“Mergers are easy”
This has never been said by anyone, ever.
And they aren’t easy for the most recent employees (I’ve spoken to) that have been affected by the latest round of 2025 layoffs at the newly merged company.
Ever since Printful & Printify announced their merger, there have been more questions than answers, and just about everyone in the print on demand space has been keeping tabs on how this big consolidation will shake out and who will benefit the most, customers, employees, or inventors?
In February of 2025, my inbox began filling up with outreach from laid off Printful and Printify employees; (I’ve hidden the details to respect the privacy of individuals.)
In speaking with previous employees, it sounds like cuts have been made to the executive teams and account management teams, and possibly others. According to one previous employee I spoke to, estimating approximately “40% of Printful account executives were laid off.” And it seems like the company is “allocating investment instead to marketing teams,” not customer care teams.
“It’s not easy to combine two fully formed professional entities, each with its own leadership, staff, processes, customers and values. Mergers and acquisitions are two things that are—simply put—easy to be bad at.”
– Darren Person Chief Digital Officer at the Cengage Group.
To give credit to the leadership teams & Printful & Printify, they did do exactly what they said they were going to do according to a tech crunch posting, released on 11/5/2025;
“There will be some areas of overlap between the two companies and some changes to teams will take place. The company leadership will ensure that this process is clear, transparent, and efficient.” – A spokesperson for Printful/Printfy speaking to Tech Crunch
Also, this isn’t the first round of layoffs at Printful, if you remember back to when Printful shuttered their Los Angeles production facilities, affecting 184 employees according to Warn notices filed from 2020-2023.
While it appears the merger hasn’t been the best experience for employees affected by these layoffs, hopefully things are going better for their customers & investors.
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