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.
Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.1 - Warehousing and storage
750 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 January 2011
Employment effect (start)
29 December 2011
Foreseen end date
Description
Internet retailer Amazon has announced an expansion in Scotland which will 950 new jobs. Most jobs will come from the company's newly built distribution center in Dunfermline, Fife, which will be Amazon's biggest in the UK at a million square feet. The company has said that it will open the site towards the end of the year.
Update 10.7.11
Amazon has announced that it will create 750 permanent and up to 1500 seasonal jobs in the new distribution centre in Scotland.
Sources
10 July 2011: The Telegraph
13 January 2011: BBC Website
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Amazon, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71429, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71429.
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