Draft:Queensboro Shirt Company

Queensboro Shirt Company (Queensboro.com) is an American internet based custom logo apparel shirt company with offices in Dallas, Texas and in Wilmington, North Carolina. The company uses embroidery, screen print and digital printing techniques to imprint designs onto shirts and other apparel such as hats, jackets sweatshirts and bags.

History
Queensboro Shirt Company was founded by Fred Meyers in New York in the late 1970s as a hobby when he was a college student. He is the current president of the company.

In 1995, Queensboro moved its headquarters to Wilmington, North Carolina. In August 2010, Queensboro received an order for 9,000 embroidered shirts and hats from Chief John Nwodo in Enugu, Nigeria, in preparation for the city's 100th-anniversary celebration. Given the size of the order, the company requested phone verification and upfront payment through a certified check. Once the payment was confirmed, Queensboro quickly processed the order and dispatched it by December 16, marking their first-ever shipment to Africa.

In November 2010, Queensboro introduced "Zap Tee," an iPhone application that allows users to select or upload images for shirt printing and embroidery. Once an image is chosen, the order is sent to Queensboro for processing and shipment.

Operations
Queensboro's operations are housed in a renovated 100,000-square-foot building on 13th Street, originally from the 1950s. In Dallas, they operate out of a 40,000 industrial building in the Farmer’s Branch neighborhood.