Amazon to Open Two New Fulfillment Centers, Create 2,000 Jobs
April 27 2016 - 7:53AM
Dow Jones News
By Joshua Jamerson
Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday it would create 2,000 jobs in New
Jersey by opening two fulfillment centers in the state, as the
company seeks to broaden its logistics network amid increasing
demand.
Akash Chauhan, Amazon's vice president of North America
fulfillment operations, said in a news release that the company
generally places fulfillment centers close to consumers to provide
faster delivery times, and that the move was tied to climbing
customer demand.
Amazon will open new sites in Florence, with an 800,000
square-foot facility and about 1,500 employees, and in Carteret,
with a 600,000 square-foot center with about 500 employees.
The company currently has 5,500 full-time jobs in New Jersey,
with 500 associates at a center in Carteret.
Amazon has identified companies that provide fulfillment and
logistics services for themselves or for third parties as
competition, and the company has begun building a logistics network
that includes employee couriers completing the so-called last mile
of a package's journey to customers' homes. It is also developing
unmanned drones for package delivery.
Write to Joshua Jamerson at joshua.jamerson@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 27, 2016 07:38 ET (11:38 GMT)
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