Rise in Sales at Amazon Helps Shares

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

NYTIMES
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Rise in Sales at Amazon Helps Shares  
By LAURIE J. FLYNN
Published: July 27, 2005

Over the last year, in an effort to take advantage of its considerable
investment in infrastructure, Amazon has aggressively pushed sales through
third-party merchants, a departure from its original strategy of
emphasizing its own brand. Tom Szkutak, the chief financial officer, said
third-party sales accounted for 28 percent of Amazon.com's revenue, up
from 24 percent a year ago.

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