SEATTLE--(Business Wire)--
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 2008 holiday season finished
as its best ever, with over 6.3 million items ordered worldwide on the peak day,
Dec. 15, which is a record-breaking 72.9 items per second.
"We are extremely grateful to our customers," said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO
of Amazon.com. "We wish everyone happy holidays and the very best for the coming
year."
Amazon Worldwide 2008 Holiday Facts (includes www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk,
www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp and www.amazon.ca):
* Amazon shipped to over 210 countries.
* One of our most remote shipments was Take Along Thomas & Friends toys,
delivered to Unalaska, Alaska.
* On the peak day this season, Amazon's worldwide fulfillment network shipped
over 5.6 million units.
* Amazon shipped over 169,000 units to APO/FPO addresses.
* Amazon shipped more than 99 percent of orders in time to meet holiday
deadlines worldwide.
Amazon.com 2008 Holiday Facts (www.amazon.com only):
* Amazon.com sold enough "Breaking Dawn" books that stacked end to end they
would reach the summit of Mt. Everest eight times.
* During the period from Nov. 15 - Dec. 10, Amazon sold one copy of Microsoft
Office Home and Student 2007 every 2.5 minutes.
* The weight of all GPS devices sold from Black Friday through December equals
the combined weight of 151 Mini Coopers.
* Amazon sold enough high-performance headphones that everyone attending the
last three Super Bowls could grab a set and rock out.
* Amazon Grocery sold enough coffee to give each resident of the highly
caffeinated city of Seattle a cup per day for two months.
* Amazon sold enough Casio G-Shock watches to outfit every Kanye West fan
attending the 2008 Glow in the Dark Tour concert at Madison Square Garden, N.Y.
* Amazon sold enough Coldplay CDs that laid side by side they`d stretch from
Seattle to Violet Hill (a street in London and the album`s first single) and
more than halfway back.
* Amazon sold enough Munchkin Mozart Magic Cubes to fill every seat in the
Sydney Opera House five times over.
* Amazon sold enough Wild Planet Hyper Dash games that the total weight of sets
sold is over 81,000 pounds - almost the size of two 747 aircrafts.
* Amazon sold enough Spalding basketballs to fill three C-130 cargo planes.
* The last One-Day Prime order placed on Dec. 23 in time for Christmas delivery
contained a "Dora the Explorer" micro-shell helmet, and was delivered to Sherman
Oaks, California on Dec. 24.
* The last Same-Day Prime order placed at 7:25 a.m. on Dec. 24 in time for
Christmas delivery contained a Pinzon 400-thread-count, 100 percent Egyptian
Cotton Hemstitch full sheet set, and was delivered at 6:12 p.m. to Las Vegas,
Nevada on Dec. 24.
Amazon.com's Hot Holiday Bestsellers (Nov. 15 through Dec. 19 based on units
ordered):
* In toys, top sellers included the Eyeclops night vision stealth goggles,
Blokus classic board game and Wild Planet`s Hyper Dash.
* Top sellers in consumer electronics included Samsung`s 52-inch 1080p 120Hz LCD
HDTV with RED Touch of Color, the Apple iPod touch 8 GB (2nd Generation) and the
Acer Aspire One 8.9-inch netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 1 GB RAM,
160 GB hard drive, XP Home, 6 cell battery), sapphire blue.
* Nintendo Wii dominated the top sellers in video games and hardware including
the Wii console, the Wii remote controller and the Wii nunchuk controller.
* The top-selling items in the Sports & Outdoors Store included the Razor A Kick
scooter, Victorinox Swiss Army Champion Plus pocket knife and Klean Kanteen
sports cap.
* Jewelry top sellers included a 14-karat white gold Journey Curve pendant (1/2
cttw, H color, I1 clarity), the platinum, round, diamond 4-prong stud earrings
(1 cttw, G-H color, VS2 clarity) and the sterling silver marcasite & garnet
18-inch glass heart pendant.
* Top-selling watches included the Invicta men's Pro Diver stainless-steel
watch, Citizen`s Eco-Drive men's Chronograph Canvas watch and Movado`s Juro
stainless-steel watch for men.
* Top sellers in the Beauty Store included the Sephora Brand Ultimate
Blockbuster - collector's edition makeup palette, Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil
and Sephora`s Piiink So Belle multi-use makeup palette.
* In DVDs, top sellers included "Wall-E," "The Dark Knight" for Blu-ray and "The
Dark Knight."
* Top sellers in books included "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" by J.K. Rowling
(standard edition, hardcover), "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga,
book 3, hardcover) and "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga,
book 4, hardcover).
* In music, top sellers included "Fearless" by Taylor Swift, "And Winter Came"
by Enya and the "Twilight" soundtrack.
* Top sellers ordered from Amazon Mobile web and TextBuyIt include Monopoly Here
and Now World, the Nintendo Wii and "Wall-E" (three-disc special edition +
digital copy and BD Live) for Blu-ray.
* The top-selling home and garden items included the Oster 4207 electric wine
opener, Vinturi Essential wine aerator and the Cuisinart CSB-76 SmartStick hand
blender.
* Top sellers in apparel and accessories included the Kenneth Cole Reaction
men's Eden wool pea coat, the AK Anne Klein women's double-breasted Pea coat
with hood, and Columbia Sportswear`s Trinity bomber jacket.
* Popular shoes and handbags at Amazon.com and Endless.com include crocs Mammoth
clog, Bearpaw women's T410 12-inch boot and Steve Madden women's Bonanza tall
shafted flat boot.
* Top-sellers in health and personal care included the Groom Mate Platinum XL
nose and ear hair trimmer, the Anti-Snore and the Natrol-Carb Intercept with
phase 2.
* Top-selling items in Amazon`s Gourmet Food Store included the Taste of Italy
gift basket, the Holiday Cheer gift basket and the Create-a-Treat gingerbread
house kit, deluxe model.
* Top sellers in home improvement included the Stanley 95-155 3-in-1 tripod LED
flashlight, Rockwell RK9000 Jawhorse and Toro 38361 power shovel 7.5-amp
electric snow thrower.
* The top-selling products in the Automotive Parts & Accessories Store included
the Bulldog remote starter with keyless entry, Deltran`s SuperSmart Battery
Tender Plus 12-volt 1.25-amp battery charger and the Wagan heated seat cushion.
* Top-selling items in the Baby Store included the Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube,
Cloud b Twilight Constellation night light and Baby Einstein`s Takealong Tunes.
* In software, the top sellers included Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007,
Norton Antivirus 2009 and Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition.
* Top-selling items in Amazon's Grocery Store included Numi's Bouquet Bamboo
gift set with clear teapot and nine flowering teas, Gloria Jean's coffees,
K-Cup, flavored coffee variety for Keurig Brewers and Haribo gummi candy
Gold-Bears.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened
on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection.
Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where
customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and
endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and
other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in
categories such as books, movies, music & games, digital downloads, electronics
& computers, home & garden, toys, kids & baby, grocery, apparel, shoes &
jewelry, health & beauty, sports & outdoors, and tools, auto & industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon`s developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology
platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.
Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon
SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments
Service (Amazon FPS), and Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca,
and the Joyo Amazon websites at www.joyo.cn and www.amazon.cn.
As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com,
Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's
expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties
that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth,
new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating
results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims,
fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements,
acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system
interruption, significant amount of indebtedness, inventory, government
regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that
potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in
Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, and subsequent
filings.
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