Introduction to major online retail businesses in the United States

1, Amazon Amazon.com

Categories: General Category

2008 revenue: 19.17 billion USD (Amazon earnings)

Listed Companies (stock code: AMZN)

January 2009 Independent Visitors: 54,562,000 (data source, ComScore)

Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ Code: AMZN) is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA. Founded in 1995, it has become the world's most widely used online retailer of goods. In 2008, a total of about 26 billion items were sold on its platform, including third party merchants on its platform. Amazon is committed to being the most customer-centric company in the world, so that people can find and discover anything they want on the web, and try to offer the lowest price. Amazon and other vendors offer customers millions of unique new, refurbished and second-hand goods such as books, videos, music and games, digital downloads, electronics and computers, home gardening supplies, toys, baby supplies, food, clothing, footwear and jewellery, health and personal care products, sports and outdoor products, toys, Automotive and industrial products.

Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's development customers with infrastructure services that are based on their own back-end technology platforms and are delivered over the Internet. With this technology platform, developers can implement almost all types of business. Examples of services provided by Amazon Network services include: Amazon flexible Computing Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple storage service (Amazon S3), Amazon simple database (Amazon SimpleDB), Amazon simple queue service (Amazon simplicity Queue service), Amazon's flexible payment service (Amazon FPS) and Amazon mechanical Turk.

Amazon and its member sites include www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, Www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and excellent Amazon website www.joyo.com and www.amazon.cn etc.

The core financial information of the Amazon calendar year is shown in the following table:

Core financial data for Amazon calendar year (in millions of United States dollars)

Data source: Amazon, billion power network

2, ebay.com

Category: Consumer-to-consumer platform

2008 revenue: 8.541 billion USD

Listed Companies (stock code: EBAY)

January 2009 Independent Visitors: N/A

The global online trading platform, EBay (Nasdaq:ebay), was established in September 1995 to provide a trading platform for individuals and small companies from all parties to buy and sell goods or services. So far, the EBay community has more than 100 million registered members around the world!

Currently, EBay has established affiliate sites in many countries, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, 0.56.html "> Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the USA." In addition, EBay has also expanded its business to the mainland by investing in South Korea's Internet Auction and Latin American mercadolibre.com. EBay is also evolving to provide online trading platform services to every corner of the world.

ebay core business data, as shown in the following table:

ebay core business data (in thousands of United States dollars)

Data source: EBay, billion bang Power network

3, New Egg Newegg Inc.

Category: Electronic

2008 revenue: 2.05 billion USD

January 2009 Independent Visitor 2,141,000 (data source, ComScore)

Private holding Company (imminent listing)

Newegg.com is an excellent American E-commerce company (Www.newegg.com), founded in 2000 in the United States (formerly known as ABSPC, founded in 1990), has been to maintain high-speed growth, 2007 annual sales of 1.85 billion U.S. dollars in the United States IT products online retail industry ranked 1th, and occupy the market over 30 %, ranked among the top ten E-commerce enterprises in the United States. At present, the new egg group has more than 850,000 square feet of warehouse and office space, in the United States, Taiwan and the mainland has more than 1900 employees. Each employee of the new egg is responsible for providing the most sophisticated digital life experience to consumers. New Egg China currently has branches in Shanghai/Beijing/Chengdu/Xian/Guangzhou, consisting of Nesc (Newegg Support Center), China New Egg Network (newegg.com.cn) and the Austrian-Shuo logistics (Ozzo Antananarivo).

4, Nai Fei Netflix

Category; DVD rental

2008 revenue: 1.37 billion USD

Listed Companies (stock code: NFLX)

January 2009 Number of independent visitors: 17517000 (data source, ComScore)

Nai Fei is a company that offers DVD rentals and digital movie downloads, founded in 1997 and recently started offering DIRECT-TO-TV streaming video services through its collaboration with Roku company, Paying users can browse over 12,000 movies and TV shows.

By the end of June 2009, Netflix subscribers had increased by 289000, to 10.6 million, and had risen to 9% in the U.S. home subscriber market, and this year's goal was to reach 1160~1200 million. Netflix subscribers pay 9 to 17 dollars a month, can rent 3 movies at a time, and can watch unlimited movies and TV shows over the internet, without charging another fee.

Article Source: 2009 (fourth session) China online retail conference.