Amazon At A Glance

11/14/18

Founded: July 5, 1994 in Seattle, Wash. The corporate headquarters consists of 33 buildings with more than 8 million square feet of space, 24 restaurants and other retail operations.

  • Number of employees: more than 540,000 worldwide, including 250,000 full-time jobs in the U.S. and 8,500 fulltime employees in Virginia.
  • Small businesses: 28,000 small- and medium-sized Virginia businesses currently sell on Amazon.
  • Third quarter sales: $56.6 billion.
  • Market cap: As of Nov. 13, the company’s stock was trading at $1,636 per share for a market cap of $800.3 billion. In September, Amazon became the second U.S. public company (after Apple) to hit the $1 trillion market cap.

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