Amazon is deepening its UK investment, putting more than £1bn into two sites in Northamptonshire and adding over 4,000 jobs in one of the largest single-county commitments of its £40bn UK programme.
The company has opened a £500M fulfilment centre in Northampton and confirmed a second £500M facility in nearby Kettering, due to open this autumn. The Northampton site spans three floors of robotics, where thousands of Amazon’s ‘Hercules’ robots carry shelves of stock to the people picking orders.
Kettering will become the UK’s largest cross-dock facility, a 900,000 sq ft hub that sorts and routes around 20 million items a week. It is set to create more than 2,000 permanent jobs, with the Northampton centre accounting for a similar number.
“A year ago we said we planned to invest £40 billion in the UK. Today you can see what that means,” said John Boumphrey, Amazon’s UK country manager. “We said we’d deliver and we have. And we’re only a year in.”
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!The investment forms part of a £40bn UK plan running from 2025 to 2027, of which Amazon says it has delivered more than £15bn. The company employs around 75,000 permanent staff across more than 100 UK sites, with frontline pay starting at almost £30,000 a year.
