Shopping Local on Amazon: More than 300,000 U.S.-based Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Started Selling on Amazon in 2017
January 10 2018 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Fulfillment by Amazon shipped billions of items
for small and medium-sized businesses worldwide in 2017
Half of items purchased by customers on Amazon
are from small and medium-sized businesses selling through the
Amazon Marketplace
(NASDAQ: AMZN) – More than 300,000 U.S.-based small and
medium-sized businesses joined the Amazon Marketplace in 2017, and
SMBs on Amazon sold billions of items to customers around the
world. Half of the items sold on Amazon worldwide are from small
and medium-sized businesses that offer their products through the
Amazon Marketplace, many of whom also choose to use Fulfillment by
Amazon (FBA) to tap into Amazon’s global logistics network and make
their items Prime eligible. In 2017, FBA shipped billions of items
for small and medium-sized businesses worldwide.
“More and more small and medium-sized businesses are choosing to
join the Amazon Marketplace and sell right alongside Amazon to
reach customers around the world. Entrepreneurs and small business
owners are succeeding on Amazon – they sell half the products that
Amazon customers buy, and more than 140,000 small and medium-sized
businesses surpassed $100,000 in sales on Amazon in 2017,” said
Peter Faricy, Vice President for Amazon Marketplace. “These
businesses are reinvesting in their local communities – creating
jobs and supporting local suppliers. We are proud of how the Amazon
Marketplace helps empower so many small businesses, not just in the
US, but around the world."
“Since selling on Amazon, we’ve been able to grow our business
from three to 40 employees, right here in Delray Beach, Florida,”
said Michael Dudley, managing director of Salon’s Choice. “We
recently launched on Amazon in the U.K., and are now shipping
thousands of orders a day through Fulfillment by Amazon to
customers around the world.”
“We launched on Amazon two years ago and are now operating in
more than seven countries around the world,” said Phil Williams,
CEO and founder of Coffee Gator. “2017 was our biggest year on
Amazon, with sales growing by more than 100 percent year-over-year,
and we expect 2018 to be even bigger.”
Small and medium-sized businesses on Amazon come from every
state in the U.S. and more than 130 countries around the world. In
2017, customers ordered billions of items from small and
medium-sized businesses on Amazon, including more than one billion
items during the holiday season.
2017 Marketplace Facts:
- More than 300,000 SMBs in the U.S.
started selling on Amazon.
- More than 140,000 SMBs selling on
Amazon surpassed $100,000 in annual sales.
- Fulfillment by Amazon shipped billions
of items worldwide.
- Amazon Lending surpassed $3 billion
lent to small businesses on Amazon since the program started in
2011.
- Amazon Handmade expanded to encompass
10 categories offering customers more than one million handcrafted
items from thousands of artisans and small business owners across
all 50 states and more than 60 countries.
- During the Holiday Season, customers
ordered more than 1 billion items from SMBs on Amazon, with more
than 140 million items ordered between Thanksgiving and Cyber
Monday.
Businesses interested in selling on Amazon can visit
http://services.amazon.com. For many more stories of inventors and
small business owners who are transforming their lives and pursuing
their dreams with Amazon, check out Transformations.
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