Empowering Small Businesses
We invest in the success of entrepreneurs, artisans, and small businesses selling in our Amazon Store. When they thrive, our customers benefit from the products and services they offer. Small businesses selling on Amazon in the UK recorded over £3.8 billion in export sales in 2023.
Around 60% of Amazon’s physical product sales come from third-party sellers, growing faster than Amazon’s own retail sales.
Since 2000, Amazon has made its virtual shelf space available so small and medium businesses can reach hundreds of millions of customers, build their brands, and grow their business. Amazon’s investments in support logistics, tools, services, programmes, and people to foster the growth of our SME sellers. The result continues to pay off for sellers and customers. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) continue to account for more than half of everything we sell in our online stores, and we are always innovating to help them grow their businesses — as a result, their sales continue to outpace our first-party sales. More than ever, we admire our small business partners’ entrepreneurial spirit and drive to innovate, and Amazon will continue to do everything we can to support them.
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There are around 100,000 UK small and medium-sized businesses selling on Amazon, many of which are located outside of London. Small businesses selling on Amazon in the UK recorded over £3.8 billion in export sales in 2023. -
The Innovation Accelerator is an exclusive initiative that invites small businesses into Amazon’s operations to understand first-hand how we have scaled. In turn, it provides small businesses in the UK with free training and unique best practice on how to innovate and grow. -
More than 30,000 of Amazon’s European selling partners have already used one or more of Amazon’s generative AI listing capabilities.
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