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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
4 May 2018
Employment effect (start)
4 May 2018
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
The US-owned retailer Amazon will be creating 2,000 new jobs in Germany by the end of 2018. Jobs will mainly be available at Amazon’s recently expanded site in Berlin, which focuses on research and development. Furthermore Amazon is looking for new employees to support its services AmazonFresh, Prime Video and the software Alexa.
Currently, Amazon has 16,000 employees in Germany.
Sources
4 May 2018: Sächsichen Zeitung (online)
8 May 2018: Chip (online)
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Amazon, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 93985, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93985.
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