You can edit almost every page by Creating an account. Otherwise, see the FAQ.

Davruna Global Store

From EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki

Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck".

This user has made a public declaration indicating that they have a conflict of interest with regard to the following Wikipedia article(s):


Davruna Global Store
Private
Traded as
ISIN🆔
Industry
Founded 📆July 5, 1994; 30 years ago (1994-07-05)
Bellevue, Washington, U.S.
Founder 👔Runo Efemena
Headquarters 🏙️,
U.S.
Area served 🗺️
Worldwide
Key people
Services
OwnerRuno Efemena (100%)
Members
Number of employees
🌐 Websitedavrunaglobal.com
📇 Address
📞 telephone
Footnotes / references
[1][2][3][4]

Amazon.com, Inc.[1] (/ˈæməzɒn/ AM-ə-zon) is an American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world",[5] and is one of the world's most valuable brands.[6] It is one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.

Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington,[7] on July 5, 1994. Initially an online marketplace for books, it has expanded into a multitude of product categories, a strategy that has earned it the moniker The Everything Store.[8] It has multiple subsidiaries including Amazon Web Services (cloud computing), Zoox (autonomous vehicles), Kuiper Systems (satellite Internet), and Amazon Lab126 (computer hardware R&D). Its other subsidiaries include Ring, Twitch, IMDb, and Whole Foods Market. Its acquisition of Whole Foods in August 2017 for US$13.4 billion substantially increased its footprint as a physical retailer.[9]

Amazon has earned a reputation as a disruptor of well-established industries through technological innovation and "aggressive" reinvestment of profits into capital expenditures.[10][11][12][13] As of 2021, it is the world's largest online retailer and marketplace, smart speaker provider, cloud computing service through AWS,[14] live-streaming service through Twitch, and Internet company as measured by revenue and market share.[15] In 2021, it surpassed Walmart as the world's largest retailer outside of China, driven in large part by its paid subscription plan, Amazon Prime, which has over 200 million subscribers worldwide.[16][17] It is the second-largest private employer in the United States.[18]

Amazon also distributes a variety of downloadable and streaming content through its Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Music, Twitch, and Audible units. It publishes books through its publishing arm, Amazon Publishing, film and television content through Amazon Studios, and has been the owner of film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer since March 2022. It also produces consumer electronics—most notably, Kindle e-readers, Echo devices, Fire tablets, and Fire TVs.

Amazon has been criticized for customer data collection practices,[19] a toxic work culture,[20] tax avoidance,[21][22] and anti-competitive behavior.[23][24]

History[edit]

1994–2006: Early years[edit]

Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos, who chose the Seattle area for its abundance of technical talent, as Microsoft was in the area.[25]

Amazon went public in May 1997. It began selling music and videos in 1998, and began international operations by acquiring online sellers of books in the United Kingdom and Germany. The following year, it began selling music, video games, consumer electronics, home improvement items, software, games, and toys.[26][27]

In 2002, it launched Amazon Web Services (AWS), which initially focused on providing APIs for web developers to build web applications on top of Amazon's ecommerce platform.[28][29] In 2004, AWS was expanded to provide website popularity statistics and web crawler data from the Alexa Web Information Service.[30] AWS later shifted toward providing enterprise services with Simple Storage Service (S3) in 2006,[31] and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2008,[32] allowing companies to rent data storage and computing power from Amazon. In 2006, Amazon also launched the Fulfillment by Amazon program, which allowed individuals and small companies (called "third-party sellers") to sell products through Amazon's warehouses and fulfillment infrastructure.[33]

2007–present: Growth[edit]

Amazon purchased the Whole Foods Market supermarket chain in 2017.[34]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon introduced a hazard pay of $2-per-hour, changes to overtime pay, and a policy of unlimited, unpaid time off until April 30, 2020. The hazard pay increase expired in June 2020, and the paid time-off policy in May 2022.[35][36] Amazon also introduced temporary restrictions on the sale of non-essential goods, and hired 100,000 more staff in the US and Canada.[37] Some Amazon workers in the US, France, and Italy protested the company's decision to "run normal shifts" despite many positive COVID-19 cases.[38][39] In Spain, the company has faced legal complaints over its policies.[40] A group of US Senators wrote an open letter to Bezos in March 2020, expressing concerns about worker safety.[41]

On February 2, 2021, Amazon announced that Jeff Bezos would step down as CEO to become executive chair of Amazon's board in Q3 of 2021. Andy Jassy, previously CEO of AWS, became Amazon's CEO.[42][43]

Products and services[edit]

Ecommerce[edit]

Amazon.com [edit]

amazon.com
Logo since January 2000
Screenshot
Homepage
Type of site
E-commerce
Available in
  • Arabic
  • Chinese
  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Hindi
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish
OwnerAmazon
Websiteamazon.com (original U.S. site)
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched1995; 29 years ago (1995)
Current statusActive
Written inC++ and Java
[44]

Amazon.com is an ecommerce platform that sells many product lines, including media (books, movies, music, and software), apparel, baby products, consumer electronics, beauty products, gourmet food, groceries, health and personal care products, industrial & scientific supplies, kitchen items, jewelry, watches, lawn and garden items, musical instruments, sporting goods, tools, automotive items, toys and games, and farm supplies[45] and consulting services.[46] Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the U.S. and amazon.fr for France), though some offer international shipping.[47]

Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008,[48] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022.[49] The ecommerce platform is the 14th most visited website in the world.[50]

Results generated by Amazon's search engine are partly determined by promotional fees.[51] The company's localized storefronts, which differ in selection and prices, are differentiated by top-level domain and country code:

Region Country Domain name Since Notes
Africa Egypt amazon.eg September 2021
Americas Brazil amazon.com.br December 2012
Canada amazon.ca June 2002
Mexico amazon.com.mx August 2013
United States amazon.com July 1995
Asia China amazon.cn September 2004
India amazon.in June 2013
Japan amazon.co.jp November 2000
Saudi Arabia amazon.sa June 2020
Singapore amazon.sg July 2017
Turkey amazon.com.tr September 2018
United Arab Emirates amazon.ae May 2019
Europe Belgium amazon.com.be October 2022
France amazon.fr August 2000
Germany amazon.de October 1998
Italy amazon.it November 2010
Netherlands amazon.nl November 2014 Books & e-books (plus readers) only, full shop per March 2020[52][53][54]
Poland amazon.pl March 2021
Spain amazon.es September 2011
Sweden amazon.se October 2020
United Kingdom amazon.co.uk October 1998
Oceania Australia amazon.com.au November 2017
Merchant partnerships[edit]

In 2000, U.S. toy retailer Toys "R" Us entered into a 10-year agreement with Amazon, valued at $50 million per year plus a cut of sales, under which Toys "R" Us would be the exclusive supplier of toys and baby products on the service, and the chain's website would redirect to Amazon's Toys & Games category. In 2004, Toys "R" Us sued Amazon, claiming that because of a perceived lack of variety in Toys "R" Us stock, Amazon had knowingly allowed third-party sellers to offer items on the service in categories that Toys "R" Us had been granted exclusivity. In 2006, a court ruled in favor of Toys "R" Us, giving it the right to unwind its agreement with Amazon and establish its independent e-commerce website. The company was later awarded $51 million in damages.[55][56][57]

In 2001, Amazon entered into a similar agreement with Borders Group, under which Amazon would comanage Borders.com as a co-branded service.[58] Borders pulled out of the arrangement in 2007, with plans to also launch its own online store.[59]

On October 18, 2011, Amazon.com announced a partnership with DC Comics for the exclusive digital rights to many popular comics, including Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Sandman, and Watchmen. The partnership has caused well-known bookstores like Barnes & Noble to remove these titles from their shelves.[60]

In November 2013, Amazon announced a partnership with the United States Postal Service to begin delivering orders on Sundays. The service, included in Amazon's standard shipping rates, initiated in metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and New York because of the high-volume and inability to deliver in a timely way, with plans to expand into Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Phoenix by 2014.[61]

In June 2017, Nike agreed to sell products through Amazon in exchange for better policing of counterfeit goods.[62][63] This proved unsuccessful and Nike withdrew from the partnership in November 2019.[63][64] Companies including IKEA and Birkenstock also stopped selling through Amazon around the same time, citing similar frustrations over business practices and counterfeit goods.[65]

In September 2017, Amazon ventured with one of its sellers JV Appario Retail owned by Patni Group which has recorded a total income of US$ 104.44 million ( 759 crore) in financial year 2017–2018.[66]

As of October 11, 2017, AmazonFresh sold a range of Booths branded products for home delivery in selected areas.[67]

In November 2018, Amazon reached an agreement with Apple Inc. to sell selected products through the service, via the company and selected Apple Authorized Resellers. As a result of this partnership, only Apple Authorized Resellers may sell Apple products on Amazon effective January 4, 2019.[68][69]

Private-label products[edit]

Amazon sells many products under its own brand names, including phone chargers, batteries, an diaper wipes. The AmazonBasics brand was introduced in 2009, and now features hundreds of product lines, including smartphone cases, computer mice, batteries, dumbbells, and dog crates. Amazon owned 34 private-label brands as of 2019. These brands account for 0.15% of Amazon's global sales, whereas the average for other large retailers is 18%.[70] Other Amazon retail brands include Presto!, Mama Bear, and Amazon Essentials.[71]

Twitch[edit]

Twitch is a live streaming platform for video, primarily oriented towards video gaming content. Twitch was acquired by Amazon in August 2014 for $970 million.[72] The site's rapid growth had been boosted primarily by the prominence of major esports competitions on the service, leading GameSpot senior esports editor Rod Breslau to have described the service as "the ESPN of esports".[73] As of 2015, the service had over 1.5 million broadcasters and 100 million monthly viewers.[74]

Whole Foods Market[edit]

Whole Foods Market is an American supermarket chain exclusively featuring foods without artificial preservatives, colors, flavors, sweeteners, and hydrogenated fats.[75] Amazon acquired Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in August 2017.[76][77][9]


Other articles of the topic Internet : Newgrounds, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, List of most popular websites, Kayden James Buchanan, MrWolfy, PewPew

Other articles of the topic Companies : Warner Music Group Corp., Spümcø, Inc., Career Education Corporation, Starbucks Corporation, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Univision Communications Inc.
Some use of "" in your query was not closed by a matching "".Some use of "" in your query was not closed by a matching "".

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Amazon.com, Inc. 2021 Form 10-K Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 4, 2022.
  2. "California Secretary of State Business Search". Secretary of State of California.
  3. "Amazon.com, Inc. 2022 Proxy Statement". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. April 14, 2022.
  4. Reuter, Dominick (July 30, 2021). "1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee". Business Insider. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  5. "Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos". PBS.
  6. Kantar. "Accelerated Growth Sees Amazon Crowned 2019's BrandZ™ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brand". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  7. Guevara, Natalie (November 17, 2020). "Amazon's John Schoettler has helped change how we think of corporate campuses". bizjournals.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved March 9, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  8. Kakutani, Michiko (October 28, 2013). "Selling as Hard as He Can". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  9. 9.0 9.1 "Amazon and Whole Foods Market Announce Acquisition to Close This Monday, Will Work Together to Make High-Quality, Natural and Organic Food Affordable for Everyone" (Press release). Business Wire. August 24, 2017.
  10. Furth, John F. (May 18, 2018). "Why Amazon and Jeff Bezos Are So Successful at Disruption". Entrepreneur. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  11. Bylund, Per (August 29, 2017). "Amazon's Lesson About Disruption: Rattle Any Market You Can". Entrepreneur. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  12. "How to compete with Amazon". Fortune. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  13. "Reinvesting for Growth - Why Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is Undervalued Even in this Market". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  14. "Microsoft Cloud Revenues Leap; Amazon is Still Way Out in Front". srgresearch.com. Reno, Nevada: Synergy Research Group.
  15. Jopson, Barney (July 12, 2011). "Amazon urges California referendum on online tax". Financial Times. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved August 4, 2011. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  16. "Amazon Prime now has 200 million members, jumping 50 million in one year". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved December 20, 2021.
  17. Spangler, Todd (April 15, 2021). "Amazon Prime Tops 200 Million Members, Jeff Bezos Says". Variety. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
  18. Cheng, Evelyn (September 23, 2016). "Amazon climbs into list of top five largest US stocks by market cap". CNBC. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  19. Harwell, Drew (April 30, 2019). "Amazon's facial-recognition AI is supercharging police in Oregon". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  20. Kantor, Jodi; Streitfeld, David. "Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace". The New York Times. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  21. Stampler, Laura (February 14, 2019). "Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits". Fortune. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  22. Huddleston, Tom Jr. (February 15, 2019). "Amazon will pay $0 in federal taxes this year — and it's partially thanks to Trump". CNBC. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
  23. Khan, Lina (January 2017). "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox". Yale Law Journal. 126 (3): 564–907.
  24. Baum, Andrew (October 23, 2015). "Amazon Wins Ruling on Results for Searches on Brands It Doesn't Sell". The National Law Review. Foley & Lardner. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  25. The David Rubenstein Show: Jeff Bezos on YouTube, Bloomberg Markets and Finance, September 19, 2018,
  26. Anders, George; Tessler, Joelle (June 8, 1999). "Amazon.com Steps Into World Of Online, Downloadable Music". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  27. Anders, George (July 13, 1999). "Amazon.com Unveils Plans to Open Two More 'Stores' on Its Web Site". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  28. "Amazon.com Launches Web Services; Developers Can Now Incorporate Amazon.com Content and Features into Their Own Web Sites; Extends Welcome Mat for Developers". Amazon.com Press Center. July 16, 2002. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  29. "Amazon.com Web Services Announces Trio of Milestones - New Tool Kit, Enhanced Web Site and 25,000 Developers in the Program". Amazon.com Press Center. March 19, 2003. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  30. "New Amazon Web Services Offerings Give Developers Unprecedented Access to Amazon Product Data and Technology, and First-Ever Access to Data Compiled by Alexa Internet". Amazon.com Press Center. October 4, 2004. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  31. "Amazon Web Services Launches". Amazon.com Press Center. March 14, 2006. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  32. "Amazon Web Services Launches Amazon EC2 for Windows". Amazon.com Press Center. October 23, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2022. Additionally, AWS today announced that Amazon EC2 is now Generally Available, having successfully exited its beta period and now offers a Service Level Agreement (SLA)
  33. "Amazon Launches New Services to Help Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Enhance Their Customer Offerings by Accessing Amazon's Order Fulfillment, Customer Service, and Website Functionality". Amazon.com Press Center. September 19, 2006. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  34. "Amazon.com - History & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
  35. Del Rey, Jason (May 13, 2020). "Amazon extends bonus pay for front-line workers but says it ends in June". Vox. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  36. "Amazon ends COVID paid leave for U.S. workers". Reuters. May 1, 2022. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
  37. Otto, Ben (September 14, 2020). "Amazon to Hire 100,000 in U.S. and Canada". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  38. "Amazon hiring spree as orders surge under lockdown". BBC News. April 14, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  39. "Amazon workers protest over normal shifts despite Covid-19 cases". Financial Times. March 19, 2020. Archived from the original on December 10, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2020. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  40. "Amazon workers strike over virus protection". BBC News. March 31, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  41. Dzieza, Josh (March 30, 2020). "Amazon warehouse workers walk out in rising tide of COVID-19 protests". The Verge. Retrieved March 31, 2020. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  42. "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO". Fox8. Associated Press. February 2, 2021. Archived from the original on February 8, 2021. Retrieved February 2, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  43. Haselton, Todd (February 2, 2021). "Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3". CNBC. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  44. Lextrait, Vincent (January 2010). "The Programming Languages Beacon, v10.0". Archived from the original on May 30, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2010. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  45. "All Departments". Amazon.com. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  46. Rai (2021). "Amazon Tries to Crack India's Produce Market by Wooing Farmers". Bloomberg News. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  47. "Amazon.com, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Jan 30, 2013" (PDF). SEC database. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 9, 2022. Retrieved February 26, 2013. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  48. SnapShot of amazon.com, amazonellers.com, walmart.com Archived May 16, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 12, 2008.
  49. "Web visitor traffic to Amazon.com 2022". Statista. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  50. "Top Websites Ranking". SimilarWeb. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  51. Packer, George (February 17, 2014). "Cheap Words". newyorker.com. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  52. "(Dutch) Webwinkelgigant Amazon komt nu echt naar Nederland". EenVandaag. January 13, 2020. Retrieved November 29, 2021. (Translated) The end of Februari, is, according to retail watchers the moment for web gigant Amazon to really enter the Dutch market
  53. "(Dutch) Amazon.nl officieel van start". Ecommerce News Netherlands. March 10, 2020. Retrieved November 29, 2021. (Translated) Amazon has officially launched their Dutch (Netherlands) store front Amazon.nl. Instead of only books, e-books and e-readers the e-commerce-gigant now sells numerous products.
  54. "(Dutch) Anderhalf jaar Amazon.nl, was de angst terecht? (1,5 years Amazon.nl, was the fear justified?)". Tweakers.net. November 27, 2021. Retrieved November 29, 2021. (Translated) Amazon.nl got lucky with their full fledged release in march 2020, because people started shopping online more and more that year, Amazon has enjoyed a flying start.
  55. "Toys R Us bankruptcy: A dot-com-era deal with Amazon marked the beginning of the end". Quartz. September 18, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  56. "Toys R Us wins Amazon lawsuit". BBC News. March 3, 2006. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  57. Metz, Rachel (June 12, 2009). "Amazon to pay Toys R Us $51M to settle suit". USA Today. Associated Press. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  58. "Amazon/Borders form online partnership". CNN Money. April 11, 2001. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  59. "How 'Amazon factor' killed retailers like Borders, Circuit City". SFGate. July 13, 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  60. Streitfeld, David (October 18, 2011). "Bookstores Drop Comics After Amazon Deal With DC". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 18, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2019. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  61. Barr, Alistair (November 11, 2013). "Amazon starts Sunday delivery with US Postal Service". USA Today. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
  62. "Nike confirms 'pilot' partnership with Amazon". Engadget. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
  63. 63.0 63.1 Cosgrove, Elly; Thomas, Lauren (November 13, 2019). "Nike won't sell directly to Amazon anymore". CNBC.
  64. Zimmerman, Ben. "Council Post: Why Nike Cut Ties With Amazon And What It Means For Other Retailers". Forbes.
  65. Muldowney, Decca (August 23, 2021). "As demand for bikes surged, Amazon got in the way". The Verge.
  66. Bhumika, Khatri (September 27, 2018). "Amazon's JV Appario Retail Clocks In $104.4 Mn For FY18". Inc42 Media.
  67. "Booths teams up with Amazon to sell down South for the first time". Telegraph. October 11, 2017. Archived from the original on January 10, 2022. Retrieved October 11, 2017. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  68. "Amazon strikes deal with Apple to sell new iPhones and iPads". The Verge. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  69. "Apple pumps up its Amazon listings with iPhones, iPads and more". CNET. November 10, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  70. Dulaney, Chelsey (November 30, 1999). "Amazon's Private-Label Brands Could Deliver a $1 Billion Profit Boost". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  71. Bensinger, Greg (May 15, 2016). "Amazon to Expand Private-Label Offerings—From Food to Diapers". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  72. Welch, Chris (August 25, 2014). "Amazon, not Google, is buying Twitch for $970 million". The Verge. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
  73. Popper, Ben (September 30, 2013). "Field of streams: how Twitch made video games a spectator sport". The Verge. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
  74. Needleman, Sarah E. (January 29, 2015). "Twitch's Viewers Reach 100 Million a Month". WSJ. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  75. "Quality Standards". Whole Foods Market.
  76. Kelleher, Kevin (August 28, 2017). "Amazon closes Whole Foods acquisition. Here's what's next". VentureBeat.
  77. Thomas, Lauren (August 24, 2017). "Amazon says Whole Foods deal will close Monday, with discounts to begin then". CNBC.

Further reading[edit]

External links[edit]


References[edit]


This article "Davruna Global Store" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Davruna Global Store. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.