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The first country you choose doesn’t just set your launch date. It sets your logistics footprint, your working capital cycle and your compliance load for everything that follows.
Compliance failures rarely surface at launch. They surface six months later, when cash is tighter, growth has accelerated, and unwinding the mistake costs more than getting it right would have.
Ads don’t kill margin overseas. The supply chain does, longer lead times, more customs exposure, more fulfilment nodes, more currency movement, all multiplying the moment you cross a border.
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Brands rarely fail to grow. They fail by growing too early, pouring spend and ambition onto governance that isn’t structured, logistics that can’t absorb it, and channels that were never sequenced. Once Explore...
Most brands don’t lose internationally because they picked the wrong market. They lose because they never built a roadmap at all, so expansion becomes a series of launches and reactive fixes...
Amazon handed prep work back to sellers, and the consequences of getting it wrong land on you rather than on them. A carton that arrives wrong gets refused, refused stock sits somewhere earning nothing, and a launch date moves.
FBM keeps the things worth keeping. Your packaging, customer data & margin. It also puts Amazon’s performance metrics directly on your dispatch times, which is a comfortable trade at home and a much harder one from four thousand miles away.
On a marketplace, a slow delivery is the marketplace’s fault. On your own store it is yours. The box that arrives, the day it arrives and how easy it is to send back are all part of what someone bought, and they decide whether a first order becomes a second one.
Treated as a cost, a return is written off twice, once on the refund and again on the unit. Treated as inventory, a lot of it goes back on sale. What decides which of those happens is how quickly the unit gets looked at and how far it had to travel to be looked at.
Stock held inside the market it sells into arrives as a domestic delivery. No customs event on the order, and nothing for your customer to settle before the courier hands the parcel over. Ours sits in the UK, the Netherlands and the US, which covers...
End-to-end playbooks for cross-border growth
Pre/post-event intelligence tied to EU expansion
Supplements and EU health regulations
Cosmetics and personal care expansion
Sports & outdoor brand expansion into Europe
Selling clothing brands into European markets
CE marking, WEEE & compliance in Europe
Amazon, Otto, Zalando & European strategy
Market-by-market guides, incl. size & sector data
VAT, customs & import tax across EU markets
Selling requirements and extended producer responsibility rules
Warehousing, fulfilment & cross-border shipping
Prosper Show is an established conference built specifically for Amazon and marketplace sellers, not general ecommerce. It brings together growing sellers, agencies and service providers in Las Vegas each spring to focus on scaling operations, protecting margin and finding the next growth channel.
If you're an established six- or seven-figure Amazon seller, this event puts you in a room full of people asking the same question: what's the next growth channel? That holds even without a dedicated Europe track on the agenda.
Prosper Show is built around one type of attendee: the operator running a real Amazon or marketplace business who needs to grow revenue without giving up margin. Sessions and hallway conversations lean practical, covering advertising costs, supply chain risk and where to find growth once a single marketplace stops scaling. For US brands eyeing Europe, this is a room full of people asking the same question you are.
There's no dedicated international track, but the diversification-focused agenda naturally surfaces European expansion in seller-to-seller conversation, even without formal programming.
Even without a formal Europe track, the seller profile and diversification mindset here make European expansion a natural topic of conversation.
Six and seven figure Amazon sellers looking to diversify beyond a single marketplace or region.
Founders weighing whether the next stage of growth comes from a new channel, a new product line, or a new geography.
Teams supporting seller clients on advertising, logistics, and operations who need to speak knowledgeably about international growth.
Companies building for the Amazon seller ecosystem who want to understand where their customers are expanding next.
Four tracks anchor the confirmed agenda.
Sessions on reducing reliance on a single channel and building a more resilient revenue base. Relevant to any seller thinking about geographic diversification as well as channel diversification.
Practical sessions on rising acquisition costs and protecting margin as competition increases. A recurring theme for sellers weighing whether a new market offers cheaper growth than squeezing more out of the US.
Covers fulfillment, inventory planning and supply chain resilience, all directly relevant to a brand weighing whether to hold stock in a new region.
The unstructured value of Prosper Show: peer conversations with sellers who have already taken the leap into new marketplaces or regions.
Preview themes to expect at Prosper Show 2027, based on how the event and the wider seller community have been trending.
Rising US advertising costs and marketplace concentration risk keep pushing sellers to look outward. Many established Amazon sellers now treat a second region, not just a second channel, as the real diversification move.
Amazon's European marketplaces are a natural next step for sellers already comfortable with the Amazon operating model. The operational question is less about demand and more about VAT, compliance and where to hold stock.
As US acquisition costs climb, sellers are looking at less saturated markets for cheaper growth. Europe is regularly cited as one of the more attractive options for brands already proven on Amazon.
Prosper Show has not confirmed a dedicated international expansion track for 2027. Despite that, this remains one of the closest audience matches on the calendar for brands considering European expansion.
Prosper Show is a US domestic event, but the conversations happening there are increasingly about where growth comes from next. If you're an established Amazon seller doing $1M-$50M in revenue, the room is full of people asking the exact question you should be asking: what happens when US growth flattens out.
For sellers weighing where the next stage of growth comes from, Europe is a real answer, not just a talking point.
The Netherlands offers the fastest VAT registration lead time in the EU at just 3-4 weeks, compared to 8-14 weeks in the UK.
3-4weeksUK VAT registration becomes mandatory once a seller's annual turnover crosses £90,000, a threshold every seller expanding into the UK needs to track.
£90,000annual turnoverAmazon's Pan-EU program stores stock across 7 core countries, and stock landing in any one of them can trigger a local VAT registration obligation.
7core marketsProsper Show draws established Amazon and marketplace sellers doing six and seven figures in revenue, along with the agencies, software vendors and logistics providers that serve them.
Yes. Most attendees are US-only sellers looking for the next growth lever, and European expansion is one of the more common topics raised in seller-to-seller conversations on the show floor.
There is no dedicated Europe track, but sessions on diversifying sales channels and reducing dependence on a single marketplace regularly touch on expanding into new regions including the EU and UK.
Amazon is not automatic across Europe. Local marketplaces often lead: Bol dominates the Netherlands, Zalando leads fashion, Allegro leads Poland. Stock entering a marketplace's local fulfillment triggers VAT obligations there.
You register for VAT in each country where you hold stock, and charge VAT on sales to consumers there. Schemes like the Import One-Stop Shop simplify some cross-border sales, but holding stock in a country creates a registration obligation regardless.
Assembling a VAT agent, logistics provider, compliance advisor and marketplace consultant separately creates coordination cost and gaps. A single expansion partner runs it as one operation. Expandly works this way, using the Global Expansion Pathway (GEP™) as the method.
If Prosper Show has you thinking about where growth comes from next, Europe deserves a serious look.
Expandly runs European expansion for US ecommerce brands through the Global Expansion Pathway (GEP™), covering VAT, compliance, and fulfillment out of our Netherlands warehouse. We're happy to put together a briefing ahead of the show so you walk in already knowing your first-market options. Want to talk through what your first European market could look like?