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Introduction

Amazon.com was founded by Jeff Bezoz
The online based business began its official operations on the July of 1995 when it began taking the first orders (Skalicky, 2013)
Amazon is a cost leadership business level, that became incorporated on the 28th of May 1996
It is an American based electronic commerce as well as cloud computing organization with its headquarters in Seattle, Washington
The Business is known as the best book selling and bookstore, offering a 30 to 40% discount on its sales

Amazon. Com brief history

Since its inception, the business has acquired five more virtually business which includes video music, database technology, toys and even kitchen accessories and also herbal supplements (Figiel, et al., 2008)
The business started as a single business leading in a particular line, however, the organization has since expanded to other unrelated products
Amazon.com has since grown since its inception in 1995, and has expanded to two times its size
It is shown that Amazon.com doubles on its size in every 2.4 months with an estimated 838% increase in the volume levels sales from 1996 to 1997 (Ritala, Golnam & Wegmann, 2014).

Amazon. Com brief history

To manage the increased workload over a short time, the organization employed 800 employees as at August 1998
Currently, 22% of Amazon sales are out of the United States, with its major expansion strategies being the United Kingdom
Amazon tries to enter in the foreign markets ‘smoothly’, a move that involves acquiring previously established businesses
A section of the organization's strategy is to create strategic alliances which involves acquiring businesses in the foreign areas.
The business differentiates itself from other related business by developing a strategic mission

Amazon.com products

Amazon. Com sales by $ in America from 98 to 2009 as adopted from (Amazon,2015).

Amazon.com business model

The business uses amazon to buyer sales technique
It also adopted a multi-level E-commerce technique
For quality purposes, the business does effective customer tracking
Currently, the business operates 7 websites on the world wide web, offering over 20 million products (Figiel, et al., 2008).
Amazon.com uses two internet models;
Conceptual model
structural model

Amazon.com business model

Amazon.com supply chain

Amazon.com inventory model

References

Figiel, G. S., Epstein, C., McDonald, W. M., Amazon-Leece, J., Figiel, L., Saldivia, A., & Glover, S. (2008). The use of rapid-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in refractory depressed patients. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 10(1), 20-25.
Ritala, P., Golnam, A., & Wegmann, A. (2014). Coopetition-based business models: The case of Amazon. com. Industrial Marketing Management, 43(2), 236-249.
Amazon, E. C. (2015). h ttp://aws. amazon. com/ec2. Accessed March, 6.
Skalicky, S. (2013). Was this analysis helpful? A genre analysis of the Amazon. com discourse community and its “most helpful” product reviews. Discourse, Context & Media, 2(2), 84-93.