Amazon Handmade is a big hit in Mexico! It will open a "Made in Mexico" store

Amazon Handmade, an Amazon-owned craft platform, recently announced that it will open a "Made in Mexico" themed store this month. The platform was launched in Mexico in 2017 and achieved an astonishing 278% growth last year.

Currently, there are more than 3,000 artisans selling more than 130,000 handmade Mexican products on Amazon Handmade, 12% of which are traditional Mexican crafts.

Mexico is an internationally recognized country with huge handicraft resources. Almost every state has its own unique handicrafts and traditional industries passed down from generation to generation. The "Made in Mexico" store will provide handicrafts divided by product type.

In Mexico, the purchase of handicrafts accounts for 18.7% of the total expenditure of consumers on cultural products and services. According to INEGI, in 2019, the handicraft industry contributed 138.291 billion pesos to the country's GDP, accounting for 19.1% of the cultural sector's creation; 489,890 paid jobs were created, which accounts for 35.1% of the positions employed in the entire cultural sector.

Any craftsman who wants to join Amazon Handmade will be able to enjoy benefits such as not having to pay professional monthly fees and being able to create their own product listing pages within the category.

“We are very pleased with the success of Amazon Handmade and the growing number of producers joining the market, ” said the head of Amazon Mexico . “This category is a great opportunity to open up international markets for artisans, small businesses and cooperatives who want to grow their business.”

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