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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
8 November 2017
Employment effect (start)
8 November 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
American online retailer Amazon has announced that it will create over 1,000 jobs at its newly opened distribution centre in Kołbaskowo near Szczecin. The unit, with a space of 150,000 sq m and 3,000 robots, is worth PLN 410 million (EUR 96.80 million USD 114.17 million).
Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company, with headquarters in Seattle, US, currently employs around 541,600 employees worldwide. Amazon has been operating in Poland since 2014. In Poland the company has three distribution centres (Poznań and two units in Bielany Wrocławskie near Wrocław), Amazon Development Centre in Gdańsk and Amazon Web Services in Warsaw. Amazon Poland employs approximately 6,000 people.
Sources
8 November 2017: 24 Kurier
8 November 2017: Dla handlu
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Amazon, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 92521, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92521.
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