FBA sales on Amazon.ca increase 100 percent
over Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Fulfillment by Amazon delivered more than two
billion items for sellers worldwide in 2016
FBA items shipped worldwide grew more than 50
percent during the holiday season
Thousands of sellers worldwide joined the
Seller Fulfilled Prime program
SEATTLE, Jan. 4, 2017 /CNW/ - (NASDAQ: AMZN) - Amazon
today announced that Marketplace sellers on Amazon.ca achieved a
record-setting one billion in sales in 2016. The Amazon Marketplace
creates opportunities for sellers, brand owners and entrepreneurs
to reach customers around the world. FBA items shipped worldwide
grew more than 50 percent during the holiday season, while Prime
members ordered millions of items from sellers in the Seller
Fulfilled Prime program offering free two-day or next-day
shipping.
"2016 was a record-breaking year in sales worldwide for sellers
on Amazon. The Amazon Marketplace empowers brand owners and
retailers of all sizes, many of them small businesses, to reach
customers around the world," said Peter
Faricy, VP for Amazon Marketplace. "In fact, according to
our economic studies, sellers have created over 600,000 new jobs
outside of Amazon. Sellers are choosing Amazon because we help them
build and grow their businesses with impactful programs like Seller
Fulfilled Prime, and we're proud of the fact that sellers are
reinvesting their success into their local communities by creating
jobs."
Here's what sellers on Amazon.ca have said:
- "We have been selling on Amazon.ca for several years now.
Thanks to the ongoing help and support of the dedicated management
team at Amazon, 2016 was a banner year with 220 percent growth in
sales." - Gary Majdell, CEO of
Majdell Group
- "As a company that is a little over a year old, Amazon's
programs and FBA services have helped us achieve a growth rate that
is almost unheard of." - David
Sroka, Global Business Development Director - Art Naturals
- "Amazon.ca provides our business with the opportunity to reach
millions of Canadian customers. We consider Amazon.ca an integral
partner for our brand's continued growth and international
expansion strategy." - Craig Romero,
CEO - OZ Naturals, LLC
2016 Selling on Amazon Milestones:
Amazon.ca
- Sellers on Amazon.ca achieved a record-setting one billion in
sales in 2016.
- Sellers on Amazon.ca achieved over $350
million in sales during November and December.
- Sellers on Amazon.ca saw record-setting units sold in a day on
Cyber Monday, growing 54 percent year-over-year.
- FBA sales on Amazon.ca increased 100 percent over Black Friday
and Cyber Monday.
Marketplace and FBA
- FBA delivered more than two billion items to customers
worldwide.
- Active sellers worldwide using the FBA service grew more than
70 percent.
- Outside the U.S., FBA units shipped grew more than 80
percent.
- Using the FBA service, Amazon sellers from more than 130
different countries around the world fulfilled orders to customers
in 185 countries.
- The Seller Fulfilled Prime program added more than six million
new items that are now Prime eligible across the U.S., U.K.,
France, Germany and Japan.
- Sellers on Amazon that reached $100K sales grew by 30 percent.
- Sellers worldwide have created more than 600,000 new jobs
outside of Amazon.
Holiday Season
- Sellers worldwide received orders for more than 28 million
items on Cyber Monday.
- FBA items shipped worldwide grew more than 50 percent
year-over-year during the holiday season.
- Prime members worldwide ordered millions of items from sellers
in the Seller Fulfilled Prime program offering free two-day or
next-day shipping.
Sponsored Products
- Sponsored Products clicks worldwide grew by more than 150
percent driven by expansion of advertising placements on desktop
and mobile sites.
- The number of sellers worldwide using Sponsored Products grew
more than 100 percent.
- Sponsored Products introduced a new and convenient payment
method, Unified Billing, which allows Sellers to deduct their
advertising spend from sales proceeds.
Business Highlights
- Sellers on Amazon Canada (www.amazon.ca) achieved a
record-setting one billion in sales.
- Amazon Mexico
(www.amazon.com.mx) continued its expansion by enabling more than
20,000 domestic and international sellers to add more than 50
million product offers available to Mexican customers.
- Popular brands that started selling on Amazon included American
Girl, Lands' End and Segway.
- Amazon introduced the Pan-European FBA program allowing sellers
to build their international business by selling across all Amazon
European marketplaces while shipping inventory to just one
destination.
- Sellers on Amazon worldwide used capital from Amazon Lending
loans to grow sales by an estimated $4
billion. The Amazon Lending program offers business loans to
invited sellers on Amazon to help them grow their businesses.
- Amazon hosted more than 300 women-owned businesses in
Seattle for the first-ever Amazon
Marketplace Women's Entrepreneur Conference.
Businesses interested in Selling on Amazon, FBA and Sponsored
Products can visit us for more details at
http://services.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four
principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus,
passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and
long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping,
personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS,
Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon
Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by
Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about.
SOURCE Amazon.ca