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INTRODUCTION: Amazon.com opened for business in July 1995, nobody in that time was optimistic for this brand new business model. People still enjoy the physical store, and skeptical on online shopping. However, with more than a decade efforts, Amazon was named the world’s top brand ahead of common names like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and so on. Amazon and its online business model had creased more than $34 billion revenue, and equally 80 million people visit Amazon.com every month. In order
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I have chosen to research is AMAZON. Here is a little history about Amazon. Amazon is a Fortune 500 e-commerce company based in Seattle, WA. Amazon was one of the first big companies to sell goods over the Internet. Amazon.com was started by Jeff Bezos in 1994. At the time, his company was run completely from his garage in Bellevue, Washington. The company began as an online bookstore. In the first two months of business, Amazon sold to all 50 states and over 45 countries. Within two months, Amazon's
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Comparing Two Similar Businesses: Amazon.com & Borders Books Strayer University Bus 302 – Management Concepts October 31, 2011 Envisioned by its company founder and CEO Jeff Bezos since 1994 as "Earth's most customer-centric company" Amazon.com today, with more than 17 million customers and over a billion and a half dollars in annual sales, stands as the world’s largest E-commerce E-tailer. Named after the Amazon River, one of the largest and most exotic rivers in the world, Amazon.com started
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E-tailers on the planet is Amazon.com; in a matter of 18 years becoming one of the most powerful E-tailers in the world, while not producing a product. Amazon.com is an American e-commerce company based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1994, by Jeff Bezos started a business out of his garage in Bellevue, Washington, which he incorporated under the name Cadabra.com. Then in 1995, Cadabra became Amazon.com, continuing as an online bookstore before diversifying its product lines by adding VHSs, DVDs, music
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Analysis In 1994, Jeff Bezos left his job as senior vice-president of an investment firm, moved to Seattle, and began to work out a business plan for what would become Amazon.com. After his evaluation of report that projected annual Web growth at 2,300 percent, Bezos drew up a list of 20 products that could be sold on the Internet. The list was narrowed down to what he felt were the five most favorable: compact discs, computer hardware, computer software, videos, and books. Bezos eventually decided that
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about who Amazon are and what they do? Yes, well, that may be true, but this case goes beyond the surface to review some of the ‘insider secrets’ of Amazon’s success. Like eBay, Amazon.com was born in 1995. The name reflected the vision of Jeff Bezos to produce a large-scale phenomenon like the River Amazon. This ambition has proved justified since, just 8 years later, Amazon passed the 5$billion sales mark – it took Wal-Mart 20 years to achieve this. By 2008, Amazon is a global brand with
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INTRODUCTION A. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Amazon is one of the leading online companies in the world. Jeff Bezos goal when the company was started was to achieve "long-term growth, market share, and increased sharholder value" (Collins, P. , Mockler, R, & Gartendeld, M, 1 2003). With online shopping and faster internet speeds becoming more avaialble Amazon was faced by great competition from companies such as ebay. Bezos is faced with finding a way to set Amazon apart from the competion, increase market share, obtain
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movies, video games, to, clothing, and even automotive parts. Founder Jeff Bezos started selling only books on Amazon.com in 1995. Bezos shipped his goods to consumers from his garage. In 2007, Amazon made it big when it came out with the Amazon Kindle. There are over more than a million books, newspapers and magazines available for purchase on the Kindle, Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire. Bezos believes that everything takes time. Bezos makes a statement on Forbes, “Just by lengthening the time horizon, you
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com and the many changes to strategies that have been made over the years. Starting out in his garage, former investment banker, Jeff Bezos, took a risk and decided to start Amazon.com. He looked at factors such as, the annual growth in web usage and also looked at features of the book industry, and decided that Amazon would initially be an online bookstore. Bezos focused on growing his company quickly, and by doing this formulated a winning strategic plan that focused on customer service and creating
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