Amazon.com, Inc. - AMZN- Profile

Amazon.com, Inc.. The Group's principal activity is to provide online retail sales. It operates in three principal segments: Media, Electronics and other general merchandise and other. The Media segment includes retail sales from www.amazon.com of books, music and DVDs/video products and magazine subscriptions. The Electronics and other general merchandise segment includes retail sales from www.amazon.com of electronics, photo items, software, cell phones, outdoor living items, kitchen and houseware products, toys and video games. The Other activities include co-branded credit card agreements and miscellaneous marketing and promotional activities. The North American segment includes retail sales of the websites: www.amazon.com and www.amazon.ca. Other segment includes retail sales of internationally focused websites: www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp and www.joyo.com. The Group also operates the websites: www.a9.com and www.alexa.com. Media accounted for 65% of 2006 revenues; Electronics and other general merchandise, 32% and Other, 3%