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Taylor Corporation Acquires Gooten, Inc.

Posted on by Zumi

NORTH MANKATO, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Taylor Corporation today announced the acquisition of Gooten, Inc., a leading print on demand technology and fulfillment provider. The Gooten technology platform, OrderMesh, along with Gooten’s growing fulfillment network will now be combined with Taylor’s national manufacturing footprint and global technology development expertise. This transaction will allow both companies to dramatically accelerate their print on demand market position.

“Joining Taylor is all about strategic growth within a critical growth segment of our industry,” said Maddy Alcala, President of Gooten. “Taylor provides the foundation to grow faster and deliver more value to our customers. The Gooten team is eager to begin this exciting path forward with Taylor,” she said.

The print on demand global market along with its brands, creators and resellers is projected to increase in revenues 10-fold by 2034. Seamlessly integrating with this vast and diverse customer base will be an essential requirement for long-term success.

“The Gooten partnership is not new to Taylor,” said Nate Mullikin, Enterprise Group President for Taylor. “As a current strategic technology provider to Taylor’s print on demand business, Gooten and OrderMesh have been critical to enhancing and simplifying the total experience for our customers from order entry to product delivery. This deeper relationship will scale our reach and capabilities in a game changing way.”

About Taylor Corporation

Taylor is a global print and communications company headquartered in North Mankato, Minnesota. Nearly 10,000 employees strong, Taylor has print operations in dozens of U.S. states and in multiple countries around the world.

About Gooten, Inc.

Gooten, Inc. is a prominent provider of order management software and fulfillment services specializing in print on demand production. Gooten helps businesses optimize vendor and order management through its OrderMesh platform, fostering profitable and risk-free growth through its on-demand manufacturing model. Gooten was founded in 2015 and has a global support team.

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OrderMesh: Modern Order Management Infrastructure for Print-on-Demand

Posted on by Maddy Alcala

Over the last decade, Gooten has operated deep in print-on-demand: fulfilling millions of items, supporting recognizable brands, and navigating the complexity of made-to-order production at scale.

We’ve seen the pain points: brittle integrations, misrouted orders, exception overload, production blackouts, inconsistent SKU data, and hours lost to spreadsheets just to move orders from acceptance to shipment. The takeaway is simple: print-on-demand isn’t hard for businesses to use because of the printing. It’s hard because of inadequate infrastructure and technology.

That’s why we built OrderMesh.

OrderMesh wasn’t a side project for Gooten. It was the biggest bet we ever made that started in 2021.

As our fulfillment network expanded and enterprise customers demanded more flexibility and operational intelligence, our legacy Gooten systems couldn’t keep pace. We didn’t need another patch—we needed new infrastructure.

We needed something modern and API-first, with platform security rigorous enough to withstand enterprise compliance vetting. Something purpose-built for print’s complexity and a system that would make a print-on-demand expert say “this was built by someone who knows this space.”

That’s what OrderMesh delivers. It’s the most strategic investment we’ve made as a company, and it now forms the foundation for Gooten as part of Taylor Corporation.

What It Does

OrderMesh is an order management platform built for the print-on-demand supply chain. It connects brands, marketplaces, decorators, printers, and distributors, orchestrating how orders move across vendors, methods, and systems.

Dynamic routing and exception handling.

Use OrderMesh to route orders across locations, vendors, or print methods based on customer requirements, available capacity, supplier preference, performance, and more, with real-time exception management built in. If the data exists, it can inform routing in OrderMesh.

Plug-and-play integrations.

Our growing ecosystem of vendor plugins, platform connectors, and open APIs makes it straightforward to manage fulfillment networks and connect sales channels without engineering bottlenecks. Make OrderMesh the last vendor integration you ever need with self-serve vendor onboarding features and a developer environment built for print.

Product normalization and catalog control.

     OrderMesh normalizes catalog data across producers, creating a single source of truth and making multi-node vendor networks functional. The print-on-demand industry lacks data standards and the OrderMesh team is keen to solve this problem. 

    Operational visibility.

    Every order is traceable. Monitor margin, SLA, throughput, facility performance—all tracked and visible.

    Whether you’re a brand running your own supply chain, a marketplace connecting buyers and producers, or a manufacturer in-need of internal order management tooling, OrderMesh can work for you and replace clunky legacy systems with modern, reliable technology. OrderMesh is SOC 2 compliant from the ground up and your data is your data with the right to be forgotten. Reliability, security, and data integrity aren’t optional for the OrderMesh team and they shouldn’t be for your business either. 

    Where Gooten Fits In

    OrderMesh doesn’t replace Gooten—it expands what Gooten can do.

    Our Fulfillment Network now operates within the OrderMesh platform. You still access our production partners, but with better tooling and transparency. That means a fulfillment network ten times larger and truly global. A catalog expanding from hundreds of thousands of SKUs to millions. More integrations, more routing flexibility, fewer bottlenecks. Expansion beyond print-on-demand into new fulfillment strategies and production types. 

    Gooten can act as a “vendor” for your business through this Fulfillment Network, but the power of OrderMesh is the tooling that gives you the ability to transact directly with print-on-demand suppliers as well. You own the commercial relationships; we’re just the software layer that makes it easy to do business. 

    OrderMesh already powers some of the most complex operations in print. If you’re ready to see what it can do for yours, reach out at ordermesh.com.