Amazon Buys Zappos

- Stock Symbol: AMZN (Amazon) http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zappos
- Industry: Footwear http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zappos
- Founder: Nick Swinmurn http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zappos
- Phone: 800-927-7671 http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zappos
- Headquarters: Henderson, Nevada http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zappos
- Established: 1999 http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zappos
- CEO: Tony Hsieh http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zappos
- Staff: 1,500 http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zappos
- COO, CFO and Chairman: Alfred Lin http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zappos

The popular online retailer Amazon.com purchased Zappos.com, an online footwear retailer on July 22nd, 2009. Amazon reportedly offered 10 million shares of its stock, worth roughly $880 million.http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/22/amazon-buys-zappos/
Zappos was founded in 1999 by Nick Swinmurn and reached $1 billion in gross sales in 2008.http://about.zappos.com/press-center/zappos-milestone-tenth-anniversary

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