Amazon was one of the top online bookstores, which soon converted to the top online retailer across the world, and currently, even though it has a lot of competition, Amazon has a strong base of loyal customers who repeatedly buy from the online retailer.It is often referred to as the online equivalent of Wal-Mart because of its reach and global footprint as well as its aggressive pricing strategies. Here is the SWOT analysis of Amazon. Amazon.com sells in 11 countries and ships internationally. It is one of the biggest retailers and is steadily growing every year.
Being the world’s leading online retailer, Amazon derives its strengths primarily from a three-pronged strategic thrust on cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. This strategy has resulted in the company reaping the gains from this course of action and has helped its shareholders derive value from the company.Amazon primarily derives its competitive advantage from leveraging IT (Information Technology) and its use of e-Commerce as a scalable and an easy to ramp up platform that ensures that the company is well ahead of its competitors.One of the key strengths of Amazon is that it enjoys top of the mind recall from consumers globally and this recognition has helped it enter new markets, which were hitherto out of bounds for many e-Commerce companies.Using superior logistics and distribution systems, the company has been able to actualize better customer fulfillment and this has resulted in Amazon deriving