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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
2,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 May 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2018
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
Online retailer Amazon has announced to create a new warehouse site at Bretigny-sur-Orge, by the end of 2018. According to Le Figaro, Amazon will recruit 2,000 employees for this new site. It will be its largest warehouse site in France with 200,000 square metres (Amazon has currently four warehouse sites in Saran, Montélimar, Sevrey and Lauwin-Planque). In February 2017, Amazon already announced to create 1,500 positions in France by 2017. Job creation were recorded on the ERM Database six times since 2007 : 200 positions in 2007, 250 in 2010, 400 in 2012, 2,500 in 2014, 450 in September 2016 and 250 in November 2016.
Sources
4 May 2017: Le Figaro
5 May 2017: Business Insider
5 May 2017: Les Echos
9 May 2017: Le Parisien
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Amazon, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 90947, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90947.
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