Amazon.com is an e-commerce company, which was founded in 1995 by Jeffrey Bezos Peston. After graduating from Princeton University in 1986, he worked as a financial analyst at DE Shaw & Co. on Wall Street before founding his first Amazon site in July 1995.
Jeffrey Bezos Peston is the founder as well as the CEO of Amazon. The headquarters of his company are based in Seattle, USA.
The business of Amazon.com Inc., is specialized distribution. This site is a leading global online distribution company. It is often called "the largest bookstore in the world", as the company has an excellent range of books which it sells online.
The group develops direct selling activities to the Internet, through auctions and sales by the distribution company.
Its French subsidiary was opened in 2000.
Amazon.com has been listed on NASDAQ [1] since May 1997. The price of Amazon. Com Inc. on 27/12/2006 at 4:03 p.m. was 40.02 USD. The number of employees of Amazon rose sharply between 2001 and 2005, but this growth was not linear. On 31/12/2001 there were 7,800 employees, but in the following year the company experienced a crisis and terminated more than 7500 employees. From, 31/12/2003, the enrollment continued to grow, with 9000 employees on 31 / 12/2004 and 12,000 employees on 31/12/2005.
Amazon accumulated losses for seven years, as its leaders had intended only to invest, thereby reaching a record high in 2000, of 1.4 billion. The following year, Amazon introduced its first redundancy scheme. 1300 Employees left the band in 2001. This represented 15% of the workforce.
Amazon finally became profitable in 2003, but the policy of promotions with the systematic supply of free books, or the distribution of free books with a minimum purchase of other products, affected margins.
Sanctioned by Wall Street in July 2005 the share had fallen back by 16%. The explosion of net income in 2004 was partly due to the turnover achieved by the subsidiaries of the group, which represented 45% of turnover.
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[...] losses for seven years, as its leaders had intended only to invest, thereby reaching a record high in 2000, of 1.4 billion. The following year, Amazon introduced first redundancy scheme Employees left the band in 2001. This represented 15% of the workforce. Amazon finally became profitable in 2003, but the policy of promotions with the systematic supply of free books, or the distribution of free books with a minimum purchase of other products, affected margins. Sanctioned by Wall Street in July 2005 the share had fallen back by 16%. [...]
[...] Georges Aoun: DG in charge of book and new products. Jean-Marc Folliet: DG in charge of CD, video and DVD. Frédéric Donnette: CIO. Mary Collet Kaba: Director of Human Resources. Alexandre Lamoure: General Counsel. Vicent Marty: Director of Operations. Francois Nicol: CFO. F.: Organizational structure of the company The main shareholders are institutional investors who hold of the stock, and leaders who hold . Amazon.com Inc. is organized as a divisional structure. Each function, including logistics, technical, marketing or trading, is present at the global level as in the various subsidiaries. [...]
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