Why Amazon brands are choosing to go public
Episode description
Bit by bit, Amazon sellers are eyeing the public markets. I read this article written by By Michael Waters. "Although Amazon’s third-party marketplace has been around since 2000, Amazon sellers have historically been far too small to reasonably consider going public. But as Amazon’s overall customer base ballooned this past year, so did the size of its top sellers. According to Amazon’s most recent earnings report, seller services — the amount that third-party sellers pay Amazon in commissions, fulfillment fees and so on — grew 57% year over year in 2020. Per Jungle Scout, 2% of Amazon sellers now boast lifetime profits of over $10 million. The third-party vendor Pharmapacks, for instance, brings in at least $250 million in annual sales."
Read more of this article here: https://www.modernretail.co/platforms/why-amazon-brands-are-choosing-to-go-public/