Amazon.com, Inc.: Business Operations, Market Share, and Competitors

This report provides a comprehensive overview of Amazon.com, Inc., detailing its business structure, history, and evolution from a book-selling website to a global e-commerce giant. The report covers Amazon's legal status, headquarters location, and the range of goods and services it offers, including its expansion into cloud computing, streaming, and electric vehicles. It examines Amazon's market share, major competitors, and financial performance, including revenue and profit figures. The analysis also explores the company's impact on the market, including its deflationary influence and the effects of its competitive strategies. The report further discusses Amazon's distribution centers, global presence, and the purpose of the business, highlighting its focus on customer service, innovation, and long-term vision. The report also includes the legal considerations such as consumer protection laws and anti-counterfeiting policies, and provides references to relevant academic sources.

Name of the company: Amazon.com, Inc. is an e-commerce,
big data, visual nature, and computer technology American
multinational retail business headquartered in Seattle,
California. And including Google, Apple, Microsoft, and
Facebook, it is one of the Big Five corporations in the United
States' telecommunication sector. The corporation has been
dubbed "one of the most powerful economically and
culturally forces on the planet," and also "the much more
brand finance on the planet." On July 5, 1994, Jeff Bezos
launched Amazon in his garage in Bellevue, Washington. It
began as a book-selling website, but has now evolved to
include computers, applications, computer games, fashion,
furnishings, cuisine, and pets. By total assets, Amazon
surpassed Walmart as the most expensive retailer in the
United States in 2015. In 2017, Amazon paid $13.4 billion
buy Entire Trade Guarantee, significantly expanding its local
stores reach. Amazon Prime, the company's two-day shipping
service, topped 100 million users globally in 2018.
Purpose of the poster: The main purpose of the poster to
define the function and structure of the business in detailed
manner and define how the external factors impact on the
business in positive as well as negative manner.
Year of establishment: 5 July 1994
Eventually, in September 1999, the company developed zShops, a
corrected market and in November, Sothebys.amazon.com, the
now relationship with Sotheby's. Amazon Platform, a service
introduced in November 2000 that allows people to sell second
hand books, CDs, DVDs, and other things beside new things,
developed from bidding and zShops. Online Store is the greatest
of its sort as of October 2014, trailed by platforms from Sears,
Rakuten, and Newegg.
Number of branches in home country: Crossdock centres,
fulfilment centres, sortation centres, transport platforms, Prime
now hubs, and Prime air hubs are among Amazon's distribution
centers. With approximately 125,000 workers, there are 75
fulfillment facilities and 25 sorting facilities. Amazon presently
has 110 fulfillment centre’s in the United States and 185
worldwide.
Number of branches overseas: They have expanded a lot over
the previous 20 years, and we now have hundreds of offices in
much more than 30 nations around the world. They are still led by
client devotion, a desire for creativity, devotion to
continuous improvement, and lengthy vision.
Revenues profit 2018/2019: Non-tax revenue is expected to
increase by 27.7% over the revised estimates of 2018-19 to Rs
3,13,179 crore.
Location of headquarter: Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Legal status: Whenever we decided towards becoming
Amazon sellers, Amazon's policy - but No, Amazon is not
authorized to adopt or implement a policy that is in breach of
the rules. Unless the company is the world's largest online
retailer, corporate practices cannot overrule government
legislation. Trade barriers, consumer protections, privacy
protections, and discrimination laws linked with an E-
commerce firm are all legal considerations that might harm
Amazon. To prevent counterfeit products sales and boost
customer trust, Amazon has implemented an anti-counterfeit
policy that requires every service provided on the marketplace
to be validated. The European Union has General Data
Protection Laws that apply to any firm that gathers consumer
information such as name, mobile number, bank account
information, and so on. All information provided should be
treated with the highest care.
Range of goods and services: Plans, researches, produces,
installs, and distributes electric cars, as well as solar energy
generating and battery storage devices. Automotive and
industrial production and storing are two of the corporation's
sectors. Among Amazon's product offerings are novels, DVDs,
music CDs, tape recordings, and software, as well as
garments, personal care products, electronic goods, gourmet
food, grocery shopping, family and wellness product lines,
advanced manufacturing & scholarly materials, cooking
utensils, jewelers and watches, gardening equipment objects,
and musical instruments.
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INTRODUCTION

Market
Value of the market: Financial leverage is usually referred
to as price valuation, which is the amount an asset obtains on
the market. Market values are complex in nature even if they
are influenced by a variety of elements, including physical
operating environment, business situation, and consumer
preferences relations. The business cycle has a significant
impact on market value, which can change dramatically over
time. Throughout market corrections that precede deflation,
valuations plummet, because during inflationary periods that
occur during inflationary times, valuations soar. Many
additional elements influence valuation, including the
business's field of operation, income, debt burden, and the
overall market climate. For illustrate, if Company X and
Company B both have $100 million in yearly sales, but X is
a rapid technological business and B is a stodgy store, X's
market value will be much more than B's.
Major Competitors: Amazon (AMZN) contends for profit
margin with a few of the largest and most powerful firms.
Although Amazon began as an online bookseller, it has now
evolved becoming the largest e-commerce corporation in the
United States in terms of sales. Target, Walmart, Best Buy,
and Costco are among Amazon's retail store competitors.
Respect to competitors with Netflix, Apple, and Google in
content providers. Amazon competes against Oracle,
Microsoft, and IBM in the online services market.
Market share: As per Forrester Research, an American
market research firm, Flipkart has a share of the market of
31.9 percent in India, putting it the country's leading internet
store. Amazon India, from the other side, aren't far behind
with a 31.2 percent market share. Amazon has a 37 percent
of the market of the US e-commerce commercial store in
2017, and this is predicted to grow further by 2021.
Amazon's market is expected to represent for 50% of the
overall e-commerce retailing economy's net sales quantity as
of the time of the poll.
As per the above poster it has been concluded that Amazon will have
over one million workers globally by the end of 2020. The
corporation will add 400,000 employment in 2020 alone. This
applies to both packed and component workers. While one million
may appear to be a high figure, it is probably a small amount in the
retail market since Amazon does not have a major strong existence.
A typical store need a much larger workforce. Walmart (WMT), for
instance, engages over 2.2 million people worldwide. Amazon has
wreaked havoc on physical shopping, hastening the collapse of
failing businesses. The business's overhead expenses are much lower
than those of other shops because it does not have a physical
location. This offers Amazon the advantage of being able to compete
competitors on pricing and operating on a decrease in income.
Amazon's deflationary influence has some economists concerned.
Record growth, in theory, should be followed by wage increases,
which stimulates inflation as businesses passed on prices for
consumers. The Phillips curve follows this reasoning, but Amazon
has thrown it off.
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