Amazon opens new Northampton fulfilment centre as part of £1bn investment
Amazon has opened a new fulfilment centre in Northampton and announced plans for a second site in nearby Kettering.
The two developments will take the retailer’s total investment in Northamptonshire to more than £1 billion with the creation of over 4,000 jobs.
Subscribe to TRBAmazon said the Northampton site is one of the most advanced logistics operations in the UK, with the storage of tens of millions of items across three floors of robotics.
The 900,000-square-foot Kettering site will process around 20 million items each week. Recruitment is currently underway for the 2,000 engineers, HR and IT professionals, finance specialists, and operations teams needed at the site.
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 and a new tech HQ in Swansea. We said we’d deliver and we have. And we’re only a year in.”
The company has also announced that it has expanded its London headquarters in Shoreditch with the opening of a third building. The site is now home to around 6,000 employees working on products and technology for Amazon and includes more than 140 collaboration spaces for teams to come together.
