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                                    Founded in 1994, today it is the world's largest online retailer. The company also produces consumer electronics including the Kindle e-book reader, and provides cloud computing services. Acquired US organic food specialist Whole Foods for US$13.7 billion in 2017 to expand its grocery operations.
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         CDP Climate Change score of B
        CDP Climate Change score of B
    
    
        In 2023, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) asked companies to provide data about their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change risk. Responding companies are scored across four key areas: disclosure; awareness; management; and leadership. This company received a CDP Climate Change score of B.
    
            Source: CDP
                                    (2023)
                            
        
    
         10.5/20 in Social Benchmark
        10.5/20 in Social Benchmark
    
    
        The 2024 Social Benchmark assesses the world's 2,000 most influential companies on their responsibility in meeting society's fundamental expectations towards three measurement areas: respecting human rights, providing decent work, and acting ethically. This company was assessed in 2023 and received a score of 10.5/20. The average score was an alarmingly low 4.6/20 and the highest score was 15.5/20.
    
            
    
         100% on Corporate Equality Index
        100% on Corporate Equality Index
    
    
        This company received a perfect score in the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index 2025, a benchmarking tool on corporate policies, practices, and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer employees in the USA.
    
            Source: Human Rights Campaign
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         3/18 in Net Zero scorecard
        3/18 in Net Zero scorecard
    
    
        As You Sow's 2022 report, 'Road to Zero Emissions', assessed the progress of 55 of the largest U.S. corporations in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with the Paris Agreement's objective of limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, which requires achieving "net zero" emissions by 2050. Companies are graded on: climate related disclosures; GHG reduction targets, and GHG reductions. This company received an Overall Net Zero grade of F.
    
            Source: As You Sow
                                    (2022)
                            
        
    
         F grade in Plastic Promises Scorecard
        F grade in Plastic Promises Scorecard
    
    
        As You Sow's 2024 Plastic Promises Scorecard measures the corporate ambition and action of 225 large companies across six industries on six core pillars of plastic packaging pollution prevention: 1) Recyclability, 2) Reduction, 3) Recycled Content, 4) Recovery, 5) Reuse, and 6) Producer Responsibility. This company received a grade of F.
    
            Source: As You Sow
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         9/100 in What Fuels Fashion?
        9/100 in What Fuels Fashion?
    
    
        The 2025 special edition of the Fashion Transparency Index, What Fuels Fashion? (second edition), ranked 200 of the world's largest fashion brands on disclosure of their climate and energy-related policies, practices and impacts in their own operations & supply chains. Brands owned by this company scored 9%. The average score was 14% and the highest score was 71%.
    
            Source: Fashion Revolution
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         Efforts to pay a living wage
        Efforts to pay a living wage
    
    
        The Clean Clothes Campaign report, Tailored Wages 2019 analyses responses from 32 top clothing brands about their progress in implementing a living wage for the workers who produce their clothes. This company received the lowest possible grade in the report, meaning they produced no evidence that any worker making their clothes was paid a living wage anywhere in the world.
    
            Source: Clean Clothes Campaign
                                    (2019)
                            
        
    
         Data privacy fine in Europe
        Data privacy fine in Europe
    
    
        In 2021 this company was hit with a record 746 million euros fine for  allegedly breaking European Union data protection laws. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules requires companies to seek people's consent before using their personal data.
    
            Source: BBC
                                    (2021)
                            
        
    
         Worker mistreatment
        Worker mistreatment 
    
    
        Amazon staff work in a punishing environment - hours are long and impossible targets are set. The unpacking, movement, and repackaging of goods is relentless, and increased to levels that employees struggle to meet. It also has a ruthless 'three strikes and you're out policy' - where staff who do not meet these targets are sacked straight off the bat.
    
            Source: salon.com
                                    (2014)
                            
        
    
         Forced labour in China
        Forced labour in China
    
    
        The Chinese government has facilitated the mass transfer of Uyghur and other ethnic minority citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 83 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including brands owned by this company. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute's 2020 report  estimates (somewhat conservatively) that more than 80,000 Uyghurs were transferred out of Xinjiang to work in factories across China between 2017 and 2019, and some of them were sent directly from detention camps.
    
            Source: ASPI
                                    (2020)
                            
        
    
         12.2/100 for water stewardship
        12.2/100 for water stewardship
    
    
        The Ceres Valuing Water Finance Initiative Benchmark 2023 evaluates the water stewardship efforts of 72 companies from four water-intensive industries: food, beverage, apparel, and high-tech. Companies were assessed on a 0-100 point basis across six categories of water management: water quantity, water quality, ecosystem protection, access to water and sanitation, board oversight, and public policy engagement. This company was rated " Starting the Journey" with a score of 12.2/100.
    
            Source: Ceres
                                    (2023)
                            
        
    
         27% in Ranking Digital Rights Index
        27% in Ranking Digital Rights Index
    
    
        The 2025 Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) Index evaluates and ranks 14 of the world's most powerful tech giants on their policies and practices affecting people's rights to freedom of expression and privacy. In RDR's 2025 Big Tech Edition none of the digital platforms earned a passing grade. This company ranked last, with a total score of 27/100.
    
            Source: Ranking Digital Rights
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         Fined $2.5b over deceptive Prime tactics
        Fined $2.5b over deceptive Prime tactics
    
    
        In 2025 Amazon agreed to pay US$2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations that it duped users into paying for Prime subscriptions and made it hard to cancel memberships. The company will be required to pay a US$1 billion civil penalty and provide US$1.5 billion in refunds to an estimated 35 million consumers harmed by the company's "deceptive Prime enrollment practices," the FTC says. Amazon is also required to stop its "unlawful enrollment and cancellation practices."
    
            Source: Tech Crunch
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         Top 10 Corporate Criminal of 2017
        Top 10 Corporate Criminal of 2017
    
    
        This company appeared on Global Exchange's list of "10 Top Corporate Criminals of 2017" for poor labor conditions and unjust treatment of workers and for putting local small and mid-sized stores out of business, destroying local retail jobs and thriving downtowns.
    
            Source: Global Exchange
                                    (2017)
                            
        
    
         Tax avoidance
        Tax avoidance
    
    
        Ethical Consumer in the UK are calling for a boycott on Amazon for tax avoidance. What singles Amazon out as a consumer-facing tax avoider is not just its size and market power, but the fact that its whole business model appears to be built around tax avoidance as a way of competing on price.
    
            Source: Ethical Consumer
                                    (2019)
                            
        
    
         Fined for abusing market position in Italy
        Fined for abusing market position in Italy
    
    
        In 2021 Amazon was fined 1.13 billion euros by Italy's competition and market authority (AGCM) which has found that Amazon has abused its dominant market position and pushed third-party sellers to use the company's logistics service Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). Third-party sellers don't get the same treatment if they're leveraging FBA or using their own logistics stack.
    
            Source: Tech Crunch
                                    (2021)
                            
        
    
         Top spender on lobbying in USA
        Top spender on lobbying in USA
    
    
        This company is on OpenSecrets.org's list of "Top Spenders on Lobbying", a list of the 20 organizations that have spent the most trying to influence US government policy. This company was in the top 20 list every year between 2020 and 2024, having spent $87,950,000 on lobbying in those 5 years. 
    
            Source: Open Secrets
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         Make Amazon Pay campaign
        Make Amazon Pay campaign
    
    
        The Make Amazon Pay campaign brings together over 80 organisations to demand the world's largest retailer improve worker conditions, lessen its carbon footprint and pay more in taxes.
    
            Source: Make Amazon Pay
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         5/150 in Fashion Accountability Report
        5/150 in Fashion Accountability Report
    
    
        The Remake Fashion Accountability Report 2024 evaluates 52 major global fashion companies on their performance across human rights, environmental, economic, and governance issues within their supply chains. Companies are scored across six key areas: traceability, wages and well-being, commercial practices, raw materials, environmental justice, and governance. This company scored 5 out of a possible 150 points. The average score was 14 and the highest score was 40, reflecting the report's high bar and aspirational standards.
    
            Source: Remake
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         "Net zero" greenwash
        "Net zero" greenwash
    
    
        'The Big Con' is a 2021 report by Corporate Accountability, Friends of the Earth and others that makes clear that Big Polluters' idea of "net zero" is part of their continued plan to protect deeply unjust global systems, distract from taking the real action needed, and to evade responsibility for the climate crisis and to continue to pollute. This company was named in the report as one whose  "net zero" climate commitments are anything but real action. 
    
            Source: Corporate Accountability
                                    (2021)
                            
        
    
         21.5% in Forest 500 Rankings
        21.5% in Forest 500 Rankings
    
    
        Forest 500 identifies and annually assesses the 500 companies and 150 financial institutions most exposed to deforestation risk in their supply chains and investments on the strength and implementation of their commitments on deforestation and human rights. This company received a score of 21.5%.
    
            Source: Forest 500
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         Low integrity climate pledges
        Low integrity climate pledges
    
    
        The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025, published by NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch, evaluates the climate strategies, net-zero pledges, and emission reduction efforts of 55 major global companies. The report assesses transparency, integrity, and alignment with science-based transitions, highlighting best practices, areas for improvement, and instances of greenwashing. This company's climate pledges were rated "low integrity".
    
            Source: New Climate Institute
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         15.1% in Human Rights Benchmark
        15.1% in Human Rights Benchmark
    
    
        The 2022 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark assessed 127 companies in the food and agriculture, ICT and automotive manufacturing sectors on their human rights performance. This company received a score of 15.1%.  The overall average score was a disappointing 17.3% and the highest score was 50.3%.
    
            
    
         Workers rights in China
        Workers rights in China
    
    
        A 2023 report by China Labor Watch investigated labour conditions in China's consumer electronics sector using three stages of research: analysis of social media posts, case studies through online research, and in-person factory investigation. Labour abuses in factories supplying this company were identified in multiple social media posts. Labour abuses include discrimination, illegal use of student interns, deception, wage theft and wage arrear.
    
            Source: China Labor Watch
                                    (2023)
                            
        
    
         13/100 in Ethical Fashion Report
        13/100 in Ethical Fashion Report
    
    
        Baptist World Aid Australia's '2024 Ethical Fashion Report' assessed 120 companies on their efforts to mitigate against the risks of forced labour, child labour and worker exploitation in their supply chains, as well as protect the environment from the harmful impacts of the fashion industry. Assessment criteria fall into five main categories: policy & governance, tracing & risk, auditing and supplier relationships, worker empowerment and environmental sustainability. This company received a score of 13/100. The average score was 31.3 and the highest score was 90.
    
            
    
         Excessive CEO pay
        Excessive CEO pay
    
    
        As You Sow's 2023 report, 'The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs', reveals the 100 most overpaid CEOs from USA's 500 largest public companies (as determined by the S&P 500 list). This company's CEO, Andrew R. Jassy came in at number 9 on the list, having been paid US$212,701,169 in 2022. According to the report, "Most CEOs have come to be grossly overpaid, and that overpayment is harmful to the companies, the shareholders, the customers, the other employees, the economy, and society as a whole."
    
            Source: As You Sow
                                    (2023)
                            
        
    
         Retirement plan investments
        Retirement plan investments
    
    
        The Invest Your Values Corporate Retirement Plan Sustainability Scorecard by As You Sow rates retirement plans on seven environmental and social sustainability issues. This company's default corporate retirement plan offered to employees is the Vanguard Target Retirement Fund which is rated Fair for gender equality and civilian firearms, and Poor for fossil fuels, deforestation, prison industrial complex, military weapons and tobacco. This retirement plan has millions of dollars invested in fossil fuels, deforestation-risk agribusiness, and arms manufacturers.
    
            Source: As You Sow
                                    (2022)
                            
        
    
         Fined $46.7m for patent infringements
        Fined $46.7m for patent infringements
    
    
        In 2023 Amazon was ordered by a federal court to pay $46.7 million USD for the infringement on four patents around the company's Echo smart speakers and Alexa assistant. Said patents relate to providing network-coordinated conversational services, tying advertisements to natural language processing of voice-based input, and a conversational voice user interface.
    
            Source: Channel News
                                    (2023)
                            
        
    
         Green Grades Report card
        Green Grades Report card
    
    
        F for report card on paper practices of the office supply sector, (A best, F worst), covering chain of custody endangered forests plantations & controversial sources, responsible forestry & FSC-certification, recycling & reduction, and other leadership. [Listed under information due to age of report]
    
            Source: ForestEthics
                                    (2009)
                            
        
    
         F in Guide to Greener Electronics
        F in Guide to Greener Electronics
    
    
        This company received a grade of F in the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics (Oct 2017), which assesses companies from the electronics industry across three impact areas: energy use, resource consumption, and chemical elimination. Of the 17 companies ranked, this company came fourteenth. [Listed under Information due to age of report]
    
            Source: Greenpeace
                                    (2017)
                            
        
    
         2014 CHOICE Shonky Award
        2014 CHOICE Shonky Award
    
    
        Named and shamed in the 2014 CHOICE Shonky Awards. Amazon's Knidle e-reader copped a Shonky for deceptive claims about its battery life.
    
            Source: Choice
                                    (2014)
                            
        
    
         D+ grade at Behind the Barcode
        D+ grade at Behind the Barcode
    
    
        D+ grade in the Baptist World Aid Australia's Behind the Barcode 'Ethical Electronics Guide 2016', which grades companies on their efforts to mitigate the risks of forced labour, child labour and worker exploitation throughout their supply chains. Assessment criteria fall into four main categories: policies, traceability & transparency, monitoring & training and worker rights. [Listed under Information due to age of report]
    
            
    
         Involvement with prisons
        Involvement with prisons
    
    
        As documented by the Project of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), this company is involved in the USA prison industry. Amazon is the largest provider of cloud computing for US immigration authorities as well as the Israeli government and military, and also supports prison and police surveillance.
    
            Source: AFSC
                                    (2021)
                            
        
    
         Failure to sign International Accord
        Failure to sign International Accord
    
    
        This company has been called out by the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) for not signing the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile & Garment Industry. All of the brands that have not yet signed the Accord continue to put workers' lives at risk and CCC urge them to sign on as soon as possible.
    
            Source: Clean Clothes Campaign
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         29.7% in conflict minerals rankings
        29.7% in conflict minerals rankings
    
    
        As You Sow's 2019 report, Mining the Disclosures, is a deep analysis of 215 companies' human rights performance in relation to sourcing conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This company's score was 29.7% (Weak). [Listed under Information due to age of report]
    
            Source: As You Sow
                                    (2019)
                            
        
    
         0.0% in Newsweek Green Ranking 2017
        0.0% in Newsweek Green Ranking 2017
    
    
        This company received a score of 0/100 in the Newsweek Green Ranking 2017, which ranks the world's largest publicly traded companies on eight indicators covering energy, greenhouse gases, water, waste, fines and penalties, linking executive pay to sustainability targets, board-level committee oversight of environmental issues and third-party audits. Ranking methodology by Corporate Knights and HIP Investor.
    
            Source: Newsweek
                                    (2017)
                            
        
    
         Involvement with Israel
        Involvement with Israel
    
    
        The BDS movement calls for a pressure campaign against this company for its complicity in Israel's ongoing violations of Palestinian rights. "In May 2021, as the Israeli military bombed homes, clinics, and schools in Gaza and threatened to push Palestinian families from their homes in occupied Jerusalem, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud signed a $1.22 billion contract to provide cloud technology to the Israeli government and military. By supporting Israeli apartheid with vital technologies, Amazon and Google are directly implicated in its entire system of oppression, including its unfolding genocide in Gaza."
    
            Source: BDS
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         Product carbon footprint label
        Product carbon footprint label
    
    
        This company has products that are certified by the Carbon Trust, signifying that the carbon footprint of selected products has been measured, managed and reduced. A life cycle product carbon footprint is determined by calculating the total greenhouse gas emissions generated by a product, from extraction of raw-materials, to end-of-life.
    
            Source: Carbon Trust
                                    (2021)
                            
        
    
         Climate action commitments
        Climate action commitments
    
    
        As listed on the We Mean Business website, this company has committed to the following climate action initiatives: adopt a science-based emissions reduction target.
    
            Source: We Mean Business
                                    (2021)
                            
        
    
         Turkmen Cotton Pledge signatory
        Turkmen Cotton Pledge signatory
    
    
        This company has signed the Turkmen Cotton Pledge with the Responsible Sourcing Network, signifying a public commitment to not knowingly source Turkmen cotton for the manufacturing of any of their products until the Government of Turkmenistan ends the practice of forced labor in its cotton sector. Each cotton season, Turkmen public sector workers are forced by the government to fulfill cotton picking quotas and private businesses are forced to contribute to the efforts financially or with labor. This places a huge burden on the health, education, and general well-being of Turkmen citizens.
    
            Source: Turkmen Cotton Pledge
                                    (2022)
                            
        
    
         GC3 member (Green Chemistry)
        GC3 member (Green Chemistry)
    
    
        This company is a member of the Green Chemistry and Commerce Council (GC3), a business-to-business forum that advances the application of green chemistry and design for environment across supply chains.  It provides an open forum for cross-sectoral collaboration to share information and experiences about the challenges to and opportunities for safer chemicals and products.
    
            Source: GC3
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         Responsible Minerals Initiative member
        Responsible Minerals Initiative member
    
    
        This company is a member of the Responsible Minerals Initiative (formerly the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative), which helps companies address conflict minerals issues in their supply chains. The RMI provides information on conflict-free smelters and refiners, common tools to gather sourcing information, and forums for exchanging best practices on addressing conflict minerals. Membership is open to companies that use or transact in tantalum, tin, tungsten or gold (3TG). Founded in 2008 by members of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative.
    
            Source: RMI
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         PPA Participant
        PPA Participant
    
    
        This company is a participant in the Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA), a multi-sector and multi-stakeholder initiative to support supply chain solutions to conflict minerals challenges in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central Africa. The PPA provides funding and coordination support to organizations working within the region to develop verifiable conflict-free supply chains; align chain-of-custody programs and practices; encourage responsible sourcing from the region; promote transparency; and bolster in-region civil society and governmental capacity.
    
            Source: PPA
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         Responsible Business Alliance member
        Responsible Business Alliance member
    
    
        This company is a member of the Responsible Business Alliance (formerly the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition),  a non-profit coalition of electronics companies which supports the rights and wellbeing of workers and communities worldwide affected by the global electronics supply chain. RBA members commit and are held accountable to a common Code of Conduct and utilize a range of RBA training and assessment tools to support continuous improvement in the social, environmental and ethical responsibility of their supply chains.
    
            Source: RBA
                                    (2022)
                            
        
    
         EOCA member
        EOCA member
    
    
        This company is a member of the European Outdoor Conservation Association, a non-profit charitable organisation which supports conservation work by raising funds from within the European Outdoor sector and promoting care and respect for wild places.
    
            Source: EOCA
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         Ellen MacArthur Foundation member
        Ellen MacArthur Foundation member
    
    
        This company is a member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, whose stated mission is to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation works with business, government and academia to build a framework for an economy that is restorative and regenerative by design. 
    
            
    
         How2Recycle member
        How2Recycle member
    
    
        This company is a member of How2Recycle. The How2Recycle Label is a voluntary, standardized labeling system that clearly communicates recycling instructions to the public. It involves a coalition of forward thinking brands who want their packaging to be recycled and are empowering consumers through smart packaging labels. Companies must be a member of the program to use the How2Recycle Label.
    
            Source: How2Recycle
                                    (2023)
                            
        
    
         Sustainable Apparel Coalition member
        Sustainable Apparel Coalition member
    
    
        This company is a member of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, a multi-stakeholder initiative launched in March 2011 by a group of global apparel and footwear companies and non-profit organizations (representing nearly one third of the global market share for apparel and footwear). The Coalition's goals are to reduce the apparel industry's environmental and social impact, and to develop a universal index to measure environmental and social performance of apparel products. 
    
            
    
         amfori BSCI member
        amfori BSCI member
    
    
        This company is a member of the amfori Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), an industry-driven movement that aims to monitor and assess workplace standards across the global supply chain. Participating companies are expected to follow a code of conduct which has 11 principles including no bonded labour, no child labour, fair renumeration, decent working hours and ethical business behavior.
    
            Source: amfori
                                    (2023)
                            
        
    
         CanopyStyle member
        CanopyStyle member
    
    
        This company is a member of the CanopyStyle initiative, which came about when research found that millions of trees are used every year to produce dissolving pulp, a key ingredient for fabrics such as rayon/viscose. The campaign seeks to phase out the use of endangered forest fibre in fabric.
    
            Source: Canopy
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         C rating at ClickClean.org
        C rating at ClickClean.org
    
    
        Greenpeace's 2017 report 'Clicking Clean' looks at the energy footprints of large data centre operators and popular websites and applications, and calls on these companies to power their data centres on renewable energy.  Companies are graded (A,B,C,D,F) on their commitment to and procurement of renewable energy, as well as energy efficiency, transparency and advocacy. This company's final grade was C. [Listed under Information due to age of report]
    
            Source: Greenpeace
                                    (2017)
                            
        
    
         31.28% for supply chain practices in China
        31.28% for supply chain practices in China
    
    
        The Green Supply Chain Corporate Information Transparency Index (CITI) evaluates consumer-facing companies that have a sizeable supply chain in China.  The evaluation uses government supervision data and public information to assess the environmental management of their supply chains in China. This company received a score of 31.28/100 (retrieved 24 Nov 2023).
    
            Source: IPE
                                    (2023)
                            
        
    
         Repairability of devices
        Repairability of devices
    
    
        Engineers from ifixit.com disassembled and analysed a range of consumer electronics products, awarding each a repairability score between one and ten. Ten is the easiest to repair. A device with a perfect score will be relatively inexpensive to repair because it is easy to disassemble and has a service manual available. Each device is scored based on how difficult and time-consuming it is to disassemble and reassemble the product to fix or replace critical components. Points are docked where proprietary tools are needed, and points are awarded for comprehensive service manuals and wide availability of parts. E-readers and wireless earbuds released by this company in 2023 scored 5 points out of 10.
    
            Source: iFixit
                                    (2023)
                            
        
    
         Modern Slavery statement
        Modern Slavery statement
    
    
        California, the UK and Australia have all enacted legislation requiring companies operating within their borders to disclose their efforts to eradicate modern slavery from their operations and supply chains. Follow the link to see this company's disclosure statement.
    
            Source: company website
                                    (2017)
                            
        
    
         21.6% in Human Rights Benchmark
        21.6% in Human Rights Benchmark
    
    
        The 2023 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark assessed 55 companies in the apparel sector on their human rights performance. This company received a score of 21.6%.  The overall average score was a disappointing 18.2% and the highest score was 53.4%.
    
            
    
         27-44/100 in KnowTheChain Benchmark
        27-44/100 in KnowTheChain Benchmark
    
    
        From 2023 to 2025 KnowTheChain benchmarked over 180 large global companies in the ICT, Food & Beverage, and Apparel & Footwear sectors on their efforts to identify and tackle forced labour risks in their supply chains. This company received scores in all three benchmarks ranging from 27/100 to 44/100.
    
            Source: KnowTheChain
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         BHRRC company profile
        BHRRC company profile
    
    
        Business & Human Rights Resource Centre digital platform presents news and allegations relating to the human rights impact of over 20,000 companies. Their enhanced Company Dashboards also include financial information, key data points based on corporate policies, and scores from prominent civil society benchmarks. Follow the link and use the search function to view this company's dashboard.
    
            Source: BHRRC
                                    (2022)
                            
        
    
         39% in Gender Benchmark
        39% in Gender Benchmark
    
    
        In 2023 and 2024, the World Benchmarking Alliance assessed 2,000 companies on their efforts to drive gender equality and women's empowerment across their entire value chain. Companies are assessed on governance and strategy, representation, compensation and benefits, health and well-being, and violence and harassment. This company scored 39 out of 100. The average score was 15.3 and the highest score was 51.
    
            
    
         C+ in Retailer Report Card
        C+ in Retailer Report Card
    
    
        The 2024 Retailer Report Card by Toxic-Free Future evaluates the efforts of 50 major U.S. and Canadian retailers in addressing hazardous chemicals and plastics in their products and supply chains. Retailers are scored across four key areas: corporate commitment, transparency, efforts to "ban the bad" chemicals, and safer solutions. This company received a grade of C+.
    
            Source: Toxic-Free Future
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         OpenSecrets.org profile
        OpenSecrets.org profile
    
    
        OpenSecrets.org tracks the influence of money on U.S. politics, and how that money affects policy and citizens' lives. Follow link to see this company's record of political donations, lobbying, outside spending and more.
    
            Source: Open Secrets
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         Transparency Pledge
        Transparency Pledge
    
    
        The Apparel and Footwear Supply Chain Transparency Pledge (Transparency Pledge) helps demonstrate apparel and footwear companies' commitment towards greater transparency in their manufacturing supply chain.  Transparency of a company's manufacturing supply chain better enables a company to collaborate with civil society in identifying, assessing, and avoiding actual or potential adverse human rights impacts. This is a critical step that strengthens a company's human rights due diligence.  This company has published  limited supplier factory information, and falls well short of the Pledge standard.
    
            Source: Transparency Pledge
                                    (2019)
                            
        
    
         26/100 in Fashion Transparency Index
        26/100 in Fashion Transparency Index
    
    
        The 2023 Fashion Transparency Index reviewed 250 of the world's largest fashion brands and retailers and ranked them according to how much they disclose about their human rights and environmental policies, practices and impacts. Brands owned by this company scored 26%, signifying it is doing a bit more than the others when it comes to having policies and commitments in place and auditing and reporting activities, but could be doing more. The average score was 26% and the highest score was 83%.
    
            Source: Fashion Revolution
                                    (2023)
                            
        
    
         44.9% in Digital Inclusion Benchmark
        44.9% in Digital Inclusion Benchmark
    
    
        The 2023 Digital Inclusion Benchmark ranks 200 companies on their responsibility to advance a more inclusive digital society. The companies were assessed using four measurement areas: access, skills, use and innovation. This company ranked #49/200, with a total score of 44.9/100.
    
            
    
         JUST Capital ranking
        JUST Capital ranking
    
    
        JUST Capital polls Americans every year to identify the issues that matter most in defining just business behaviour. For their 2025 rankings the public identified 17 issues, which are organised under the headings Workers, Communities, Customers, Shareholders and Environment. JUST Capital then define metrics that map to those issues and track and analyse the largest, publicly traded U.S. companies. This analysis powers their rankings, in which this company ranked 267th of 940 companies, and 3rd of 43 Retail companies.
    
            Source: JUST Capital
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         Medium ESG Risk
        Medium ESG Risk
    
    
        Sustainalytics, a top ESG research firm, evaluates environmental, social, and governance risks for over 16,000 companies. Its ESG Risk Rating reflects how much risk a company faces in its industry and how well it manages those risks. The final score includes both unmanaged and unmanageable risks, and companies are rated on a scale from negligible (0-10) to severe (40+). This company received an ESG Risk Rating of 26.1, placing it in the "medium risk" category (retrieved April 2025).
    
            Source: Sustainalytics
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         CEO Pay Ratio of 43:1
        CEO Pay Ratio of 43:1
    
    
        In 2024 the median pay for a worker at this company was US$37,181. The CEO was paid 43 times this amount. Exorbitant CEO pay is a major contributor to rising inequality. CEOs are getting more because of their power to set pay, not because they are increasing productivity or possess specific, high-demand skills. The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or taxed more). In contrast, the CEO-to-typical-worker compensation ratio was 20-to-1 in 1965 and 58-to-1 in 1989.
    
            Source: AFL-CIO
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         Amazon.com controversies - Wikipedia
        Amazon.com controversies - Wikipedia
    
    
        Since its founding, the website Amazon.com has attracted criticism and controversy from multiple sources, where the ethics of certain business practices and policies have been drawn into question. See an extensive list of controversies on Wikipedia by following the link below.
    
            Source: Wikipedia
                                    (2014)
                            
        
    
Company Details
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                Public company
                                                    Revenue:
                280.5 billion USD
                                            (2019)
                                    
                                        Employees:
                798,000
                                            (2019)
                                    
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        Amazon Commercial Services Pty Ltd
                            
            
                
                
                    
    
        Online store
                                    Amazon massively expanded in Australian presense in 2017, when amazon.com.au started up
                            
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                                    Supermarket chain operating primarily in the USA, with a few stores in the UK. Owned by Amazon since 2017.
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