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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
1,200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 March 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2007
Foreseen end date
31 December 2011
Description
The internet retailer Amazon is to create 1,200 full time and 1,500 seasonal jobs over the next 5 years with the opening of a new warehouse in Swansea Bay. Jobs range from distribution staff and management to IT support and pay would be 'very competitive for the area'. It is the company's fourth distribution centre in the UK - with others in Milton Keynes and in Scotland - and it said it will handle orders mainly for the home market but also abroad.
Allan Lyall, Amazon's vice president of European operations, said that as well as the company's more traditional books and CD market, they would be distributing electrical and household items. 'We feel that the site's great location, coupled with the ability to draw from a pool of strong local talent, will make this an extremely successful operation,' he added.
Three shifts of around 350 staff would work 24 hours a day packaging goods that would then be loaded on to lorries and transported across the country. Goods will be delivered in large volumes by suppliers - picked to fill individual orders, packed and then dispatched. It is estimated that 350 would be employed on each three shift system, seven days a week.
Sources
16 April 2008: BBC Website
16 March 2007: BBC News Website
30 March 2007: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Arlington Development Ltd, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 65089, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65089.
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