The All-New Internet Retailer Top 500: The Growth Is Not All At the Top

The data from Internet Retailer's just-published 2016 Top 500 Guide® show that the fastest-growing online retailers are midsized, mostly web-only niche players ranked 201-300.

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Apr 12, 2016, 08:30 ET

CHICAGO, April 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The 500 largest web merchants in the U.S. and Canada account for 84% of all e-retailing sales in the U.S., according to Internet Retailer's newly published 2016 Top 500 Guide®. Now in its 13th edition, the 352-page 2016 Top 500 Guide® ranks the 500 leading e-retailers in the U.S. and Canada based on their annual web sales. Data from the Guide show that the fastest-growing web merchants today are those ranked between 201-300: They're mostly niche merchants, selling only online, and collectively they grew their web sales by 15.5% to $10.6 billion in 2015.

The 2016 Top 500 Guide, widely acclaimed as "the bible of e-commerce," includes more metrics than ever before. For the first time U.S. e-retailers are ranked by a Performance Score that assesses their online successes vis-a-vis their direct competitors as well as against the U.S. e-commerce market overall.
The 2016 Top 500 Guide, widely acclaimed as "the bible of e-commerce," includes more metrics than ever before. For the first time U.S. e-retailers are ranked by a Performance Score that assesses their online successes vis-a-vis their direct competitors as well as against the U.S. e-commerce market overall.

The fastest-growing merchant, according to the data in the 2016 Top 500 Guide®, is Leesa, a web-only mattress retailer. The company grew 2015 web sales 20,257.1% % to $28.5 million, landing the No. 499 spot in the Top 500 rankings. Leesa is one of 26 web merchants that are completely new to Internet Retailer's annual e-commerce rankings. Number 1 once again is Amazon.com Inc., which increased its online sales by 16.3% to an Internet Retailer-estimated $92.4 billion.

In addition to regular rankings of the Top 500 by annual web sales, the 2016 edition features an Internet Retailer Performance Score that assesses each Top 500 e-retailer's online success vis-à-vis its direct competitors as well as the U.S. e-commerce market overall. The database version of the Top 500 Guide® provides 276 data points for each retailer, and the print/digital edition of the Guide has 71 per profile, including compound annual growth rate, web traffic, solutions providers used across 30 categories and other key metrics.

For research information, contact: Stefany Zaroban, director of research, Internet Retailer, at 312.572.6282 or [email protected].

For media inquiries, contact: Anna Applegate, corporate marketing communications, Internet Retailer, at 312.572.6264 or [email protected]. 

ABOUT INTERNET RETAILER®

The flagship brand of Chicago-based e-commerce publisher Vertical Web Media, Internet Retailer® provides comprehensive e-commerce business intelligence through print and digital channels, including a monthly magazine, several research guides, web sites, online databases, webinars and e-mail newsletters. Internet Retailer, launched in March 1999, is the largest e-retailing monthly magazine with 44,500 subscribers. InternetRetailer.com is the most-visited informational web site in e-commerce, attracting more than 205,000 unique monthly visitors.

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