AMZN - Amazon.com, Inc.

Amazon.com, Inc.

410 Terry Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98109
United States
206-266-1000
http://www.amazon.com

Sector: Consumer Cyclical
Industry: Internet Retail
Full-time employees: 647,500

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Jeffrey P. Bezos	Founder, Chairman, Pres & CEO	1.68M	N/A	1964
Mr. Brian T. Olsavsky	Sr. VP & CFO	163.2k	N/A	1964
Mr. Jeffrey M. Blackburn	Sr. VP of Bus. Devel.	178.5k	N/A	1970
Mr. Jeffrey A. Wilke	Chief Exec. Officer of Worldwide Consumer	255.61k	N/A	1967
Mr. Andrew R. Jassy	Chief Exec. Officer of Amazon Web Services Inc.	266.23k	N/A	1968

Amounts are as of 31 December 2018, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical stores and online stores. The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content, as well as offers Echo Flex, a plug-in smart speaker. In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as their own branded Websites; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as compute, storage, database offerings, fulfillment, publishing, digital content subscriptions, advertising, and co-branded credit card agreement services. Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Corporate governance

Amazon.com, Inc.’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 4 October 2019 is 7. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 10; Shareholder rights: 2; Compensation: 9.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.