly. We have an art print production facility in Portland, Oregon and
as a result of our acquisition of Canvas On Demand LLC, we also have a custom
canvas production facility in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our recent acquisition
of substantially all of the assets of L&S Retail Ventures, Inc., including
the e-commerce website InvitationBox.com, adds further print production
facilities in North Carolina. We also recently entered into an agreement to
acquire substantially all of the assets of Logo’d Softwear, Inc., which, if
and when consummated, will add further print production facilities in
Connecticut. We may not be able to close this acquisition as planned or at
all, and may be unable to successfully integrate this business or realize
the anticipated benefits of the acquisition.
The majority of our net revenues is generated from sales of customized
products through our e-commerce websites and associated charges. In addition,
we generate revenues from fulfillment services, including print and production
services provided to third parties. Fulfillment revenues were less than 2%
and 1% of net revenues during the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2011,
respectively.
Consumers purchase customized products directly from our website or through
storefronts hosted by CafePress. Customized products include user-designed
products as well as products designed by our content owners. We pay royalties
to content owners for the use of their content on our products and royalty
payments are included in cost of net revenues.
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CafePress Inc., a Delaware corporation, was incorporated as CafePress.com,
Inc. in California on October 15, 1999, and reincorporated in Delaware on
January 19, 2005. Our corporate headquarters are located at 1850 Gateway
Drive, Suite 300, San Mateo, California 94404 and our telephone number is
(650) 655-3000. We maintain numerous e-commerce websites including those
found at www.cafepress.com, www.canvasondemand.com, www.imagekind.com and
www.invitationbox.com.