5 Most Preferred Retail Brands

Amazon ($23.6 Billion): Founded by Jeff Bezos just one year after eBay in 1994, Amazon is the world’s largest online retailing e-commerce company.  It started as an online bookstore but later expanded to sell DVDs, software, electronics, furniture, apparel, food, toys and jewelry.  Amazon has also recently introduced a new product into the market called Amazon Dash, a device that makes it quick and easy for

users to add groceries and household items into their Amazon Fresh shopping list. Dash adds products into a customer’s shopping list when they scan the items barcode or when they hold down the microphone button and say the product’s name. The Dash uses the customers WiFi network to add items to their list.

Amazon’s revenue for 2013 was 74.45 billion dollars with their net worth rising to 27 percent.

The Home Depot ($25.7 Billion): This American retailer, commonly known as Home Depot, is the largest retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. This company was founded in 1978 in Atlanta and 1979 in Georgia, and has its offices in Canada, Mexico, China, United Kingdom, South America and India.  The Home Depot also has their charitable trust called The Homer Fund that helps the people who are in need by paying for their basic living expenses.

For the fiscal year 2013, The Home Depot earned 78.8 billion dollars with an increase of 5.4 percent from fiscal year 2012. 

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