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Amazon.com Inc.
1200 12th Avenue South
Suite 1200
Seattle, WA 98144-2734
United States - Map
Phone: 206-266-1000
Fax: 206-622-2405
Web Site: http://www.amazon.com

DETAILS 
Index Membership:S&P 500
S&P 1500 Super Comp
Nasdaq 100
Sector:Services
Industry:Catalog & Mail Order Houses
Full Time Employees:17,000

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Amazon.com, Inc. operates retail Web sites, as well as provides programs that enable third parties to sell their products on its Web sites in North America and internationally. It sources and sells a range of products under various categories, such as books; electronics and computers; toys, kids, and baby; sports and outdoors; movies, music, and games; home and garden; apparel, shoes, and jewelry; tools, auto, and industrial; digital downloads; grocery; and health and beauty. The company’s retail Web sites include amazon.com, amazon.ca, amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.co.jp, amazon.co.uk, shopbop.com, endless.com, and the Joyo Amazon Web sites at joyo.cn and amazon.cn. Amazon.com, through Amazon Services, offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Web sites; allow customers to shop for products owned by sellers using its features and technologies; and allow individual customers to complete transactions that include multiple sellers in a single checkout process. The company’s Amazon Enterprise Solutions offer sellers e-commerce expertise, technology, and operational infrastructure to enable e-commerce businesses operating under their own brand name and Web site address. It also offers Amazon Web Services, which provide access to technology infrastructure that developers can use to enable virtually various types of businesses. Amazon Web Services include Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Flexible Payments Service, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and Alexa’s Web Services. In addition, Amazon.com offers co-branded credit card programs, fulfillment-related services, and other marketing and promotional services, such as online advertising. Further, it designs, manufactures, markets, and sells a wireless e-reading device, the Amazon Kindle. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Amazon.com Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 1-Dec-08 is better than 11.7% of S&P 500 companies and 62.2% of Retailing companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Jeffrey P. Bezos , 44
    Founder, Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer and Pres
    N/A N/A
    Mr. Thomas J. Szkutak , 47
    Chief Financial Officer and Sr. VP
    N/A N/A
    Mr. Marc A. Onetto , 57
    Sr. VP of Worldwide Operations
    $ 2.05MN/A
    Mr. Brian Valentine , 48
    Sr. VP of Ecommerce Platform
    $ 1.45MN/A
    Mr. Sebastian J. Gunningham , 45
    Sr. VP of Seller Services
    $ 1.25MN/A
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-07 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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