Our story starts June of 2000 in Blacksburg, Virginia when a recent Virginia Tech graduate opened an online clothing store. To compete with larger businesses, systems and techniques were developed to make the process simple, accurate and efficient.

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The clothing business rapidly grew and in 2007 was moved from Blacksburg, Virginia to just outside of Richmond, Virginia in Ashland for better access to airports and the I95 corridor. By this time, we had 7 years of e-commerce experience and had noticed a major issue – not caused by us, but rather most of our vendors.

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We were having trouble getting inventory to keep up with the demand of the business. More often than not, the shipments were missing items, wrong items were shipped, or we even received the completely wrong orders. To make matters worse the lead times on these orders were sometimes 2-3 weeks, which is a lifetime when you’re out of stock.

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The constant mistakes and issues led to discussions on how our systems worked and why it was better than outdated warehouse methods used by the warehouses our vendors utilized. By 2007, one vendor was so fed up with their current warehouse, they asked if we could ship for them and that was the start of what later would become Shipvine.

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Year after year we slowly added more customers, completely by word of mouth. By 2012 revenue for our side shipping business grew larger than the clothing store. At that point, a name was chosen and Shipvine was spun off into a totally separate business.

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By 2015, Shipvine had expanded so much that it needed a new home and the decision was made to sell off the clothing business. By July of 2015, Shipvine had relocated to the historic Manchester area of Richmond, Virginia.