Amazon Sellers Account for 44 Percent of Units Sold
The more than 2 million active sellers on Amazon accounted for 44% of paid units sold on the marketplace in the first three months of the year – up about 400 basis points from last […]
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Amazon Benefits from Merchant Momentum, Analyst Says
Amazon is benefitting from third-party merchants, who are increasingly adopting its FBA fulfillment service, according to Colin Sebastian of Wall Street firm Robert W. Baird. Baird’s Q1 survey of Amazon product selection suggests accelerating growth […]
Amazon Grows Net Sales 15 Percent in Q4
Amazon grew net sales by 15% to $29.33 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014 compared to the Q4-2013, or 18% excluding the impact of foreign exchange. Net sales were up 22% in North America. […]
Analyst Sees Solid Growth in Amazon Product Selection
Amazon is experiencing positive growth trends in product selection as well as marketplace/FBA adoption, with no evidence of a slowdown, according to Baird analyst Colin Sebastian. The results of Baird’s eighth quarterly inventory survey showed […]
Amazon Merchant Growth Gets Boost from Chinese Sellers
Sellers sold over 2 billion items worldwide on Amazon in 2014, a record amount. To help put that in perspective, Amazon revealed a year ago that its third-party sellers sold “more than a billion” units […]
Analyst Chides Amazon over Q3 Performance
Amazon grew third-quarter sales 20% to $20.58 billion, making eBay Marketplace’s 7% growth seem anemic by comparison. But Amazon stayed humble thanks to what the Wall Street Journal called its largest quarterly loss in 14 years. The […]
Amazon Sales Up in Second Quarter But Investments Lead to Net Loss
Amazon grew sales 23% to $19.34 billion in the second quarter of 2014, or 22% excluding foreign exchange. It experienced a net loss of $126 million, compared with net loss of $7 million in second […]
Why Amazon Is Secretive About Its Annual Meeting
Once a year, top executives at publicly traded companies take an hour to talk directly to the people who invested money in the firms – shareholders. But Amazon on Wednesday demonstrated its well known obsession […]
Amazon Q4 Shows Growth Rates Are Slowing
Amazon showed strong year-over-year growth in the fourth quarter of 2013, but its rate of growth is actually slowing in some key metrics. Take a look at the numbers, and see what analysts had to say. Net […]
Amazon Releases Q4 Earnings, Drops Bombshell about Prime Fees
Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak revealed big news on Thursday – the company will raise the cost of Amazon Prime membership in the U.S. by somewhere between $20 – $40. The current fee is $79 and […]