Web Based Business Models

Direct Sales Model

Industry: Personal

Founded: 1886

Founder: David H. McConnell

Headquarters: New York, United States

Key People: Douglas R. Conant (Chairman)

Sherilyn S. McCoy (CEO)

Products: Cosmetics, Perfume, Clothing, Toys

Revenue: $9.955 billion USD (2013)

Slogan: The Company for Women

Avon is an American international manufacturer and direct selling company in beauty, household and personal care categories. It is the fifth-largest beauty company and second largest direct sell-ing enterprise in the world, with 6.4 million representatives.

Industry: Direct Selling

Founded: November 9, 1959

Founder: Rich DeVos

Jay Van Andel

Headquarters: Ada, Michigan, United States

Key People: Steve Van Andel (Chairman)

Doug DeVos (President)

Products: Amway Home, Glister, G&H,

Nutrilite, Artistry, Amway Queen


Slogan: We are listening

Amway is an American company that uses a multi-level marketing model to sell a variety of products,

primarily in the health, beauty, and home care markets. Amway was ranked No.26 among the largest

private companies in the United States by Forbes in 2012.

Franchise Model

Subway is an American fast food restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches and salads.

It is owned and operated by Doctor's Associates. Subway is one of the fastest growing franchises in the

world with 44,488 restaurants in 111 countries. It is the largest single brand restaurant chain and the

largest restaurant operator in the world.

Industry: Restaurants

Founded: August 28, 1965

Founder: Fred DeLuca

Peter Buck

Headquarters: Milford, Connecticut, United States

Key People: Suzanne Greco (President)

Products: Submarine sandwiches, Salads, Wraps


Slogan: Eat Fresh

Industry: Restaurants

Founded: 1958

Founder: Dan Carney

Frank Carney

Headquarters: Plano, Texas, United States

Key People: David Gibbs (CEO & President)

Joe Kim (COO)

Products: Italian-American cuisine

(Pizza, Pasta & Buffalo Wings)


Slogan: Flavor of Now

Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise known for pizza and side dishes a subsidiary

of Yum Brands the world's largest restaurant company. Pizza Hut has a total of 11,139 branches worldwide.

Advertising Model

Industry: Internet

Founded: January 1994

Founder: Jerry Yang, David Filo

Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Key People: David Filo (Founder)

Maynard Webb (Chairman)

Marissa Mayer (CEO)

Products: Yahoo (News, Mail, Finance, Search, Messenger)

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Yahoo is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is globally

known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo!

Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video

sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website.

Industry: Internet

Founded: February 14, 2005

Founder: Steve Chen

Chad Hurley

Jawed Karim

Headquarters: San Bruno, California, United States

Key People: Susan Wojcicki (CEO)

Chad Hurley (Advisor)

Revenue: $4 billion USD (2014)

Slogan: Broadcast Yourself

YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by

three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. The

site allows users to upload, view, and share videos, and it makes use of WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and Adobe Flash

Video technology to display a wide variety of user generated and corporate media video.

Brokerage Model

Industry: Internet

Founded: September 3, 1995

Founder: Pierre Omidyar

Headquarters: San Jose, California, United States

Key People: Thomas J. Tierney (Chairman)

Devin Wenig (CEO)

Products: Ebay Classifieds, E-commerce, Gumtree,

Online Auction hosting, Kijiji


Slogan: . Love it. Buy it. Sell it

eBay is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company providing consumer to consumer

& business to consumer sales services via Internet. Today it is a multibillion-dollar business with operations localized

in over 30 countries. The company manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and

businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide.

Industry: Financial Services

Founded: December 1998

Founder: Elon Musk

Luke Nosek

Ken Howery

Max Levchin

Peter Thiel

Headquarters: San Jose, California, United States

Key People: John Donahoe (Chairman)

Dan Schulman (CEO)


PayPal Holdings is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system. Online

money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to traditional paper methods like checks and money

orders. PayPal is one of the world's largest internet payment companies. The company operates as an

acquirer performing payment processing for online vendors, auction sites and other commercial users

for which it charges a fee.

Merchant Model

Industry: Internet

Founded: July 5, 1994

Founder: Jeff Bezos

Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, United States

Key People: Jeff Bezos (Chairman, President & CEO)

Products: Appstore, The Book Depository, comixology,

Game Studios, Video, Instant Video UK,

Audible, Instant Video German, Kindle,

Lab126, Studios, Twitch.tv, Woot


Amazon is an American e-commerce and cloud computing company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. It is

the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States. Amazon started as an online bookstore later diversifying to

sell DVDs, Blu rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads streaming, audiobook downloads/

streaming, software, video games,electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys and jewelry. It is the world's largest pro-

vider of cloud infrastructure services.

Industry: Retail

Founded: July 2, 1962

Founder: Sam Walton

Headquarters: Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Key People: Greg Penner (Chairman)

Doug McMillion (President & CEO)

Products: Apparel & Footwear, Electronics, Ecommerce

Warehouse Club, Discount Store,

Supermarket, Hypermarket, Superstore,


Slogan: Save Money. Live Better

Walmart is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount

department stores and grocery stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, United States the company was

founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, 1969. As of November 30, 2015, it has a total

of 11,598 stores in 28 countries, under a total of 65 banners. It also owns and operates the Sam's Club retail

warehouses.

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