{"id":4626,"date":"2014-12-22T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2014-12-22T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T11:41:47","slug":"company-snapshot-amazon-com-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2014\/12\/company-snapshot-amazon-com-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: Amazon.com Inc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon.com Inc – Amazon Amazing<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Address:<\/strong>
\n410 Terry Ave N
\nSeattle, WA 98109-5210<\/p>\n

Telephone:<\/strong>
\n206 266-1000<\/p>\n

Internet Homepage:<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.amazon.com<\/p>\n

Total Stores:<\/strong>
\n0; Internet-only Retailer<\/p>\n

Trading Area:<\/strong>
\nWorldwide<\/p>\n

Total Annual Sales:<\/strong>
\n$74,452,000,000<\/p>\n

Senior Executives:<\/strong>
\nJeffrey P. Bezos- Chairman, CEO, President
\nJeffrey M. Blackburn- Senior VP, Business Development
\nAndrew\u00a0R.\u00a0Jassy- Senior VP, Amazon Web Services
\nDiego\u00a0Piacentini- Senior VP, International Consumer Business<\/p>\n

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Amazon\u2019s success, much less its game changing abilities, are all the more improbable when considering the company\u2019s birth as an Internet retail pioneer.\u00a0 At its startup in 1994, Amazon had to literally fundamentally introduce the concept of Internet retailing.\u00a0 They did this as a new age, enormous book retailer.<\/p>\n

Essentially, Amazon had to demonstrate to consumers that they were in for a safe, convenient and thrifty shopping experience.\u00a0 Amazon explained that customers never had to leave home, were being offered at least as wide a variety of books as was available anywhere, at prices lower than competitors could offer, be they brick and mortar (a phrase yet to be in use) or Internet based (there were few upstarts at the outset).\u00a0 At the time, many potential customers were still learning what the Internet was and how to approach it.<\/p>\n

Amazon quickly expanded product offerings to include complimentary products such as prerecorded films and CDs.\u00a0 With rapidly growing consumer acceptance and demand came additional product offerings including electronics and hardware.\u00a0 Ultimately, Amazon expanded through the acquisition of well-run Internet retailers such as Zappos.<\/p>\n

One of Amazon\u2019s greatest innovations to the world of retailing was its creation of the marketplace concept.\u00a0 Here a plethora of independent retailers were able to offer their goods through Amazon\u2019s website.\u00a0 This gave these independents almost instant credibility along with a most popular vehicle through which to sell their products. \u00a0This marketplace concept has been copied by many prominent retailers such as Best Buy.<\/p>\n

Lately Amazon has created headlines with the introduction of their own line of electronics, ranging from tablets to smart phones to smart TV devices.\u00a0 This while longtime competitor Barnes & Noble has cut back on its Nook tablets and handed over much of the production to Samsung.<\/p>\n

Now the world anticipates the introduction of Amazon drones to deliver product to households.\u00a0 With all the company\u2019s success we must not overlook Amazon as an inventor of retail innovations.<\/p>\n

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Amazon.com Inc – Amazon Amazing   Address: 410 Terry Ave N Seattle, WA 98109-5210 Telephone: 206 266-1000 Internet Homepage: http:\/\/www.amazon.com Total Stores: 0; Internet-only Retailer Trading Area: Worldwide Total Annual Sales: $74,452,000,000 Senior Executives: Jeffrey P. Bezos- Chairman, CEO, President Jeffrey M. Blackburn- Senior VP, Business Development Andrew\u00a0R.\u00a0Jassy- Senior VP, Amazon Web Services Diego\u00a0Piacentini- Senior… Continue reading Company Snapshot: Amazon.com Inc<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discount-specialty","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}