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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles 47 - Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 July 2010
Employment effect (start)
2 July 2010
Foreseen end date
Description
Amazon.fr, the French subsidiary of American specialist in e-commerce Amazon.com (26,000 employees) implanted its second distribution platform in France in Montelimar (Drôme). The Platform will start recruiting the first of several hundred employees in the late August. "We are working in close collaboration with the employment public services (Pôle emploi) to recruit several hundred people before the end of the year," says Xavier Garambois, president of Amazon.
Update 25.11.2010: The company is reported to have recruited 250 people and is expecting to double this number by the end of the year.
Sources
1 July 2010: Les Echos
28 June 2010: Amazon (press release)
25 November 2010: L'usine Nouvelle
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Amazon, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 70785, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70785.
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