Zappos.com

Zappos.com left San Francisco way back in 2004. Since then it's become closely associated with its new home in Nevada. In fact, CEO Tony Hsieh is working to revitalize downtown Las Vegas, in part by turning it into a startup hub. At the same time, the Amazon.com-owned online retailer hasn't entirely severed its connection to the Bay Area. In 2010, it reopened an office in San Francisco, one that's focused on experimenting with cool new ideas.

Puget Sound Business Journal Online shoe retailer Zappos.com, which was bought by Amazon.com Inc. in 2009 and is the largest employer in Bullitt County, Ky., will officially be known as Amazon in Kentucky. The Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal reports Zappos is making the move on Sept. 1 to take advantage of parent Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) massive warehouse distribution capability, instead of building additional warehouse space on its own. No employees are expected to lose jobs with the name change. See all your followed company news on your personalized dashboard. To access the full benefits of bizWatch and receive a weekly

Online shoe seller Zappos.com has been a runaway success in its first nine years of business. The company, which thrives on wowing customers with over-the-top customer service, also tends to wow people in the multichannel business with its open-book policy when it comes to inside company details. Below are some figures its Chairman/COO/CFO Alfred Lin revealed at a luncheon presentation during last week’s National Conference on Operations & Fulfillment in Orlando, Fla. When questioned by Catalog Success during his presentation whether the company was profitable, Lin said that after breaking even during its first six years, it did post profits in 2006 and ’07.