Along with many product categories, Amazon has significantly incurred in fashion and
apparel, a
trending category in eCommerce today. Product Data Scrape researched to get insights on Amazon
on
offers on fashion products in the US.
Since our research report in March, we have observed seismic changes in the categories at both
product
type and brand levels.
Research Process
We collected our analytics on over 1 Million clothing products for both men and women from
the
Amazon platform in 2 steps.
In the first step, we recognized all brands that consist of the top 500 featured products in
both the
clothing category of men and women on Amazon fashion. For example, the top listed products
of men's
t-shirts, and the top listed products of women's tees and tops, etc. We assumed that
these top 500
products are among 95% of Amazon's clothing sales. This represents around 2800 different
brands.
Then, we collected the data for all the product listings within the men's and
women's clothing categories
for every brand among those 2800. This gave us around 1.15 million individual products. This
huge list is
the foundation of our report highlights.
Sharp Rise In Third-Party Seller Listing
We spotted around 1.15 million products across clothing, with a considerable hike of about
30 percent
in the last six months.
The third-party sellers are the drivers of this sharp rise in the listing. However,
according to the report,
there was only a 2 percent rise in the first-party seller listings during the same duration
compared to the
third-party listings with a 30+ percent rise.
Additionally, Amazon just listed 11% of all fashion and clothing products on Sale.
Third-party sellers
offered the remaining portion of clothing products with the indication of the strong open
marketplace of
Amazon.
The Major Fashion Brand Shift On Amazon Is On The Way
In only six months recently, most of the brand shift in Amazon fashion is done. Nike's
listing of around
45 percent plummeted and was driven in the third-party listing after the partnership of
Amazon with
Nike by a slum, as per the Quartz story. Here, Nike's first-party listing for clothing
could have
compensated for the decline due to limited growth.
Gildan's rise in all the product listings is pushed due to the raised first-party
listings at a low base. The
agreement of Calvin Klein to product assortment with Amazon helped them to appear in the
double-
digit percentage in the first-party listings for fashion products on Amazon.
Further, Aeropostale saw a fall due to its third-party listing. This brand is not there on
Amazon as a
seller.
Amazon Is Reforming Its Clothing Portfolio And Turning The Focus On Suits From Sportswear
As the fashion and apparel footprint of Amazon matures rapidly, it is reforming its
portfolio, considering
the potential growth for formal categories like suits away from sportswear. We observed
about 98.6% of
the hike in women's suits and blazers compared to men's sports coats and suits,
listing about 52 percent
between February to September when we analyzed.
Generic Non-Brands Are Appearing In Top 25 Brand List
In the last six months, a few generic brands with low prices have penetrated Amazon
listings. Four
unknown brands secured the top ranks in the list of top brands on Amazon Fashion. The brands
WSPLYSPJY, Confy, and Cruiize seem to ship products to their customers directly from China.
Amazon Seems To Be Implementing The Strategic Pivot
The fashion offering of Amazon is rapidly maturing. We observed considerable growth in the
listings
count for more categories. The restructuring in the third-party listing by Nike, along with
first-party
listings of Gildan and Calvin Klein, seems to be driven by a partnership with Amazon.
Parallelly, generic fashion items with cheap prices shipped orders from china have inundated
the ranking
of most listed products. Here, third-party listings acquired around 90 percent of
Amazon's fashion
offerings.
While Amazon Fashion buyers enjoy broader choices compared to their choices before the last
six
months, we firmly trust a first-party listing to grow eligible products for prime delivery
in the coming
time. This technique could give strength to the fashion category of Amazon in the long term
as a
shopping platform.
If you want eCommerce data from the web for your product listing market research, pricing
strategy,
and retail analytics, do check out our website. You can also contact the product data scrape
team at any
time.
