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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
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 April 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2022
Foreseen end date
Description
Multinational e-commerce company Amazon is to launch a new production plant at the Panattoni Park Chomutov in October 2022. The new production hall with an area of almost 15,000 square meters will offer employment opportunities to 200 people. Production capacity will focus on printing T-shirts and accessories.According to the developer, the new site should meet measures to support biodiversity.Amazon currently operates in the Czech Republic in a distribution centre in DobrovÃz, near Prague. The second distribution centre is being built in KojetÃn in the PÅ™erov region. It is supposed to be completely robotic.
Eurofound (2022), Amazon, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 106666, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106666.
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