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January 16, 2025
U.S. e-commerce large Amazon.com opened on Thursday a walk-in centre in South Africa that it says will assist its impartial sellers appeal to extra prospects and develop their companies, whereas it additionally seeks to achieve market share.
For Amazon – which is striving to meet up with market-leader Takealot, owned by Naspers – the centre can improve its product vary, rising potential income.”The biggest thing is product breadth for our customers. We just want to have loads of products that people can buy,” Robert Koen, Managing Director of Amazon Sub-Saharan Africa advised Reuters after the launch occasion.
Greater than 60% of gross sales in Amazon’s shops globally are from impartial sellers – most of that are small- and medium-sized companies.
Situated at Amazon’s head workplace in Cape City, the centre provides native sellers a spread of providers, similar to on-the-spot registration to promote on Amazon.co.za, coaching, product imaging and cataloguing help, and delivery and logistics help.
The Seattle retailer launched in South Africa final yr Could, its first Sub-saharan African nation.
Talking on efficiency throughout the vacation season, Koen mentioned: “I think Q4 (fourth quarter) was actually very encouraging. We exceeded all the goals that we set for ourselves.”
He added first-time customers had been returning to its on-line retailer and had given good suggestions on the pace of supply.
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