13/10/2014

Amazon To Create 1,000 New Jobs

One thousand new jobs are to be created at Amazon's distribution centres across the UK, the internet retailer has announced.

The jobs are to be created in the coming months across the firm's eight distribution and customer service centres.

The company said that it could not yet provide a regional breakdown of where the new jobs will be created.

Amazon currently employ some 6,000 people in the UK.

(MH/JP)

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