
US e-commerce big Amazon.com has opened a walk-in centre in South Africa that it says will assist its impartial sellers entice extra clients and increase their companies, whereas it additionally seeks to realize market share.
For Amazon, which is striving to meet up with market chief Takealot, owned by Naspers, the centre can enhance its product vary, growing potential income.
“The most important factor is product breadth for our clients. We simply wish to have a great deal of merchandise that folks can purchase,” Robert Koen, MD of Amazon sub-Saharan Africa, stated in an interview.
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 variety of companies, corresponding to on-the-spot registration to promote on Amazon.co.za, coaching, product imaging and cataloguing help, and delivery and logistics help.
The e-retailer launched in South Africa final yr Might, its first sub-Saharan African nation.
Talking on efficiency in the course of the vacation season, Koen stated: “I feel This autumn (the fourth quarter) was truly very encouraging. We exceeded all of the targets that we set for ourselves.”
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He added first-time buyers had been returning to its on-line retailer and had given good suggestions on the pace of supply. — (c) 2025 Reuters
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