12/17/2013 Professor Andersen Amazon.com Amazon is one of the largest companies selling products online. They specialize in vendors and/or have individuals send an item to the Amazon company warehouse and Amazon.com can sell the product. This company is versatile and sells all items from sleep wear to cook ware. Basically‚ vendors‚ individuals‚ and Amazon’s warehouse can all sell goods and make it available to do so. Like all companies‚ Amazon has policies and procedures to protect both the
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the following will conduct a SWOT analysis of Amazon. 2. SWOT ANALYSIS 2.1. STRENGTHS Huge Global Brand Amazon was a pioneer in the application of information technology in the retail sector. Amazon has developed customer database up to the number of 30 million and become the leading online retailers worldwide. It is now favorite website of most online shoppers. Guaranteed quality of various products and services Start as an online book seller‚ Amazon has now grown “to a virtual Wal-Mart of
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SWOT ANALYSIS Strenghts * Global Brand * Large Products Portfolio * Innovative * Acquisitions Amazon is the leading online retailer regarding media‚ products that educate and entertain. Amazon being a powerful global brand. Its customer base is over 30 million people has established separate websites in Canada‚ UK‚ Germany‚ Italy‚ France‚ Japan and China. It has a diversified product portfolio. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore but soon diversified‚ selling DVDs‚
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Amazon.com Business Analysis Calvin Moy MGT 521 August 13‚ 2012 Dan Kearney Amazon.com Business Analysis Amazon.com‚ or Amazon as most people refer to it‚ is one of the largest online retailers in the world. It is an online web-based marketplace that has tens of thousands of products and still increasing. The goal of Amazon is stated on its website: Amazon.com strives to be Earth ’s most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online
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| CS4264 E-Commerce: B2C Applications | Assignment 1: Amazon.com | Rachel Lin Peishi (U078952B) | Five Forces Analysis 1. Threat of New Entrants Threat of new entrants is low: The online books retailing industry has a high entry barrier. Newcomers will need high capital which includes website development costs‚ distribution channels establishment costs‚ branding costs and etc to startup. As such‚ the threat of new entrants is low. 2. Bargaining Power of Suppliers BP of
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SWOT analysis of Amazon.com Three major products and/or services that are offered by Amazon that will be the scope of this paper are digital content‚ retail goods and computing services. Amazon has several competitors in all three products/service lines. In the case of digital content a few major competitors to Amazon include Apple‚ Google‚ Barnes & Noble‚ Hulu‚ Netflix‚ brick-and-mortar stores‚ and direct publishing by content owners. Advantage Amazon has over its competitors in the area of digital
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The analysis on industry and competitor environment is important for organizations‚ because its useful for managers to understand the competitive forces acting on and between the organizations’s in the same industry. Porters Five Forces in the E-Retailing Industry Porter’s Five Forces analysis is used to assess the attractiveness of different industries‚ and therefore‚ it can help in illustrating the sources of competition in a particular industry. The competitive rivalry amongst the e-retailing
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Amazon is the world’s biggest e-commerce retailer. They were founded in 1994‚ being the first online retailer to secure one million customers in 1997. They are based out of Seattle‚ Washington but have locations in 18 U.S states and 14 international locations. They currently have over 88‚000 employees and are still growing. Amazon sells pretty much anything you want on their website‚ from DVDs and video games to shoes and sports equipment. When Jeff Bezos‚ founder of Amazon.com‚ started Amazon all
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these companies belong to Amazon… Did you know: Amazon is also… AmazonBasics Amazon-branded electronic products AmazonFresh sells and delivers groceries in Seattle AmazonStudios online social movie studio Amazon WarehouseDeals offers discounts on refurbished products Did you know: Amazon has had one of the fastest growths in the Internet’s history… Revenues reached within first 5 years $2‚8 bn $1‚5 bn $0‚4 bn eBay Google Amazon Amazon and eBay results from 1995
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction …………………………………………………….… 2. Literature Review.………………………………………………. 3. Methodology ……………………………………………………… 4. Data Analysis and Interpretation ………………………………. 5. Conclusion and Result ……………………………………………. 6. Bibliography ………………………………………………………. 7. References …………………………………………………………. 8. Annexure ………………………………………………………….. INTRODUCTION Mankind is insecure by nature. Unlike an animal whose requirements do not exceed beyond food for its
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