Nationality
American
CEO
Andy Jassy (who is also President and Chairman!)
Sector / Main Business Area
Amazon is a multi-national tech company focusing on e-tailing. It also has sizeable businesses in cloud computing (AWS – Amazon Web Services), Digital Streaming (Amazon Prime) and Artificial Intelligence (which is what powers many of its gadgets).
Listed / Private
Listed
Competitors
Include Rakuten in Japan and Flipkart in India regarding e-commerce, Netflix in streaming and Siri (Apple) in AI.
Fun fact(s)/Brand(s)
Founder, former CEO and current executive chairman Jeff Bezos was the first person ever to have a net worth of over $200bn!
Last reviewed/edited
11th Mar 2022 PW