Amazon hails "billion pound" investment in Northamptonshire
4000 local jobs are being created by the retail giant
Amazon has announced a significant expansion in Northamptonshire, with investments surpassing £1 billion and the creation of more than 4,000 jobs.
A new fulfilment centre has launched in Northampton, while the online giant also plans to open a large operational facility in Kettering this autumn.
That site will be the UK’s largest cross-dock facility, processing around 20 million items each week.
It is set to create over 2,000 permanent positions and numerous seasonal roles.
Recruitment is already underway for a range of positions including engineers, HR and IT professionals, and operations teams.
In Northampton, the new £500 million fulfilment centre, one of the advanced logistics operations in the UK, has begun customer deliveries.
This facility stores tens of millions of items and utilises thousands of Hercules robots that retrieve products.
John Boumphrey, Amazon UK country manager, said: “A year ago we said we planned to invest £40 billion in the UK. Today you can see what that means – from 4,000 jobs in Northamptonshire and 2,000 in Hull, to drone deliveries from Darlington, a new tech HQ in Swansea. We said we'd deliver and we have. And we're only a year in.”