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Small Business Days 2021: Amazon sees 6-fold growth in sellers grossing over Rs 1 cr business

Small Business Days 2021: Amazon sees 6-fold growth in sellers grossing over Rs 1 cr business

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Small Business Days 2021: Amazon sees 6-fold growth in sellers grossing over Rs 1 cr business

E-commerce company Amazon India on Sunday said that it has seen six-fold growth in the number of sellers grossing over Rs 1 crore in sales during three-day Small Business Days event. More than 84,000 lakh sellers of around 8.5 lakh sellers on its platform received a single order from customers across the country during the Amazon small business days (SBD) event.



“During the three-day event, more than 84,000 sellers received an order. 68% of these sellers who received an order were from non-metro cities like Kodagu (Karnataka), Dholpur (Rajasthan), Eta (Uttar Pradesh), Giridh (Jharkhand), Una (Himachal Pradesh) and Tinsukia (Assam). 7,500 sellers received their highest single-day sale an increase of over 2.8 times compared to the previous SBD organized in December 2020,” Amazon said in a statement. Last year for SBD in December, Amazon India had over 7 lakh sellers and 55,000 small and medium business firms had received an order.


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The company said that customers from over 20,300 pin codes across the country shopped for products offered by sellers, manufacturers, start-ups and brands, women entrepreneurs, artisans and weavers, and local shops during SBD. “The top-selling products include food processors, organic honey, laptop tables, weighing scales, bluetooth earphones, yoga mats, face masks, jackfruit flour, onion-based hair-care products, among others,” the statement said.

The company said that Over 3,400 new products were added by Karigar sellers and over 100 Karigar sellers saw a growth of 2 fold and over 40 sellers saw a growth of 5 fold in the the segment. “Top-selling art forms under karigar include hand-stitched shoes, Rajasthani kathputli, woodcraft, brass craft, and Bengal handlooms,” the statement said.


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