The shop on the Internet Amazon.com, born in 1995, reported today that this year has recorded its best holiday sales season and said that only the past 15 days received purchase orders for more than 6.3 million articles, almost 73 per second.
“We are very grateful to our customers,” said founder and director of the company, Jeff Bezos, in a press release that does not include data on revenues or profits.
Amazon sent items to more than 210 countries and came to distribute a total of 5.6 million units the most active day of the season.
Between Nov. 15 and Dec. 10 sold a copy of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 every 2.5 minutes and a sufficient volume of coffee to one cup daily for two months to all residents of Seattle, the city’s status Washington that the company has its corporate headquarters.
Books for Christmas
He also noted that more than 99 percent of the purchase orders it received were distributed in time to reach their destinations before Christmas.
Shares of Amazon.com today is revalued by 2.5% in the first hours of trading on the Nasdaq market and changed hands at 52.73 U.S. dollars.
On the other hand, the shop ‘online’ stressed that among the biggest best sellers in this Christmas campaign appears Nintendo Wii video game, and the last book of JK Rowling and the saga of ‘Twilight’ by Stephenie Meyer, while in point the musical ‘blockbusters’ were in “Fearless” Taylor Swift, “And Winter Came” by Enya, as well as the soundtrack to “Crespúsculo.”
