Amazon Academy: How we're supporting small businesses through e-Commerce
Small firms make up almost half of sales on Amazon sites around the world. Across Europe, SMEs exported over €3 billion worth of goods in the past year by working with Amazon.
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Federico Maria Rivalta: Insomnia that led to sales of over 100,000 copies
Federico Maria Rivalta, 59 years old, a fan of detective fiction, was working in finance: he had a good career and money, but he was not happy. So, during long sleepless nights, he began to write a detective story, which he would self-publish with Amazon, transforming his life.
Herbal superpower for more than 130 years
For over 1000 years people have been using herbs whenever they would like to pamper themselves. Kräutermax is a company from Ried in Upper Austria, looking back on almost 130 years of experience with the power of herbs - an approach that is still very much on trend.
Amazon Stories
Small British businesses use Alexa to innovate
Laundrapp, a dry cleaning business in London, uses Alexa to innovate in a 150-year-old industry.
The Beard brothers
The power of three: how Leicester-based brothers Keval Dattani, Kunal Dattani, and Savan Dattani became the big brothers of facial hair grooming and found global success with their 100% British start-up.
Women taking a traditional family business into the digital age
Lucia and Anna. Two women, mother and daughter, run a business specializing in the production of traditional Venetian masks, and they have managed to lead it into the future thanks to Amazon.it.
The man who wanted to fly
Jet Ski champion Franky Zapata invented the Flyboard, a machine that propels people into the air.
Our Amazon Academy program across Europe
Since 2015, the academy has been a meeting place for our customers and partners, future-oriented optimists, pioneers and influencers of digitalization.
In Pictures: Amazon Academy Brussels 2018
Check out the photos and videos from our latest Amazon Academy in Brussels, where we discussed the 21st century with EU policymakers and small business owners.