In: Finance
Introduce companies – (Amazon, Walmart, Target, eBay)
Amazon :
It is a multinational technology company based in Seattle and started by Jeff Bazos. It is a e-commerce company which uses cloud computing and artificial intelligence for its operations.It is one of the major information technology company in the world.
Its ecommerce platform sells books, electronics, software, digital streaming, video games, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. It is the largest company by revenue and one of the most valuable company in the United States by market capitalization.
Walmart:
It is a multinational retail corporation which operates a chain
of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. It
has headquarterin Bentonville, and was founded by Sam Walton in
1962. It has 11,496 stores in 27 countries. It is the world's
largest company by revenue according to the Fortune Global 500 list
in 2019 and is the largest grocery retailer in US in
2019.
Target :
It is an retail corporation bsed in US . It is the 8th-largest retailer in the United States, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index.
It is established in 1962 as the discount division of the Dayton's Company and started expanding its operating in the 1980. since then till 2019, Target operates 1,844 stores in the United States. The corporation was on 2020 Fortune 500 list and component of the S&P 500 Index. It operated under retail formats such as discount store Target, the hypermarket SuperTarget, and small format stores.
eBay:
It is an e-commerce corporation based in San Jose which provide consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. It founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995. It has operations in about 32 countries and connects businesses to buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services worldwide.