products gift cards website official website cardlab is a texas based company that provides branded giftcards for companies to use as employee incentives or for sale to customers . contents 1 the company 2 executives 3 philanthropy 4 references 5 external links the company edit cardlab was founded in dallas texas during 2007 by current ceo david jones . 1 2 between 2007 and 2011 they served over 5700 different businesses providing them with branded giftcards for them to give as incentives to employees cards branded by the company giving them but that can be used at anywhere . the cards were not reloadable and could be loaded with up to 2500 . in december 2008 the cards were featured in the o magazine holiday gift guide . 3 the company runs two websites through which their products can be purchased incentivecardlab.com giftcardlab.com 4 and also own giftcard.com a domain name they purchased in late 2012 for 4 million in cash and stock . part of the deal also involved the acquisition of 1 800 giftcard.com its toll free number and client list . they also raised 3 million in financing from cypress growth capital that same year . 2 the company started out allowing companies or stores to develop their own custom visa gift cards . starting in 2012 local companies could sign up for their own personal custom gift cards produced through cardlab as well . cardlab has targeted companies both nationally and within their central region of texas representing about major 130 brands as of mid 2012 . national clients that use cardlab for their giftcards include best buy chili s disney j.c. penney itunes neiman marcus and marriott hotels . 5 between 2012 and 2013 the company doubled its revenues and they moved their headquarters from dallas to addison texas in august 2013 . according to addison magazine as of that month the company supplie d prepaid award cards to more ... 35 % of fortune 100 companies . it also reported that the company was among the top 50 fastest growing e retailers in 2012 . 6 executives edit ceo david jones has been interviewed regarding employee engagement with the companies they work for 7 in addition to how to prevent giftcard fraud associated with over the counter giftcards focusing on the greater safety of custom giftcards that are not stored on public shelves where potential thieves can record the information necessary to fraud giftcard purchasers . 8 philanthropy edit in august 2012 the company donated a 50 visa gift card to the charity bryan s house for every purchase made on their website a charity that supports children affected by hiv aids and other special health issues in the dallas area . the company commonly runs month long fundraising campaigns for charities or non profits nominated by the company staff including national charities like breast cancer walk . 4 references edit emily maltby september 23 2010 . entrepreneurs mixed on small business bill . wall street journal . retrieved january 28 2014 . a b hanah cho october 3 2012 . dallas based gift cardlab rebranding itself as giftcard.com . dallas news . retrieved january 28 2014 . jordan melnick december 2011 . stop rewarding your crew with cash . qsr magazine . retrieved january 28 2014 . a b alex palmer august 2 2012 . cardlab launches charity promotion . incentive magazine . retrieved january 28 2014 . steven r. thompson june 7 2012 . cardlab adds local stores to gift card offerings . dallas business journal . retrieved january 28 2014 . alannah connealy august 15 2013 . cardlab inc. moves headquarters to addison . addison magazine . retrieved january 28 2014 . anna papachristos january 20 2014 . detecting disengagement 3 signs your employees are dissatisfied . 1to1 magazine . retrieved january 28 2014 . jared hatch january 25 2012 . david jones of giftcardlab.com dishes on why buying gift cards in stores is risky business . racked . retrieved january 28 2014 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cardlab & oldid 743419167 categories 2007 establishments in texascompanies based in addison texascredit cardscompanies based in dallasretail companies established in 2007 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 15 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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