Marpple Corporation, a South Korea-based print on demand (POD) platform, has received a strategic investment from Nexon. Nexon announced today that the two companies will collaborate to launch the NEXON GLOBAL IP SHOP within the year. The amount of the investment is undisclosed. 

Marpple Corporation, founded in 2014, is a POD-based custom goods production platform that provides infrastructure and commerce solutions for individuals, organizations, and creators to produce various digital contents such as designs created by themselves or IP owned by companies as physical goods.

Marpple has an automated order production process and a system that can produce various products in small batches, so it is free from the ‘minimum quantity’ requirement, which is a barrier to goods production, and can produce and utilize various types of products with less burden on inventory.

In addition, Mapple, which provides comprehensive commerce solutions such as inventory management, logistics, and delivery, as well as custom product production, has proven product production and platform operation know-how with more than 1.13 million accumulated members, more than 890,000 average monthly visitors, and more than 50,000 creator sellers.

Nexon plans to launch NEXON GLOBAL IP SHOP, an official retailer of IP merchandise, by the end of the year to provide opportunities to experience its IP in a variety of ways. By collaborating with Marpple, Nexon will be able to extend the IP value of its more than 50 live games and upcoming titles to more than 1,000 different products, including apparel, phone cases, hats, cushions, and bags.

In addition, the two companies will integrate Nexon’s data science capabilities into Marpple’s services to evolve into a data-driven creator commerce platform.

“We will do our best to deliver a differentiated experience to our users by collaborating with Marpple Corporation, Korea’s leading POD platform with global competitiveness,” said Lee Jung-heon, CEO of Nexon.