Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
The average small business selling through Amazon made £300,000 in 2020, an increase of 50 per cent year on year.
In total, UK small businesses sold 750m products through Amazon last year, up by more than one third.
The number of small businesses selling through Amazon increased by 20 per cent to 65,000, as people shopped online during pandemic lockdowns.
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Indeed, more that 1,000 UK businesses reached £1m in sales selling through Amazon last year.
And another 14,000 SMEs generated more than £100,000 worth of sales through the internet giant.
Amazon announced that around 60 per cent of all physical product sales on its UK store were from independent sellers, most of whom were SMEs.
And those small businesses have created 175,000 jobs across the UK fulfilling those Amazon sales.
Some 40 per cent of small businesses selling on Amazon were based in London and the southeast of England, and the five most popular product lines according to the 2021 UK SME Community Report included homewares, health, toys, clothes and beauty.
Exporters also thrived on the platform, Amazon said, seeing their collective overseas revenues rise by 27 per cent