Amazon - one of the world's most valuable companies - is worth more than Walmart, Netflix, Target, Nike and Costco combined. What are the secrets to its success? How can these insights be applied to other businesses in the e-commerce sector?
The retail industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Across all sectors and markets, retailers are shifting their business models and customer engagement strategies to ensure they survive. Amazon offers unique insight into the company's persistent dissatisfaction with the status quo and innovation and how it has fundamentally changed the ways in which we shop.
This fully updated second edition explores Amazon's response to the coronavirus pandemic, the convergence of physical and digital retail, e-commerce economics and sustainability, as well as future policy implications. Written by industry-leading retail analysts and with the first edition now translated into more than a dozen languages, Amazon is an invaluable resource for discovering the lessons that can be learned from the company's unprecedented rise to dominance.
Natalie Berg has spent many years helping retailers compete, or partner with, retail giants like Walmart and Amazon. Based in London, UK, she is former Global Research Director at Planet Retail and now runs her own consultancy, NBK Retail, specializing in retail strategy, changing shopping habits and future trends.
As one of the Top 30 global retail influencers, Berg has produced research on a number of industry topics including: convergence of physical and digital retail, click & collect, customer loyalty, discount retailing, store of the future and frictionless commerce. She is a regular TV and radio guest and her views on retail have been published in the FT, Guardian, BBC, The Times, Retail Week, among others. Natalie holds a Bachelor of Science in International Business from the University of Connecticut and also studied at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Grenoble, France.
Miya Knights is Global Content Strategist at poq Commerce, with 25 years' experience as an analyst, journalist and editor specializing in retail enterprise technology use. Based in Sussex, she is the owner and publisher of Retail Technology magazine and has appeared on the BBC, Channel 4 and Euronews and commented in The Telegraph, The Times and The Financial Times among others, as well as regularly speaking at or moderating industry events. She is consistently ranked as one of the top retail industry influencers and was recognized as the 2021 Arts & Media Senior Leader by the Black British Business Awards.
Prior to joining Eagle Eye Solutions as Head of Industry Insight, she was Global Technology Research Director at Planet Retail, and a Senior Research Analyst with IDC Retail Insights. She has a Master's Degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Oxford.
