- The three-year plan from Amazon includes 40 billion pounds of investment in the United Kingdom
- “Thousands” of jobs that should be created on new and improved sites
- Most advantages will be observed in regions generally neglected by such investments
Amazon has announced its intention to invest 40 billion pounds in the United Kingdom in a period of three years spanning between 2025 and 2027.
The investment of several billion pounds will finance the expansion of Amazon operations in the United Kingdom, leading to more jobs, improving national GDP and strengthening the infrastructure on which Amazon relies (and therefore other British consumers and businesses).
The huge sum is not insignificant-the United Kingdom is the third market in Amazon, after the United States and Germany, two nations which have already experienced billions of investments covering both the electronic commerce infrastructure and sovereign cloud efforts.
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Benefiting from his job as employer in the private sector among the first 10 across the United Kingdom, with more than 75,000 citizens who are part of its workforce, Amazon said that its last investment would create thousands of other jobs, the “vast majority” should be far from London and the South-East.
Four new Amazon centers in terms of realization are in the pipeline, including two in the East Midlands, one in Hull and another in Northampton – the last two plans to generate 2,000 jobs each.
The company also said that its investment would be almost equal when it comes to stimulating the GDP of the United Kingdom, which Amazon plans to add 38 billion pounds to the British economy.
In addition to adding other delivery stations across the United Kingdom, Amazon also plans to upgrade more than 100 operational buildings and open two others at its head office in East London.
Promising a minimum wage of £ 28,000 for full -time workers (and £ 30,000 in London), robotics technicians, security experts and mecatronic engineers will be among the more than 60 roles offered by the company as part of its enormous investment.
“When Amazon is investing, it is not only in London and in the South-East-we provide innovation and job creation in communities through England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, strengthening the economy of the United Kingdom and offering better experiences for customers wherever they live,” noted the CEO of Amazon Andy Jassy.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised the “thousands of new jobs”, which he described as offering “real opportunities for people in every corner of the country to acquire careers, acquire new skills and support their families”.
“Amazon’s investment of 40 billion pounds sterling adds another major victory to the British basket and is a voting of massive confidence in the United Kingdom as the best place to do business.”, He added.
