Amazon opening new fulfilment centre in Bristol next year

Amazon has announced plans to open a new fulfilment centre in Bristol in 2018. In a statement issued today (16 August), Amazon said that it will be creating more than 1,000 new permanent jobs in the local area and recruitment will begin next year.

Amazon previously announced that it will open fulfilment centres in Dunstable, Doncaster, Tilbury and Warrington in 2017, creating more than 3,500 new permanent jobs.  The Daventry site opened in February while Doncaster, Warrington and Tilbury will begin operations in the autumn.

Amazon currently has 13 fulfilment centres in the UK. As well as the recently opened Daventry site, there are two fulfilment centres in Doncaster and one each in Coalville (Leicestershire), Dunfermline, Dunstable, Gourock, Hemel Hempstead, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Rugeley and Swansea Bay.