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Can Amazon Ever Crack the Fashion Code?

November 7, 2018 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

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Amazon is working hard to sell its own private label fashion brands, but success isn’t coming easy to what could be a potentially profitable business. Amazon’s women’s clothing brands are doing especially poorly, with “more than 4 of 5 Amazon women’s clothing brands selling fewer than 100 items per month,” says Bloomberg’s Spencer Soper.

Soper writes that a report by Jungle Scout finds poor performance among Amazon’s apparel brands:

The report shows that Seattle-based Amazon’s apparel brands aren’t benefiting from consumers’ greater interest in buying clothing online. Online sales made up about 27 percent of all U.S. apparel purchases in 2017, up from almost 21 percent in 2015, according to Internet Retailer.

Shoppers are ready to embrace some Amazon-branded products — like batteries, phone chargers and baby wipes — but not others. Amazon devices like Echo smart speakers, Fire tablets and Fire TV streaming devices make up more than 60 percent of the sales of the company’s brands.

Amazon has more than 120 brands, about 100 of which were introduced over the past two years, according to TJI Research. Some brands are directly tied to the Amazon name, such as Amazon Basics merchandise and Amazon Essentials clothing, which includes pull-over fleeces, T-shirts and underwear. Other private label brands, including most of its other fashion lines, don’t include the Amazon name.

Amazon is seeking to improve its clothing sales with strategies such as introducing a try-before-you buy program last year for its Prime members, which allows customers to order clothing, keep and pay for what they want and ship the rest back. Amazon also entered a partnership with Kohl’s Corp. last year to let customers make returns at select Kohl’s locations.

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Jeremy Jones, CFA, CFP® is the Director of Research at Young Research & Publishing Inc., and the Chief Investment Officer at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. was ranked #10 in CNBC's 2019 Financial Advisor Top 100. Jeremy is also a contributing editor of youngresearch.com.
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