A must-have for statistics fans is the annual edition of the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide.
The 2008 edition is hot off the presses with its list of the top 500 American online retailers rated according to revenue volume.
The top 10 are available online: market leader Amazon grew another 40%. Apple, after a 2-fold increase of its revenue, jumped from number 15 to number 7 and bumped SonyStyle out of the Top 10 elite.
A few statistical highlights:
- In 2007, fully 21 companies recorded online retail sales of $1 billion or more compared to just 17 the prior year.
- While the specialty/non-apparel segment sector grew fastest online with a 47% growth rate in 2007, the runner-up was not far behind. Online jewelers grew their combined sales by 36% to just over $1 billion from $772 million in 2007.
- The merchants in the largest category (in terms of numbers of merchants) in the Top 500 Guide—apparel/accessories—continued to show that shoppers have no qualms with buying fashions online. Combined 2007 web sales for this group rose by 24% to $12.4 billion.
More in their press release:
"The Top 500 Guide includes 148 e-retail businesses that are owned or operated by store-based retail chains, 82 by catalog and direct-marketing firms, 51 by consumer branded manufacturers and 219 by web-only retailers."
Originally posted in German by Jochen Krisch, translated by Jason Soo.
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