Amazon to create 2000 jobs in France

Paris, February 15: As France is the largest market in Europe after Britain and Germany, online retailer Amazon has planned to hire 2000 permanent contracts this year.

The increase will bring Amazon’s total number of permanent French staff to 7,500 in 2018 and reflects confidence in the economy of a country where the Seattle-based retailer invested over 2 billion euros since 2010, the company said in a statement.

Amazon has been expanding steadily in France where it has run its Amazon Prime Now express delivery service in Paris since 2016 and it already has five logistics centres nationwide and plans to open a 142,000-square-foot delivery warehouse in 2018.

“The French economic context gives us confidence and encourages us to invest,” Frederic Duval, head of Amazon France, said. “We have more customers, so more business, and as we have more business, we hire more. We think this level activity is sustainable, thus we’re hiring people with permanent contracts.”

The plans are the latest sign that France’s long-awaited economic recovery is starting to generate jobs.