List of Amazon.com locations

This is a list of locations in which American corporation Amazon.com does business.

Headquarters

Amazon.com's former headquarters in the Pacific Medical Center building in Beacon Hill, Seattle

Amazon's global headquarters are in 14 buildings in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, developed primarily by Vulcan, Inc. from 2008 onward. The first 11 buildings were acquired from Vulcan in 2012 at a cost of $1.16 billion.[1][2] The company was previously headquartered in rented space within the Pacific Medical Center, located in the city's Beacon Hill neighborhood, from 1998 to 2011.[3][4]

Amazon is currently building a new three-tower complex in Seattle's Denny Triangle neighborhood to serve as its new headquarters. The plan, designed by NBBJ and named "Rufus 2.0" after a dog who was part of the company in its early days,[5][6] was approved by the city of Seattle in 2012 and construction began the year after.[7][8] The first of the towers, nicknamed Doppler, opened on December 14, 2015.[9][10]

The European headquarters are in Luxembourg's capital, Luxembourg City.[11]

Software development centers

While much of Amazon's software development occurs in Seattle, the company employs software developers in centers across the globe. Some of these sites are run by an Amazon subsidiary called A2Z Development.[12]

Customer service centers

Fulfillment and warehousing

Fulfillment centers are located in the following cities, often near airports. Amazon Fulfillment centers can also provide warehousing and order-fulfillment for third-party sellers, for an extra fee.[26] Third-party sellers can use Fulfillment by Amazon, or FBA, to sell on other platforms as well, such as eBay or their own websites.[27]

Warehouses are large and each has hundreds of employees. Employees are responsible for four basic tasks: unpacking and inspecting incoming goods; placing goods in storage and recording their location; picking goods from their computer recorded locations to make up an individual shipment; and shipping. A computer that records the location of goods and maps out routes for pickers plays a key role: employees carry hand-held computers which communicate with the central computer and monitor their rate of progress. A picker may walk 10 or more miles a day. In the United Kingdom initial staffing was provided by Randstad Holding and other temporary employment agencies. Some workers are accepted as Amazon employees and granted pension and shares of stock; others are dismissed. "When we have permanent positions available, we look to the top performing temporary associates to fill them."[28] Development of a high level of automation is anticipated in the future following Amazon's 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems, a warehouse automation company.

Customer Service Center in Huntington, West Virginia
Amazon.es warehouse in San Fernando de Henares, Madrid, Spain)

Other

Closed fulfillment, warehousing and customer service locations

These US distribution centers have been closed: SDC Seattle Distribution Center, located in Georgetown, just south of downtown Seattle; Red Rock, Nevada; Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; Munster, Indiana; and McDonough, Georgia.[45][46][47] From 2000[48] until February 2001, there was an Amazon customer service based in The Hague, Netherlands.[49][50]

References

  1. ↑ Martinez, Amy; Pryne, Eric (October 5, 2012). "Amazon gobbles up campus for $1 billion". The Seattle Times. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ Pryne, Eric (December 21, 2012). "Amazon's billion-dollar South Lake Union deal closes". The Seattle Times. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ Pryne, Eric (December 22, 2007). "Amazon to make giant move to South Lake Union". The Seattle Times. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ Pryne, Eric (September 28, 2012). "PacMed Center lease bites dust". The Seattle Times. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  5. ↑ Pryne, Eric (June 8, 2012). "Amazon's 3-block complex has a timetable — and a name". The Seattle Times. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Amazon at Denny Triangle: Work Global, Live Local". NBBJ. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  7. ↑ Kirk Johnson; Nick Wingfield (August 25, 2013). "As Amazon Stretches, Seattle's Downtown Is Reshaped". The New York Times. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
  8. ↑ Cohen, Aubrey (November 30, 2012). "Seattle OKs Amazon towers". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  9. ↑ Greene, Jay (December 14, 2015). "Workers move in to the first of Amazon's downtown towers". The Seattle Times. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  10. ↑ Demmitt, Jacob (December 14, 2015). "Amazon launches new era with opening of first tower at new Seattle campus". GeekWire. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  11. ↑ Roland, Denise (January 16, 2015). "Here's why the EU thinks Luxembourg is helping Amazon avoid tax". The Telegraph. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  12. 1 2 Woo, Stu (July 1, 2011). "California Online Tax Law Pressures Amazon". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  13. ↑ Novak, Shonda (November 12, 2014). "Sources: Amazon.com to bring 200-plus tech jobs to Austin". Austin-American Statesman. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  14. ↑ Kirsner, Scott (December 23, 2011). "Amazon plans Cambridge office". Boston Globe. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  15. ↑ Neibauer, Michael. "Amazon's Herndon employees will earn $114K on average". Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  16. ↑ Kirsner, Scott. "Amazon plans Irvine development center".
  17. ↑ "Charleston". a2z.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  18. ↑ "San Luis Obispo". a2z.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  19. ↑ "Amazon Minneapolis".
  20. ↑ "Amazon expanding Detroit presence". Retrieved 2016-06-28.
  21. ↑ "Amazon Austria".
  22. ↑ "Amazon taps germany for engineers".
  23. ↑ "Amazon launches technology development centre in Gdansk".
  24. ↑ González, Ángel. "Amazon opens new development center in Madrid". Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  25. ↑ Amazon chooses 1stream call center solutions for South Africa, Retrieved, February 1, 2012.
  26. ↑ Fulfillment by Amazon from the company's website
  27. ↑ [FBA - Multi-Channel Fulfillment FBM or FBA] Retrieved April 16, 2015.
  28. 1 2 Sarah O’Connor (February 8, 2013). "Amazon unpacked: The online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why are some employees less than happy?". Financial Times. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  29. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 "Amazon Distribution Network".
  30. ↑ Manahan, Kim. "Construction on Amazon warehouse to start by next month - Middletown, DE". Middletown Transcript. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  31. ↑ "Amazon fulfillment center to bring 1,000 jobs to Edgerton". Kansas City Star. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  32. ↑ "Amazon.com To Open Baltimore Distribution Center, Giving Area 1,000+ Jobs". Baltimore.cbslocal.com. October 22, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  33. ↑ Amazon to start collecting sales tax from Maryland shoppers. Retrieved December 13, 2014
  34. ↑ Mike Davis / The Times of Trenton. "Amazon's new mega-warehouse in Robbinsville ships first order - A sonic water jet system". NJ.com. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  35. ↑ Swiatecki, Chad (August 20, 2015). "E-commerce giant to hire 1,000 in new San Marcos facility". Austin Business Journal. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
  36. ↑ James, Andrea (August 19, 2008). "A peek at the quietly expanding AmazonFresh". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved August 19, 2008.
  37. ↑ Gillie, John (May 5, 2011). "Amazon to open Sumner warehouse, hire several hundred". The News Tribune. Archived from the original on October 21, 2014. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
  38. ↑ "Amazon.com preps to move into first Kenosha building - Milwaukee - Milwaukee Business Journal". Milwaukee Business Journal. October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
  39. ↑ "Amazon to locate centre on Delta's Annacis Island". delta-optimist.com. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
  40. ↑ "Warehouse Deals address". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
  41. ↑ "Call for jobs to go to locals". Wales Online. May 24, 2007. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
  42. ↑ "Jobs boost as web warehouse opens". BBC News. April 16, 2008. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
  43. ↑ Giacomo Dotta (October 27, 2011). "Amazon mette radici in Italia". Webnews.it. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
  44. ↑ "Amazon otvára v Bratislave centrum podpory predaja, hľadá 200 ľudí". profimedia.sk. June 14, 2011. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  45. ↑ Flach, Tim (April 28, 2011). "McClatchy, Thursday, April 28, 2011". Mcclatchydc.com. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  46. ↑ amazon.com shuttering 3 US distribution centers, a March 2009 Computer World article
  47. ↑ Recent Layoffs at Area Technology Companies, a January 2001 SeattlePI article Archived December 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  48. ↑ Wolverton, Troy (January 13, 2000). "Amazon adds East Coast customer service center". CNET. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
  49. ↑ "Amazon.com Releases 2001 Second Quarter Results.". thefreelibrary.com. July 23, 2001. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
  50. ↑ Spector, Robert (2002). Amazon.com: Get Big Fast. HarperCollins. p. 243. ISBN 0066620422. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
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