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GCEIP 500 Company profile

Amazon

Amazon generated $716.9 billion in sales in 2025. About 18 cents of each sales dollar came from AWS, whose cloud infrastructure reaches well beyond online retail.

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Headquarters countryUnited States
UN geographic regionAmericasNorthern America
Business sectorE-commerce, cloud computing and logistics
GCEIP positionPending evidence reviewAssigned only after the 2001–2025 record is reconciled.

The company

What it does

Amazon is a US-based technology and retail company. Its businesses include online stores, third-party seller services, subscriptions, advertising, logistics and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Across markets

Amazon reported 2025 net sales of $716.9 billion, including $128.7 billion from AWS, and about 1.576 million full- and part-time employees at year end. Its marketplace and logistics network connects consumers, sellers and delivery workers; AWS supplies computing infrastructure to businesses and public organizations. The scale brings environmental costs too. Amazon’s 2024 sustainability report puts its total greenhouse-gas footprint at 68.25 million metric tons of CO₂-equivalent, up 6% from 2023, while carbon intensity per dollar of merchandise sales fell to 72.6 grams. These are company-reported figures with different denominators: lower intensity did not mean lower total emissions.

The company’s footprint and context are linked to the public sources below.

GCEIP view

What the record tells us

TIME included Amazon in its 2025 TIME100 Companies list, an editorial selection. Fortune ranked it No. 3 in the 2025 World’s Most Admired Companies All-Stars survey. That reputation ranking remains under programme review for this project and contributes no provisional points at present. Amazon’s WCRC Most Powerful Brands result is a brand-level placement from 2026, outside the 2001–2025 scoring window. The current slate therefore records one provisional TIME list placement, not a final award total or GCEIP rank.

Published recognition

Selected results

See published awards and company-list results 3 sources
  • TIME100 Most Influential Companies · 2025

    TIME100 Companies selection

    Named by TIME editors among 105 businesses for company-specific influence, impact, innovation, ambition or success; analysis of the specific business case pending

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  • Fortune World's Most Admired Companies All-Stars · 2025

    Internet Services and Retailing

    Overall All-Stars rank #3; published industry: Internet Services and Retailing

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  • WCRC World's Most Powerful 100 Brands · 2026

    Ranked market-facing brand; parent-company identity to reconcile

    WCRC global brand-power rank #9

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