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European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
The US-owned online retailer Amazon announced that it will create 500 additional positions at its new distribution centre in Łódź, Poland, by the end of 2020. The decision means that in total 600 employees are expected to be hired at the Łódź branch (a plan of the creation of 100 jobs was announced by Amazon in May 2020). The company declared that the new 40,000-square-metre centre will be expanded by another 33,000 square metres.
Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company, currently has over 40 logistics centres in 8 countries and employs around 798,000 employees worldwide. Amazon has been operating in Poland since 2014 and employs over 16,000 people in nine distribution centres across the country.
Eurofound (2020), Amazon, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 101493, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/101493.