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Stock Market Project research

Stock Market Project research

Taliyah Watkins
Kaity Thompson

Stock Market Project

Amazon

1. Company Description: Amazon is a corporation/ sole proprietorship and they are a company
that sells products on line and ships them to your home from clothes, shoes, toys, and etc.

2. Company History: amazon was first launched in 1995 as a website that only sells books. And the
founder know that buying online was going to be the next big thing. Over a million people work at
Amazon. They made revenue over a billion dollars

3. Products/Services Offered: they offer rewards cards and their biggest competition is E-Bay

4. Advertising and Promotion: internet, doesn’t get much advertising

5. Miscellaneous Facts: if you call the help desk you might get the CEO of amazon on the phone.
And Amazon is work on 100000 year clock.

Marvel

1. Company Description: it is a corporation and marvel is known for its comic books and the
movies they come out with for example Thor, The Avengers, and Fantastic Four

2. Company History: it was founded in 1939

3. Products/Services Offered: they comic and movie series and toys and their top competitor is
Sony pictures

4. Advertising and Promotion: some of the advertising come from movies, books, and etc

5. Miscellaneous Facts: Jim Steranko was a revered artist on Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D in the
1960s, but his artwork wasn’t the only notable thing about him

Starbucks

1. Company Description: Corporation

2. Company History: Founded in Seattle, Washington in 1971; it operates 23,450 locations
worldwide, including 12,937 in the United States; Their revenue of 2014 was $16.447 billion

3. Products/Services offered: serve hot and cold drinks, whole-bean coffee, microground instant
coffee known as VIA, espresso, caffe latte, full- and loose-leaf teas including Teavana tea products,
Evolution Fresh juices, Frappuccino beverages, pastries, and snacks; some offerings are seasonal or
specific to the locality of the store. Many stores sell pre-packaged food items, hot and cold sandwiches,
and drinkware including mugs and tumblers; select "Starbucks Evenings" locations offer beer, wine, and
appetizers. Starbucks-brand coffee, ice cream and bottled cold coffee drinks are also sold at grocery
stores.

Taliyah Watkins
Kaity Thompson

4. Advertising and Promotion: Instead of producing Starbucks commercials for the masses, the
company chooses instead to focus on the customer’s in-store experience.

5. Miscellaneous Facts: the logo is an image of a "twin-tailed mermaid, or siren as she's known in
Greek mythology", Starbucks has agreed to a partnership with Apple to collaborate on selling music as
part of the "coffeehouse experience", In November 2015, the coffee shop chain Starbucks introduced
solid red seasonal cups, unlike previous seasonal iterations that were decorated with winter or
Christmas-oriented imagery (such as reindeer and ornaments), but no overtly religious symbols. The cup
design was discussed extensively on social media, with some citing the cup as another example of the
"War on Christmas", calling it "cup-gate", and others expressed puzzlement over the outrage generated
by a simple cup. Starbucks continued selling a Christmas blend that year as it had in the past., There
have been calls for boycott of Starbucks stores and products because it has been wrongly claimed that
Starbucks sends part of its profits to the Israeli military, but such allegations are based on a hoax letter
attributed to the President, Chairman and CEO of Starbucks Howard Schultz, who is Jewish and supports
Israel's right to exist

Toys R Us

1. Company Description: Private

2. Company History: founded in 1948 and headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey. Company's
merchandise is sold in 856 Toys "R" Us and Babies "R" Us stores in the United States and Puerto Rico,
and in more than 755 international stores and more than 255 licensed stores in 38 countries and
jurisdictions; it’s revenue for 2014 was $12.4 billion

3. Products/Services offered: Sells baby toys, children’s toys, clothing, bikes, etc.

4. Advertising and Promotion: Formerly known as Dr. G. Raffe, the company's mascot Geoffrey the
Giraffe made his debut during 1957 in print advertisements for Children's Bargain Town. During 1969,
when Children's Bargain Town became Toys "R" Us, Dr. G. Raffe was renamed Geoffrey and became the
official Toys "R" Us "spokesanimal".

5. Miscellaneous Facts: On April 11, 2011, Toys "R" Us announced that it plans to cover 70 percent
of the roof of its distribution center (located in Flanders, New Jersey) with a solar installation. The
company claims this 5.38-megawatt solar project will be the largest rooftop solar installation in North
America., In December 2013, eight days before Christmas, Toys ‘R’ Us announced that their stores in the
United States will stay open for 87 hours straight,


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