Amazon: what is it

Jeff Bezos, 30 -year -old entrepreneur, founded his company Amazon.com With the project to sell books on the Internet. He is looking for a name that starts with the letter A to appear among the first in alphabetical research, and retains Amazon to evoke “The largest bookstore in the world”, Like the Amazon, the largest river in the world.

Amazon

Amazon East An online sales site literally Hundreds of thousands of products in categories as diverse as Culture, DIY, there beauty, clothing, leisure, food, furnishings or computer science, to name a few. Amazon also offers services video or musical streaming, the virtual assistant Alexa, and premium service Amazon Prime which has more than 200 million subscribers worldwide.

Created In 1994 by Jeff Bezos, So 30 years old, Amazon.com is An online book sale site, thought as The largest bookstore in the world. It gradually opens to other products and becomes one of the web giants, Place between Facebook and Microsoft in the famous acronym Gafam.

The company is also the object many criticisms relative under working conditions of its employees, to Tax fraud, wrong caused to small shops and at the environment, to the destruction of unsold and data collection without authorization Prerequisite for users.

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To whom Amazon belongs ?

The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos (1st world fortune in 2021), is the majority shareholder (9.81%) of his company. Follow the investment fund The Vanguard Group, Inc. (6.21%) and Mackenzie t Bezos (3.42%).

Important dates for Amazon

Jeff Bezos, 30 -year -old entrepreneur, founded his company Amazon.com With the project to sell books on the Internet. He is looking for a name that starts with the letter A to appear among the first in alphabetical research, and retains Amazon to evoke “The largest bookstore in the world”, Like the Amazon, the largest river in the world.

The Amazon site.com is posted on July 16.
Opening of the French subsidiary.
Amazon launches A Market Place open to private and professional sellers.
Launch of the on -demand video platform Amazon Video.

Amazon launches his reader Amazon Kindle. Online online of the Musical Sale and Streaming Platform Amazon Music.

Amazon offers its service 3D printing. The company is also launching on the market smartphones with the Fire Phone But failure is such that its marketing ceases the following year.

The project Amazon delivery Prime by Drône, Initiated two years earlier, is refused by the Federal Aviation Administration. The site opens a market place of craft products.

Amazon Go, the first Fund -free food supermarket Open in Seattle, next to the company’s headquarters, and tested for 1 year by Amazon employees, opens to the general public. Other stores will be opened later (Seattle, New York, Chicago, San Francisco).

The containment implemented to brake the Pandemic of COVID-19 benefits Amazon who sees his global turnover increase by 40% and its profits double.

Jeff Bezos retires as general manager Amazon.
THE 68 stores Physics Amazon are closed.

Amazon headquarters

Address
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Amazon had France
67, Boulevard du Général Leclerc
92110 Clichy
Telephone: 0146171000

Information on Amazon

Creation date	1994
Native country	UNITED STATES
Founders / Creators	Jeff Bezos
Effective	541000 (in 2017)
Listed company	AMZN / US0231351067

Slogans Amazon

Work hard, have fun, make history

Millions of products. Millions of stories.

Low prices, where you want, when you want.

Tomorrow, better.

Amazon on the Internet

Official Website	https: // www.Amazon.Fr/
Facebook	https: // www.Facebook.Com/Amazon.Fr/
Twitter	https: // Twitter.Com/Amazonfrance
Youtube	https: // www.Youtube.com/channel/UCBUV5K5ENDQNT62BR7EGBJG
Instagram	https: // www.Instagram.Com/Amazon/

Amazon advertisements

2012 Pub – Amazon – The smile

The door of a house opens on an Amazon package deposited on the doormat. Follow many scenes from everyday life, commented by the voiceover: “The smile on the packages is we. We are Amazon, we are the reinventors of your daily life. Our biggest dream: to create things that change your life and then become a habit. Transform the revolutionary in ordinary. “”. Amazon then presents its Kindle reader and some of its services.

2020 Amazon – Christmas “The dance show” Pub 60s

A very young dancer receives the first role of the end year show of her school. She continues to train tirelessly at home or on the staircase of the building, where she meets a young neighbor seduces, but the show is canceled because of the health restrictions. Her little sister then decides to prepare invitations that she distributes in the building, the young neighbor receives one and then is looking for something on the Amazon site while the little sister shows her elder, touched, the pretty poster she designed for the surprise show that she organized him. In the evening, the young dancer finished preparing in the courtyard in the middle of the buildings and, hardly she started dancing than her young neighbor shines on her a huge torch lamp to highlight it, under applause neighborhood. Music: “The show must go on”, Queen (Peter Mauder Rework).

Amazon: what is it ?

Amazon is an online business company that Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos created in 1994. Its head office is located in Seattle, in the United States. It employs a million people around the world and is one of the GAFAMs, acronym to designate web giants: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft Microsoft . It is the first virtual store in the world and its creator, Jeff Bezos, has $ 112 billion.

Amazon in a few figures

Amazon is a giant and a few figures are enough to paint its portrait:

• A turnover of 177.9 billion: it amounted to $ 438 million in 1997 when the company was listed on the stock market. In France, it is estimated at 7.73 billion euros. Amazon turnover in France: 7.73 billion euros, or 333 million items.
• More than a million employees worldwide. The company has opened sites in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Japan, China, India, Australia and Brazil. It employs 7,500 people in France.
• Five billion deliveries. Amazon puts online a catalog of 119.928.851 different products on the world market.

A GAFAM

Amazon is one of the GAFAM, that means that it dominates the digital market alongside Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. In 2020, she bought Zoox, a company specializing in autonomous vehicles and Wondery, postcasts platform.

What is Amazon ?

Amazon gives you a number of products as well as goods and services. This multinational which, originally, proposed exclusively books has been able to diversify effectively to meet the expectations of its customers.

… to deliver more than a million products to you

Jeff Bezos’ company mainly offers:

• 44.2 million pounds: this is its original activity, it offers new or used works. This means that bibliophiles will find rarities there.
• 10.1 million electronic products;
• 6.6 million products concerning the house and the gardens.

With Amazon Pharmacy, the Amazon compressor roller attacks health

… To constantly offer you new goods and services

Amazon constantly innovates and regularly offers products to its customers:

• Amazon Halo, the connected bracelet created in 2020, to analyze your emotions and your physical physical activity;
• Amazon Care, born in 2019, to improve your state of health;
• Amazon Key: Amazon Key allows you to check who enters your home and unlock your door remote door. Jeff Bezos’ company is interested in the smart city market and the secure house. In 2018, she bought Ring, an American company specializing in connected doorbells. Not to mention Amazon Music, Amazon Video, Amazon Textiles, etc.

How Amazon works ?

You can buy or sell on Amazon almost everything you want. This virtual platform offers extremely simple purchase and sale methods. She even supports entrepreneurs wishing to develop their startup.

Buy on Amazon

Just open a free account, order and pay online. The high -end service Prime brings together one hundred million subscribers who benefit in particular from a free home delivery service in two days, from a continuous video and musical program, etc.

Sell ​​on Amazon

You can sell products on Amazon and even make it your job. Amazon Business is a service for professionals looking for customers. In France, more than 10.000 SMEs and VSEs continue to develop thanks to Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ company even helps French business leaders to manage their invoices. Just open a free account.