3. INTRODUCTION ABOUT AMAZON
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington, in July 1994. The company
initially started as an online marketplace for books but later expanded to sell electronics,
software, video games, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. 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 . Amazon
distributes downloads and streaming of video, music, and audiobooks through its Amazon
Prime Video, Amazon Music, and Audible subsidiaries.
7. INTRODUCTION ABOUT ZOMATO
Zomato is an Indian restaurant aggregator and food delivery start up founded by Deepinder
Goyal in 2008. Zomato provides information, menus and user-reviews of restaurants, and also
has food delivery options from partner restaurants in select cities. As of 2019, the service is
available in 24 countries and in more than 10,000 cities. Zomato was founded as Foodiebay in
2008. It was renamed Zomato in 2010.In 2011, Zomato expanded across India to Delhi
NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune and Kolkata. Subsequently, in 2012, the company
expanded operations internationally in several countries like the United Arab Emirates, Sri
Lanka, Qatar, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and South Africa.
8. INTRODUCTION ABOUT ZOMATO
In 2013, Zomato was launched in New Zealand, Turkey, Brazil and Indonesia, with its
website and apps available in Turkish, Brazilian
Portuguese, Indonesian and English languages. Further in April 2014, Zomato launched
its services in Portugal, followed by launches in Canada, Lebanon and Ireland in the
same year. The acquisition of Seattle-based food portal Urban spoon marked the
firm's entry into the United States, Canada and Australia, and brought it into direct
competition with Yelp, Zagat and OpenTable
12. INTRODUCTION ABOUT DELL
Dell Inc., which operates under the brand name Dell, is an American multinational computer
technology company that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products
and services. Named after its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest
technological corporations in the world, employing more than 145,000 people in the U.S. and
around the world (Annual report 2018). Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data
storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals, HDTVs, cameras, printers,
MP3 players, and electronics built by other manufacturers.
13. INTRODUCTION ABOUT DELL
The company is well known for its innovations in supply chain management and electronic
commerce, particularly its direct-sales model and its "build-to-order" or "configure to order"
approach to manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer
specifications. Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but with the
acquisition in 2009 of Perot Systems, Dell entered the market for IT services. The company
has since made additional acquisitions in storage and networking systems, with the aim of
expanding their portfolio from offering computers only to delivering complete
solutions[buzzword] for enterprise customers.
