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- Amazon.com, Inc.
- Country : United States
- City: Seattle
- State: Washington - WA
- Address: 1200 12th Ave. South, Ste. 1200
- Zipcode: 98144
- Category: Fortune 500 Companies
- Description: What started as Earth's biggest bookstore is rapidly becoming Earth's biggest anything store. Amazon.com's main Web site offers millions of books, CDs, DVDS, and videos (which still account for the majority of the firm's sales), not to mention toys, tools, electronics, home furnishings, apparel, health and beauty goods, prescription drugs, and services including film processing. Expansion has propelled the firm in innumerable directions. Long a model for Internet companies that put market share ahead of profits and make acquisitions funded by meteoric market capitalization, Amazon.com is now focusing on profits. Founder Jeff Bezos and his family own about one-third of the firm.
- Products: Specialty Retailers
- Employees: 7,800
