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Background of Amazon.com, Inc

  • Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate technology company which focuses specifically on e-commerce website along with cloud computing, digital streaming and innovations pertaining to Artificial Intelligence.

  • Amazon.com, Inc. is based in Seattle and has a rich history dating back to 1994 when its founder, Jeff Bezos, chose the location of where it would be headquartered due to technical talent seeing that Microsoft was also based there.

  • Amazon.com, Inc. originally started out as a marketplace where books could be sold, but later expansions saw the sale of electronics, software, video games, apparel, furniture and more.

  • By 1997, Amazon.com, Inc. had gone public with the sale of music and videos commencing in 1998. During this time, operations were begun on an international scale through the acquisition of online book sellers in both the UK and Germany.

  • In 1999, Amazon.com, Inc. started selling video games, consumer electronics and a vast portfolio of other products.

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) was started in 2002 with the purpose of providing data on Web site popularity in addition to patterns pertaining to internet traffic and additional statistics to marketers as well as certain developers.

  • Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, was made available in 2006 and this expanded the AWS portfolio significantly.

  • Kiva Systems was bought over by Amazon.com, Inc. in 2012 with the aim at automating the inventory-management business followed by the purchasing of Whole Foods Market’s supermarket supply chain in 2017.

  • By 2015, Amazon.com, Inc. has already surpassed Walmart by becoming the most valued and valuable retailer in the US by market capitalization alone.

  • Amazon.com, Inc. oversees a high-value, extensive and vast product portfolio of consumer-to-customer, business-to-consumer, and business-to-business sales through online web portals.

  • The product portfolio also includes the provision of electronic payment services, shopping search engines as well as cloud computing services along with video streaming, music, and audiobook downloads, if only to name a few.

  • In addition to this, Amazon.com, Inc. offers a vast portfolio of products and services that include, but is not limited to AmazonFresh, Amazon Prime, Alexa, Appstore, Kindle, Kindle Store, Amazon Studios, and several others.

  • Amazon.com, Inc. has a variety of subsidiaries that include, but is not limited to Amazon Maritime, Audible.com, Brilliance Auto, ComiXology, Goodreads, Twitch and Whole Foods Market, just to name a few.

  • In 1997, Amazon.com, Inc. had two fulfilment centres, one in Seattle and one in Delaware with several types of distribution facilities that consist of fulfilment centres, sortation centres, delivery stations and more.

  • To date, here are approximately 75 fulfilment centres along with 25 sortation centres which cumulatively employs 125,000 employees.

  • In 2025 the total staff compliment for Amazon.com, Inc. reported was approximately 840,000.

  • Today, Amazon.com, Inc. is the largest retail and e-commerce company along with hosting the largest B2B, C2C, and B2C marketplaces globally.

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  • Amazon.com, Inc. forms part of the four largest technology companies worldwide along with Google, Apple, and Facebook. Amazon.com, Inc is considered to be one of the most influential economic as well as cultural forces on a global scale.

  • Amazon.com, Inc. is well known not only for its technological innovation and mass scale, but it is also known to cause disruption of well-established industries that compete in the same field.

  • It singularly hosts the largest online marketplace in addition to products and services pertaining to AI assistant providers and a cloud computing platform.

  • When judging according to revenue, Amazon.com, Inc. is by far the largest internet company in the world and the second largest private employer in the continental US.

  • In addition to all that it provides, offers, and achieves, it is considered to be one of the companies in the world which is most valued amidst its competitors and peers.

  • Despite various controversies in addition to criticism for technological surveillance overreach and a hyper-competitive and demanding work culture, to only name a few issues, Amazon.com, Inc. still maintains its throne above its competitors.

  • Through the years, Amazon.com, Inc. has partnered with several merchants which includes, but is not limited to Toys “R” us, Borders Group, DC Comics, the United Postal Service and more recently it has partnered with Apple Inc. to sell selected products.

  • With the emergence and spread of Covid-19, Amazon.com, Inc has had a surge in demand as shoppers have flooded the website with orders on both essential and non-essential goods which have adversely affected deliveries and caused delays and logistic bottlenecks.

  • In March, Amazon.com, Inc. had made the decision to prioritize the shipment of both household items and that of medical supplies at the warehouses while simultaneously limiting who could sell goods such as face masks and sanitizers.

  • In more recent weeks, merchants were allowed to start shipping in nonessential items, but the limitation was still strict regarding the quantity of items in these new shipments.

  • Amazon.com, Inc. stocks have skyrocketed despite the ongoing Covid-19 with stocks hitting an all-time high in recent weeks, pushing the company worth up to $1.1 trillion.

  • In February Amazon.com, Inc.’s stock closed the price at $2,170.22 per share and in early April, it was notched up by 5.3% to $2,283.32 and as of the 8th of May 2025, share prices are $2,379.61 with forecasted increases.

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  • Amazon.com, Inc. trades its shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ) under the stock symbol AMZN and it forms part of the NASDAQ-100, S&P-100 and S&P-500 components.

  • An analysis on the market performance for the first quarter of 2025, which ended in April, indicated a 16% increase in cash flow to US$39.7 billion with free cash flow increasing to $24.3 billion and Net sales amounting to $75.5 billion, showing an increase of 26%.

  • Despite these increases, there were notable decreases in operating income, which amounted to $4.0 billion and a decreased Net income of $2.5 billion with improvements forecasted for quarters to come despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Data from the analysis should be weighed against forecasted performance during this pandemic, but for now, prices on shares show a steady increase, so shareholders who buy or sell shares should expect lucrative dividends and returns.

  • Amazon.com, Inc. is putting in conceited efforts to ensure the continued health and safety of its employees and contractors worldwide with around 150 significant process changes in the operations network across the globe.

  • To ensure that customers are still receiving top rated service, Amazon.com, Inc. has prioritized the stocking and delivery on specifically essential items to ensure that deliveries happen efficiently.

  • Due to price gouging on a large scale, Amazon.com, Inc. has removed over one million offers from stores in addition to suspending over 10,000 selling accounts which violated the fair-pricing policy and standards to which Amazon.com, Inc. strictly holds itself.

  • Sector

    Retail and e-commerce

  • Industry

    Technology

  • Sub industry

    E-payments, Search Engines, Cloud Computing

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