Amazon USA
Amazon is one of the most popular online shopping company having their operations in almost every part of the world. The company is based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Amazon USA has been started by Jeff Bezos on 5 July 1994. As of 2016 financial year records, the total revenue generated by the company was US$ 135.98 billion. In addition to their main company, they owned many subsidiaries that include Alexa Internet, Game Studios, Book Depositor, Junglee.com, Lab126, and much more. There are more than 540,000 people employed by the Amazon that makes them eighth largest employer in the United States. In 2015, the company was awarded as America’s most valuable retailer by surpassing Walmart. Furthermore, Amazon is the world’s fourth most valuable public company.
Amazon USA Operations
There is a great range of products and services offered by the Amazon that is hard to find anywhere else. Some of the major ones are Echo, Music, Amazon Digital Game Store, Amazon Studios,
Amazon Fresh, Appstore, Amazon Drive, Fire Tablets, Fire TV, Kindle Store, Fire Tablets, and Amazon Web Services. In addition to Amazon USA, the company has separate sites for many other countries, like Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Japan, India, Mexico, Australia, France, and Canada. Another amazing thing about that the company is that their former employees have successfully founded many other businesses after leaving
Amazon. Some of these companies are
Instacart, Flipkart, Hulu, Wikinvest, Pro.com, The Book Depository,
Findory, Quora, Opscode, Nimbula, and
Foodista.com among others.