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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
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 January 2021
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Amazon, the US-based tech and online retail company, has announced the creation of 200 new permanent jobs. Amazon will open its first 'delivery station' near Schiphol Airport.
The 8,500 square meters delivery station will just be used to sort parcel and will not serve as a warehouse for Amazon's products. So far, deliveries in the Netherlands were sorted at delivery stations in France and Germany, but with online sales increasing rapidly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the distribution network needs to be expanded. The delivery station will mainly be used to sort deliveries in the Amsterdam area, as orders have increased most in this region. However, analysts predict that this may just be the first step in the Netherlands and delivery stations in other regions may follow soon.
Eurofound (2021), Amazon, Business expansion in Netherlands, factsheet number 103342, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103342.
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