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M&A Deal Summary

Amazon Acquires Joyo.com

On August 19, 2004, Amazon acquired e-commerce company Joyo.com for 75M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Amazon’s 1st transaction in the E-Commerce sector.
  • This is Amazon’s 18th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Amazon’s 1st transaction in China.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2004-08-19
Target Joyo.com
Sector E-Commerce
Buyer(s) Amazon
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 75M USD

Target

Joyo.com

Beijing, China
Joyo.com offers customers a wide selection of books, videos and DVDs, music, software, toys and gifts, among other products.

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Buyer

Amazon

Seattle, Washington, United States
Category Company
Founded 1994
Sector E-Commerce
Employees1,525,000
Revenue 638.0B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Amazon office building in downtown Seattle, Washington.
Amazon office building in downtown Seattle, Washington.

Amazon is an e-commerce retailer and provider of web services. Amazon enables millions of products to be sold through its website and by third parties across a variety of product categories. Customers access Amazon directly and through mobile websites and apps. Amazon was founded in 1994 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 76
Sector (E-Commerce) 1 of 10
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 7 of 67
Country (China) 1 of 1
Year (2004) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 18 of 21
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-12-04 Egghead

United States

Egghead was a former online retail company.

Buy $6M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-04-04 BookSurge

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

BookSurge LLC is an inventory free book printing and fulfillment company based in Charleston, South Carolina. BookSurge maintains a catalog of thousands of book titles that users can print on demand.

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