The US online retailer Amazon plans to invest more than 15 billion euros in France over three years. The company announced “three new logistics locations” on Monday. These are intended to enable the creation of 1,000 permanent jobs and are in addition to the more than 7,000 positions that were already promised at the beginning of May.
“Amazon is strengthening its presence in France with three new logistics locations in the Pays de la Loire, Ile-de-France and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions,” the e-commerce giant said in a press release. The announcement was made at the annual ‘Choose France’ summit. This is organized by the Elysée Palace to attract foreign investment.
At the request of the AFP news agency, Amazon specified that it would be a distribution center and two delivery depots. “These new investments reflect our confidence in the economic potential of the regions,” said Jean-Baptiste Thomas, managing director of Amazon in France, according to the statement. “Together with the distribution center in Ensisheim, Alsace, planned for the end of 2027, these four locations represent an investment of more than 400 million euros and will create more than 3,000 permanent jobs,” the company assures in its statement.
The new locations are part of the investment plan announced by Amazon at the beginning of May. At over 15 billion euros by 2028, this is the company’s largest to date in France. “This will bring the number of jobs created by the company to over 8,000,” it added. The creation of these jobs “will begin as early as 2026 with the imminent opening of three distribution centers in Illiers-Combray (Eure-et-Loir), Beauvais (Oise) and Colombier-Saugnieu (Rhône),” the logistics company emphasized at the beginning of May.
Also planned is the expansion of capacities for cloud services and artificial intelligence as well as the consolidation of the existing network. “Between 2019 and 2025 we opened two warehouses. In 2026 we will open three and next year two more,” summarized Thomas in an interview with Ouest-France on Monday.
The American giant, founded in 1994, has been operating in France since 2000. It was the third country in which the company expanded outside the United States, after Germany and the United Kingdom.
The group has been facing competition from Asian platforms for several years. He claims to have “invested more than 30 billion euros in the French economy” since 2010. It also employs “more than 25,000 employees in permanent employment contracts at over 35 locations”.
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