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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
13 February 2020
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
US e-commerce and cloud computing company Amazon announced the creation of 200 new permanent jobs in its new logistic centre in Murcia (together with indirect creation of jobs in the territory). The centre covers a 48,000 square meters area, and it is expected to host an 8,000 square meters warehouse for product distribution to make this plant the main logistic centre of the company for East and South Spain. In the medium long-term the company forecasts to create up to 1,000 jobs.
Eurofound (2020), Amazon, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 99816, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99816.
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