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.
Wholesale / Retail Retail trade Non-specialised retail sale 47.12 - Other non-specialised retail sale
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 March 2020
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
US e-commerce company Amazon announced the creation of 1000 new permanent jobs in its new logistic centre in Dos Hermanas near Seville to be recruited this summer. The centre will be equipped with Amazon robotics technology, to supply the high demand on the Spanish market (becoming the 4th automatized centre in Spain). This announcement comes after the company created 200 jobs in Murcia last February and 600 in the rest of the country during 2019. The recruitment process is initially planned during spring . New employees will be covered by the Collective Agreement of the Sevilla logistics sector. Amazon now employs around 7,000 workers in Spain and says it has invested 2.9 bn euro in the country - in infrastructure, wages etc - since 2011.
Eurofound (2020), Amazon, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 100042, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/100042.
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