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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
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 November 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
The US-based online retailer Amazon announced the opening of a new logistic centre in Frankenthal and therefore the creation of 1,000 jobs by the end of 2017. The company will start to hire new staff members in spring 2017 and will go into operations at the end of 2017. The company is looking for logistics staff, engineers, IT- and human resources management and shipping employees. The 1,000 contracts will be open-ended. It will be the tenth logistic centre of the company in Germany as Amazon reported on growing demand. The US-based company already employs about 11,000 staff members for the logistics in Germany.
Sources
: Amazon logistic blog
3 November 2016: SWR (Online)
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Amazon, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 89094, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89094.
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