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Tipsy Elves is a holiday-themed apparel company. It sells holiday sweaters and other holiday-themed items through its website and other online vendors, and donates part of each sale to charity. In December 2013 the company owners appeared on the US television show ''Shark Tank'', and received $100,000 in funding to help the company move into the retail market. ==Company history== Tipsy Elves was founded in early 2011 by Evan Mendelsohn, a lawyer working for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton with a JD and MBA from the University of Southern California,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Me )〕 and Nick Morton, an endodontist who graduated from the University of the Pacific in 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=May 16, 2008 )〕 Their first line of designs were debuted during the Christmas season of that year, featuring Ugly Christmas sweaters with a humorous twist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=October 25, 2011 )〕 The company produces holiday-themed sweaters and other apparel, designed to put an alternative spin on traditional Christmas motifs. Their buck-toothed reindeer sweater design and others were described by ''People Magazine'' as "sly, sneaky and cheeky". The buck-toothed reindeer sweater was also worn by the anchors of the ''Today Show'' in their ugly Christmas sweater competition of December 2011. The Tipsy Elves brand is split between a "naughty" line with more extreme examples of humor, and a "nice" line that features tamer comical designs,〔 however the naughty line is the main selling line. In the first year of sales the company sold over one thousand sweaters reaching about $370,000 in total web sales, and in the following year it reached nearly $1 million in sales. Tipsy Elves also runs the charity Sweaters 4 Sweaters, which donates sweaters to children in need using a portion of all the company's profits. In 2013 the company partnered with Stand Up to Cancer, and donated $2 from every sweater to the charity. The company has pledged between $25,000 and $100,000. In 2014, the company's revenues had been projected as $12 million.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tipsy Elves」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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