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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
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 October 2021
Employment effect (start)
20 October 2021
Foreseen end date
31 July 2022
Description
The US-owned online retailer, Amazon, is going to open a new distribution center and will create 100 new jobs in Klangenfurt (Austria). After Großebersdorf and Vienna, Amazon is also setting up a location in Klagenfurt. The construction work for the 40 million euro centre is ongoing and it should become operational by July 2022. The company plans to hire 100 permanent and also 60 seasonal employees. The first recuitments have already started.
Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company, currently employs over 1,468,000 employees worldwide.
Eurofound (2021), Amazon, Business expansion in Austria, factsheet number 106368, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106368.
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