Amazon.com to Open Tacoma Customer-Service Center to Meet Rapid Growth.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 1999-- Leading online retailer Amazon.com (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ) will open a second U.S.-based customer-service center early December in Tacoma, Wash. The new customer-service center is in response to Amazon.com's growing global customer base. "The Tacoma customer-service center will ensure that the growing number of Amazon.com customers continue to receive swift and efficient customer-service throughout the 1999 holiday shopping season and beyond," said Bill Price, Amazon.com's vice president of customer-service. "With the addition of the Tacoma customer-service center to our existing Seattle center Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington. The 74-acre campus is the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. It is located just north of Belltown in Lower Queen Anne. Attractions
The Tacoma facility is the second customer-service center to be opened outside of the company's Seattle headquarters and is expected to be fully operational by early December. "Tacoma was a logical choice for us, and not just from an employment standpoint The Standpoint is a newspaper published in the British Virgin Islands. It was originally published under the name Pennysaver, largely as a shopping-coupon promotional newspaper, but since emerged as one of the most influential sources of journalism in the . It was also a very attractive market in light of the priority the city has given to economic development and attracting high-tech companies," Price added. The company currently operates a customer-service center in Seattle. Additional customer-service representatives to serve Amazon.com Auctions and zShops customers are also being sought to staff the Seattle facility. Tacoma Open House Amazon.com will have recruiters at the Landmark Convention Center and Temple Theater in Tacoma for an open house on Friday, October 22, and Saturday, October 23, to receive applications. The hours of the open house are as follows: Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The company is accepting resumes and will be conducting on-site interviews for temporary and permanent customer-service positions. Seattle Open House Amazon.com will have recruiters at the Pac-Med Building in Seattle for an open house on Friday, October 29, and Saturday, October 30, to receive applications. The hours of the open house are as follows: Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The company is accepting resumes for temporary and permanent customer-service positions for its Auctions and zShops customer base. In celebration of Halloween, Amazon.com will also host a costume costume, distinctive forms of clothing, including official or ceremonial attire such as ecclesiastical vestments, coronation robes, academic gowns, armor, and theatrical dress. contest and give away prizes during the open house's hours of operation. About Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), and its subsidiaries ("Amazon.com") are the Internet's No. 1 music, No. 1 video, and No. 1 book retailer. Amazon.com opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection with online auctions, toys, electronics, free electronic greeting cards See e-card. , and more than 4.7 million book, music-CD, video, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , and computer-game titles. Amazon.com seeks to be the world's most customer-centric company, where people can find and discover anything they may want to buy online. As part of its efforts to provide the best shopping experience for customers, Amazon.com provides secure credit-card payment, personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. recommendations, streamlined ordering through 1-Click technology, and hassle-free auction bidding with Bid-Click. Amazon.com operates two international Web sites: www.amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom and www.amazon.de in Germany. Amazon.com also operates PlanetAll (www.planetall.com), a Web-based address book, calendar, and reminder service. It also operates the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the Web's comprehensive and authoritative source of information on more than 150,000 movies and entertainment programs and 500,000 cast and crew members dating from the birth of film in 1892 to the present. Amazon.com also operates LiveBid.com (www.livebid.com), the sole provider of live-event auctions on the Internet. In addition, Amazon.com has invested in leading Internet retailers that are improving the lives of customers by making shopping easier and more convenient: drugstore.com, an online retail and information source for health, beauty, wellness, personal care and pharmacy pharmacy, art of compounding and dispensing drugs and medication. The term is also applied to an establishment used for such purposes. Until modern times medication was prepared and dispensed by the physician himself. In the 18th cent. , at www.drugstore.com; Pets.com, the online leader for pet products, expert information and services, at www.pets.com; HomeGrocer.com, the first fully integrated Internet grocery-shopping and home-delivery service, with operations in Seattle; Portland, OR.; and Orange County, CA at www.homegrocer.com; and Gear.com, which offers brand-name sporting goods Noun 1. sporting goods - sports equipment sold as a commodity commodity, trade good, good - articles of commerce sports equipment - equipment needed to participate in a particular sport at prices from 20 to 90 percent off retail, at www.gear.com. This announcement contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, Amazon.com's limited operating history, anticipated losses, unpredictability of future revenues, potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results, seasonality, consumer trends, competition, risks of system interruption INTERRUPTION. The effect of some act or circumstance which stops the course of a prescription or act of limitation's. 2. Interruption of the use of a thing is natural or civil. , management of potential growth, risks related to auction services, and risks of new business areas, international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances. 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 Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 1998 and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarters ended March 31, 1999 and June 30, 1999. |
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