Amazon hasn’t always been the online retail powerhouse it is today. Just 25 years ago, in 1994, it began as an online bookstore and since then has acquired and invested in many different companies in a variety of industries. Their diversity in products has helped them to become today’s largest Internet company by revenue.
This infographic takes a look at when these companies were added to the portfolio, and how much Amazon has grown every year since 1998. It’s timeline set-up reveals patterns and possible strategies that the company may have had in mind when making these purchases and investments throughout the years. Retail websites seemed to be one of the major focuses from 1999 through 2010, while technology was one of the main industries they focused on from 2009-2015. In fact, Amazon purchased or invested in only technology ventures during 2015.
With 2016 as the year of purchasing and investing in cloud services, you can see that Amazon has a game plan they’ve been following over the years. Did any of these purchases or investments surprise you?
infographic by: www.titlemax.com
