Amazon Says Business Sales on Pace For $10 Billion Annually

  • Internet giant likely to keep expanding globally due to demand
  • Customers include schools, hospitals and governments
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Schools, hospitals and governments have quickly embraced Amazon.com Inc. as a go-to source for supplies, propelling the company’s three-year-old business platform into a $10 billion annual enterprise. Its success may soon provide as much revenue as the Amazon Web Services cloud-computing division and its digital-advertising services.

The e-commerce giant likely will keep expanding the business service internationally -- currently in eight countries -- in response to demand from customers, said Prentis Wilson, an Amazon vice president who oversees the division.