Brandy Hopkins January 25‚ 2006 Case Study of Amazon.com Individual Marcus Myers Seminar in Business ADM495; BSM259 History The launch of Amazon.com in July of 1995 was the creation of a new and bold way of doing business on the Internet. Amazon.com forced the traditional physical world brick and mortar retailer in the book industry to change the way they target the industry ’s consumers and then epitomized Business-2-Consumer e-retailing. Although‚ Amazon.com started as an online bookstore
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Amazon Case Study Assignment Questions: 1. What is Amazon’s business? [answer this question with a bulleted list] a. World largest online retailer b. Selling products like books‚ digital movies/music‚ electronics/computers‚ clothes‚ toys‚ other home essentials and etc c. In-house consumer electronics d. Cloud computing services 2. What are the business needs/problem that are addressed in the case? [use a table here with column one being the need/problem
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Case study : Amazon 1. What is the business model for Amazon.com? How does their business model differ from that of Barnes and Noble or Borders? How would you value Amazon.com? Amazon is a relatively small player in the bookstore industry‚ and its main competitors are Barnes & Noble and Borders. Despite the difference in scale‚ the company shows great promise‚ because its business model overcomes many of the competitors’ drawbacks. Amazon operates using a web-based platform to sell
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during the period 2007 to early 2010. Amazon’s strategy during the year 2007 to 2009 By using SWOT analysis Strengths 1. Focus on becoming customer centric and continuously improving customer experience by offering lower prices. 2. Continuous investment in innovation and technology. 3. Launching of the AWS (Amazon Web services) which allowed to connect to cloud of resources. 4. Expansion of Amazon in Digital content (DRM) which allowed FREE download and access for
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Amazon Case Study Eric Harman Frostburg State University Amazon is a true story of how to set up shop inside of a garage and create a company that will revolutionize the retail industry. Jeff Bezos did just that. He started his‚ 35th ranked Fortune 500 Company in his garage. He created a new media for the world to use to by books. Anyone could order books‚ and later; CD’s‚ clothing‚ electronics‚ and close to everything that anyone could think of. All at the click of a mouse. One’s order was immediately
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cut. Many products and services exist just online‚ major companies have gone online to successfully augment the brick and mortar corporations‚ and the playing field is all the way to edges of cyberspace‚ wherever that is Traditional competitors Amazon has strong competitors like online retailing stores and a large number of physical stores(Books‚ Grocery‚Electronics‚Video games etc). Examples : Barnes & Noble‚ Inc.‚ Wal-Mart.com USA‚ LLC (privately held)‚ Catalog & Mail Order Houses High – As
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Case Study on Amazon.com Amazon….The world’s largest online retailer. An American multinational electronic commerce company that makes millions of dollars in profit in a year. A company that has separate retail websites in the U.S ‚ Canada ‚ Europe. Very well known brand in the world. The case study that is made for Amazon.com shows that in 2002 almost half of the revenues for that brand were from selling books‚ music and DVD’s or videos on Amazon. Here it is suggested that Amazon should concentrate
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1. Amazon and Toys-r-us both present very good points in this case. With amazon being what it is I believe that it is exclusively selling toys-r-us toys but when it comes to competing with websites like e-bay for amazon to compete it has to be able to sell vintage and collectable toys. I don’t think however that amazon should be charging toys-r-us as much as they do if they are going to allow other vendors to join in on the service that amazon provide. I also think that Toys-r-us is “whining” in
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gadgets.” Amazon had also begun getting into the retail business by selling products offered from companies such as ToysRUs‚ Target‚ Borders‚ Hotwire‚ and many more. Amazon strived to “set the standard for web businesses. The site was intended to become as user friendly as possible with the ability to match needs to all sorts of customer bases. Features that won customers over with the company included their recommendation center‚ gift wrapping options‚ and comments page. After about two years of being
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Amazon Case Study – Notes 1. Using appropriate theories/tools/models covered on the module: * Critically examine Amazon’s strategic positioning on the European market. Access the extent to which value innovations contributed to Amazon’s success as a global player (35 marks) * Evaluate Amazon’s business and corporate-level strategy - a key component to the company’s continued success‚ by discussing approaches adopted to establish a truly global brand (25 Marks) * Suggest
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