![]() While Amazon opposes all these resolutions, shareholders should take the opportunity to reject excessive pay for Amazon’s CEO and support resolutions calling for audits of worker health and safety, racial equity and racial and gender pay gaps, employee turnover, and Amazon policies and practices affecting workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining. The agenda for the May 25th annual meeting includes the election of company directors, approval of executive compensation, and several shareholder resolutions concerning Amazon’s employment practices and labor law violations. “Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.This week’s Amazon shareholder meeting provides an important opportunity to consider urgent steps shareholders and policymakers can take to protect the threatened rights of unionizing Amazon workers and counter the company’s growing impact on income inequality, racial and gender disparities, and the degradation of work across the labor market. ![]() In 25 years, Amazon has successfully grown into the most valuable brand in the world, which offers unlimited opportunities to sellers from every industry. Not only is its product portfolio ever-increasing, but it also successfully steals market share from brick-and-mortar stores. In the highly competitive world of e-commerce, Amazon is a marketplace that online merchants cannot ignore. The company expected to finish the year with 31.1 billion pounds, which was over 2 billion pounds more than their initial estimate before the novel coronavirus pandemic. ![]() įurthermore, the company hired over 3,000 more employees in its UK sorting centres, warehouses, and delivery stations and a further 7,000 workers in the final quarter of 2020. As a result of the heightened demand, Amazon announced it would increase its workforce in the UK by one-third. Impact of COVID-19 On Amazon Usage in the UKĪmazon was one of the very few big winners during 2020 since people were afraid to visit brick-and-mortar stores and preferred to use online means to get products. With over 2 billion pounds in sales in 2018, the company represented a 200 per cent turnover growth in just three years. Number of Amazon distribution centres in the UKĪmazon owns and runs 21 distribution centres in the UK, making it its biggest market in Europe. “What’s dangerous is not to evolve.” – Jeff Bezos Amazon Statistics UK In 2020, Amazon employed over 33,675 people in the United Kingdom.Amazon’s turnover rate in the United Kingdom was 4.8 billion pounds (over $6.55 billion) in 2020.There were around 216,000 Amazon Alexa downloads to the iPhone and Android in February 2020 in the UK.The number of households in the United Kingdom who use Amazon Prime grew by almost 10.1 million in the third quarter of 2020.According to Amazon statistics UK, there were over sixteen thousand new sellers in Amazon UK in 2020 alone.There were around 281 thousand sellers in the Amazon UK marketplace in 2019.As of May 2020, Amazon sold over 600 million products in the UK.The total number of visitors to Amazon UK was 579.5 million (60 million more from October) in November 2020.86% of people in the United Kingdom shop at Amazon..uk is by far the biggest online marketplace in the UK, followed by Tesco and Argos.
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