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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Via Stalls And Markets Or Other 47.91 - Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 March 2021
Employment effect (start)
8 March 2021
Foreseen end date
31 October 2021
Description
As announced on 8 March 2021, the US retail giant Amazon will be opening a new distribution centre in Schkeuditz in autumn 2021 which will create 120 new jobs. The new centre will act as a stopover for parcels arriving from Amazon’s own logistic centres which will be picked up by local delivery drivers for the parcels’ final delivery.
In 2020, Amazon already opened its first regional air freight centre in the same region at Leipzig-Halle airport.
Eurofound (2021), Amazon, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 103866, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103866.
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