improve the company. When visiting Amazon, one obtains several products at one time;-it is a one-stop shop similar to an online “Seven-Eleven Store. “ Amazon is the largest online book retailer composed of a multi million-customer base. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, had great confidence in the World Wide Web even before the dot.com boom. He used the internet as the core of Amazon's business model. Amazon customers are able to search inside the book before buying it, read customer ratings
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The Internet Business Review Issue 1 – October 2004 THE IMPACT OF E-COMMERCE INDUSTRY TURMOIL ON AMAZON.COM: A STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE Russell Casey - Clayton State University, USA William Carroll - University of Phoenix, USA Edited by Faith W. Smalls Abstract Internet retailers face intense competition in their quest to gain market share due to the large number of competitors, ease of entry, low switching costs and the strength of existing multi-channel retailers. To survive, it is critical
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Personal Branding – Entscheider als Botschafter von Unternehmensmarken Bachelorarbeit 2015 HSA Der Einfluss der Personal Brand von Unternehmensführern auf die Marke des Unternehmens. Ein Vergleich ausgewählter CEOs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbildungsverzeichnis .................................
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Benefit and Drivers OI/361 Benefit and Drivers Amazon.com, Inc. is a multicultural electronic commerce company founded in America by Jeffrey P. Bezos in 1994. It was originally named Cadabra Inc. They found that the name was often negatively mistaken as “Cadaver.” The name Amazon was adopted soon after because the Amazon River is the largest in the world, and the letter “A” would help the company to show up at the top of alphabetical lists. Amazon, since its release in 1995, has become
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AMAZON.COM NDQ-AMZN TIMELINESS SAFETY TECHNICAL RECENT PRICE 22.4 5.5 25.0 9.0 61.2 18.5 Median: 62.0 P/E RATIO RATIO YLD 237.56 P/E NMF(Trailing:NMF) RELATIVE NMF DIV’D 50.0 30.6 48.6 25.8 101.1 36.3 97.4 34.7 145.9 47.6 185.6 105.8 246.7 160.6 264.1 172.0 Nil VALUE LINE Target Price Range 2015 2016 2017 640 480 400 320 240 200 160 120 80 60 2 3 3 Lowered 11/9/12 Raised 5/25/07 Lowered 11/16/12 High: Low: 57.8 33.0 BETA 1.05 (1.00 = Market) Ann’l Total Price Gain
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been growing; although the company suffered from a $ -241 M net loss at $ 89 B revenue in 2014. Analysis based on latest audited data FY 2014 by EY. REVENUE & NET INCOME Revenues of $ 89 B with a net loss of $ -241 M in 2014 HISTORY Jeffrey Bezos launched Amazon.com in July 1995 SOURCES OF REVENUE Products (online retail with 79% / $ 70,080 M) and services (= 21% / $ 18,908 M) compuDng services, consumer electronics, digital content & adverDsing services DIVERSIFICATION
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Since its founding, the website Amazon.com has attracted criticism and controversy from multiple sources, where the ethics of certain business practices and policies have been drawn into question. Amazon has faced numerous allegations of anti-competitive or monopolistic behavior, both in and out of court. This includes documented instances of price differentiation, enforcement of controversial patents against competitors, attempts to prevent discounted direct selling by publishers, and a declared
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American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc., as of January 2010.[3] Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. It started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys,
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name Brand with good elements are constructed favorable in consumers’ minds. It is applicable, has distinct and specific meanings, thus memorable and easy to be acknowledged next time it is viewed. To increase awareness of the brand, founder, Jeffrey P. Bezos conducted several attempts naming the company. He initially named “Cadabra Inc” in 1995 when he realized that it can be misconceived as “Cadaver” which literally means dead body. The “Amazon” was soon adopted due to the fact that it is the largest
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INDUSTRY COMPETITION: Amazon exists in a highly competitive e-commerce industry with tough competitors like Apple, Barnes and Noble, E-Bay. However Amazon has competitive advantage in the following aspects: i) Pioneer Advantage: Amazon established its niche as the first online book seller in the year 1997. Today Amazon is the nation’s biggest book seller and world’s largest online retailer (New York Times, 2012). Amazon has managed to keep up with technology by investing in cloud computing
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