Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and is now the largest online retailer in the world. The company started as an online bookstore but has since expanded to sell a wide variety of products. The Amazon logo represents selling from A to Z with the arrow connecting the letters also resembling a smile to represent customer satisfaction. Amazon has experienced unprecedented growth, becoming the most valuable retailer in the US by market capitalization by surpassing Walmart in 2015. It now offers over a hundred million products in India across numerous categories from books to electronics to appliances.
2. MESSAGE BEHIND LOGO
- The amazon logo was created to represent the
message that it sells everything from A to Z (the arrow
connects the two letters ) and also represents the smile
that customers would experience by shopping on the
amazon.com web.
3. AMAZON.COM
• Amazon is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded
on July 5 ,1994 by JEFF BEZOS and is based in Seattle ,Washington. It started out as an
online bookstore and then quickly diversified by adding other items, including DVDs, music,
video games, electronics, and clothing.
• It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization.
• In 1999, just five years after he started Amazon, Jeff Bezos was named Time
magazine's "Person of the Year." He received the honor largely because of the company's
success in popularizing online shopping.
• Amazon.com considers itself a completely customer-centric company, believing that if it
doesn't listen to customers, it will fail. Amazon has stated that it wants to take advantage of
any opportunity that presents itself to the company during a time of unprecedented
technological revolution.
• In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States
by market capitalization. In 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market for US$13.4 billion,
which vastly increased Amazon's presence as a brick-and-mortar retailer. In 2018, Bezos
announced that its two-day delivery service, Amazon Prime, had surpassed 100 million
subscribers worldwide.
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6. Products Offered In India
• Amazon device accessories
• Baby products
• Books
• Cameras, Telescopes
• Cell phones
• Consumer Electronics
• Home Appliances
• Music CDs, Cassettes, vinyl and
Other sound recordings
• Tools & Games
• Music instruments
• Office Accessories
• Office Products Supplies ,
Furniture, Printers ,
Calculators
• Personal Computers
• Software & Computers
• Tools & Home Improvement
• Video Games & Video Games Consoles
Types of Products
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8. RECORD GROWTH
• Did you know: Amazon has had one of the fastest growths in the
internet’s history……
• From 1995 to 2000