| Amazon continues its march forward this week, with latest news from its most recent North East addition, as well as potential plans at a prime site in Wales.
The global retail juggernaut announced a big reshuffle of its UK operations at the start of the year, including the closure of three older factories and a number of its smaller delivery depots and the creation of two new major centres – moves to protect the future of the business, it said at the time.
Those plans were on top of its existing expansion plans, which include the creation of a new fulfilment centre on Teesside, set to be decked out with the latest in its Amazon Robotics tech.
This week Amazon has confirmed that centre will start taking orders from October, and will need 2,000 employees, with a recruitment drive now under way for the first 1,000. Read more on that story here.
More intriguing is news that Amazon Web Services is in the frame to take on the former Ford plant in Bridgend, where production came to a halt in 2020.
Amazon Web Services is in negotiations to acquire the plant, with the site's existing electricity connection to the National Grid making it an attractive proposition as part of its strategy of ramping up its capacity in the UK.
If a deal is done, Amazon Web Services would build a new data centre, which could see the existing main building demolished.
Read more on the story here. |
