User blog comment:Ajkpinky/The woes and expenses of a Western fan/@comment-5665682-20160624195756/@comment-5665682-20160627021556

It's not that they don't have the money to produce merch only, it's just that basically, as EmbraceEvil pointed out, ALL of those western companies have Vocaloid as a second-layer product. Voctro Labs is now focused in REVIVOS and other synthesizers, Zero-G sells sample packs and synth instruments mainly and PowerFX is focused on DAWs and sound packs.

CFM and AHSoftware basically work thanks to their Vocaloid's sells, while Noboru-san from Internet Co. has already stated that VOCALOID is not their main priority when developing products. YAMAHA is, well, YAMAHA. They sell many, many other profitable stuff beyond Vocaloid so they don't have to worry about "promoting" their software.

So yeah, it's more like they aren't interested in developing merch, even if they had the money to do that. Let's not forget that, at the end of the day, Vocaloid is just another piece of software, creating merch of the mascot is something very uncommon that only Japan does constantly because of their well-known mascot culture and enthusiasm.

PD: Voctro Labs, PowerFX and Zero-G are kinda sponsoring the VOCAMERICA thing since they gave official permission to Akiglancy to use the names and characters for the concert.