Just in time for the holiday season, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today
announced that customers can now place orders on Amazon Wine (www.amazonwine.com)
for delivery in New York, Michigan, Arizona and Louisiana. Amazon Wine
offers vast wine-country selection with delivery available to 20 states
and the District of Columbia, adding eight states since launch last
year. With the addition of the four new states, customers can purchase
directly from more than 700 wine sellers offering over 5,000 labels
available on Amazon Wine.
“The holiday season is a busy time, and it’s a huge time saver for
millions of customers to have access to thousands of high-quality wines
while they’re shopping for that special gift on Amazon. We’re excited
for our customers to be able to browse our vast selection of boutique
and prestigious labels through the Amazon Wine store,” said Peter
Faricy, vice president for Amazon Marketplace. “Our customers tell us
they enjoy our wine-country selection and the convenience of finding
detailed information in one place. We want to connect customers with
wine sellers around the country and provide a destination where they can
learn about and purchase wines directly from great wineries on Amazon.”
New this holiday season, Amazon Wine is featuring limited production
wines, deals on mixed packs and the opportunity for customers to get
holiday wine questions answered directly by wine sellers on Amazon.
Customers will be able to purchase labels with limited availability and
small production wines from Napa, including HALL Wines’ signature 2010
Kathryn Hall Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, 2009 Raymond Vineyards’
Generations and Bell Wine Cellars’ 2009 Clone 6. Amazon Wine has added
more than 1,000 international wines, including labels from France,
Italy, Australia and other top regions around the world. For a limited
time, customers can also save 20 percent or more on over 100 mixed packs
that include an assortment of varietals from select wineries. Customers
with questions on picking out that perfect wine can ask wineries
questions through a new interactive Q&A forum on Amazon Wine product
detail pages.
Customers can now browse selection from wineries located in Arizona,
California, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia and
Washington. Amazon Wine offers a wide variety of wines from well-known
brands to enthusiast favorites. Customers can learn about wine by
hearing directly from the winemaker through wine tasting notes, vineyard
details, and wine pairing suggestions. Amazon Wine offers simple filters
to sort by type, such as red wine, white wine, rosè wine, sparkling wine
and dessert wine.
“For a small business, online sales can be daunting. Amazon.com offers
us a simple and efficient way to connect to new and existing customers
that are not within our local reach,” said David Bova, general manager
for Millbrook Vineyards and Winery, located in New York. “This access
allows us to connect to customers that are not only geographically
separate from us but also offers us a different type of customer that as
a winery, can be difficult to reach.”
“While we’re already selling online through our own website, most of our
existing customers are from the local tri-state region. By teaming up
with Amazon.com, we will be able to reach new customers who may never
find us without discovering our labels in the Amazon Wine store,” said
Chris Lopez, manager at Black Star Farms, located in Suttons Bay,
Michigan. “Amazon is an exciting sales channel for us to increase brand
awareness and gain customer exposure. We think customers are attracted
to Amazon.com because of the reputation for value and great customer
satisfaction, and that customer trust creates a big opportunity for us
to attract new customers.”
Today, direct-to-consumer shipping from wineries is available to
addresses in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho,
Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New
York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington,
Wyoming, and the District of Columbia. Customers can ship up to six
bottles of their favorite wine for $9.99. Customers can find more
information about shipping at www.amazon.com/wineshipping.
Wineries interested in selling on Amazon Wine can learn more at http://go.amazonservices.com/wine.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune
500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995
and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be
Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and
discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer
its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers
offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories
such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics &
Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes &
Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto &
Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers
with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s
own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable
virtually any type of business. Kindle Paperwhite is the world’s
best-selling and most advanced e-reader. It features new display
technology with higher contrast, the next generation built-in light, a
faster processor, the latest touch technology, and exclusive new
features designed from the ground up for readers. Kindle, the lightest
and smallest Kindle, features improved fonts and faster page turns. The
new Kindle Fire HDX features a stunning exclusive 7” or 8.9” HDX
display, a quad-core 2.2 GHz processor, 2x more memory, and 11 hours of
battery life, as well as exclusive new features of Fire OS 3.0 including
X-Ray for Music, Second Screen, Prime Instant Video downloads, and the
revolutionary new Mayday button. The all-new Kindle Fire HD includes an
HD display, high-performance processor and dual speakers at a
breakthrough price.
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and www.amazon.com.mx.
As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include
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otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's
expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition,
management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential
fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of
legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment and data center optimization,
seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic
transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory,
government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information
about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial
results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form
10-K and subsequent filings.
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