Amazon records a record profit, even richer founder

This year, the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos appeared at the top of the list of the richest people on the planet Forbes . And it is unlikely that he will abandon this leadership position in the near future.

There is no end to Amazon's success story. Thursday night, the technology company, installed in a garage in 1994, made a record profit of $ 4.2 billion (3.6 billion euros) in the first half.

Nabeurs increased the price by more than 3%. And this has also increased the assets of Bezos, which still holds 16% of Amazon shares. When Forbes published the government's list in March, Bezos was still good at $ 112 billion. Thanks to the price increases, it now represents $ 148 billion.

According to analysts, half-yearly figures are a break in trend. Until now, the story of Amazon was that of fast growing sales. In this phase of growth, growth, growth and expansion of market position, losses have been taken for granted for years. Amazon has only made a structural profit for three years.

In the latest figures, a different dynamic is visible for the first time: the turnover remains relatively stable, but the profits are growing strongly. This would indicate a more mature phase of the business. Amazon can not grow indefinitely ($ 178 billion in annual business figure, 566,000 employees). And that boils down to making the business profitable and keeping it. Bezos and business leaders seem able to do it. "This gives us confidence," says analyst Josh Olson of Edward Jones & Co's investment firm against Bloomberg.

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Amazon is best known as an online store but actually a conglomerate, active in the most diverse fields. The Amazon Web Services branch (which leases the server space in the "cloud") has accounted for more than half of the profit of nearly $ 4.2 billion in the last six months.

Lately, there has been more and more criticism of how Amazon is making substantial profits: on the backs of workers in warehouses. Those who work in poor working conditions for low wages are critical. This month, warehouse employees in Germany and Spain have stopped for this reason.