Amazon is an e-commerce company and massive online store. It was one of the first of the major online stores on the internet. Currently Amazon has separate warehouses and websites for the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Japan.http://www.amazon.com/

Amazon began in 1995 by a man named Jeff Bezos. The company is based in Seattle, Washington though the company is an internet-based website. The online store offers a wide array of products from books, to clothes, to video games. The company is continuously expanding into new areas of interest, like the Kindle, as well as spreading worldwide. Amazon have sites across the globe which serve as fulfillment centers. These centers take up over 12 million square feet.http://www.amazon.com/Careers-Homepage/b/ref=amb_link_5763692_1?ie=UTF8&node=239364011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-4&pf_rd_r=0NKR64M9N7HT2E7H6PFB&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1273688102&pf_rd_i=239367011 Amazon boasts of more than 118 million active customer accounts within the website as well as more than two million active seller accounts.http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Careers-Homepage/b/ref=amb_link_5763692_3?ie=UTF8&node=239367011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-4&pf_rd_r=070KBZYH5KX65EN4R2WS&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1273688062&pf_rd_i=239365011

Amazon aims to become the world's most customer-centric company. As customers become more concerned with the environment, so does Amazon.http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=gw_m_b_corpres?ie=UTF8&node=13786321 To date, Amazon has launched several programs meant to benefit the planet. The Amazon Kindle ebook reader has been touted as a helper of the environment.http://www.slate.com/id/2264363/ Through its Frustration-Free Packaging program, Amazon has stopped using hard plastic cases and plastic-coated wires to package its products.http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=gw_m_b_corpres?ie=UTF8&node=13786321

In 1995, Jeff Bezos (as mentioned above), a computer science and electrical engineering graduate from Princeton University, founded Amazon. He knew little about the Internet. However, growth statistics about the early Internet made him enter the world of ecommerce. Amazon began in a garage and business meetings were conducted at the local Barnes and Noble bookstore. Amazon actually started as a bookstore itself, under the name Cadabra.com. It has grown quite considerably since then.http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~elram/amazon-history.html