Jun 16, 2017 - Technology
Where Whole Foods ranks among Amazon acquisitions
- Dan Primack, author of Axios Pro Rata
Amazon on Friday made the largest deal in its 23-year history, agreeing to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion. This is by far its largest corporate acquisition (per Thomson Reuters), dwarfing its $970 million purchase of live video streaming platform Twitch and the $1.2 billion purchase of its Seattle headquarters from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.