Amazon Invests in Quebec to Create More Than 1,000 New Jobs and Bring Faster Delivery to Customers with Five New Facilities
January 19, 2021 at 10:21 pm IST
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Amazon announced its continued investment in Quebec with two new sortation centres and its first three delivery stations in the province. The five facilities will create more than 1,000 jobs with competitive pay, benefits and career growth opportunities starting on day one. Two new sortation centres in Coteau-du-Lac and Longueuil create more than 1,000 jobs. Amazon is opening its largest sortation centre in the province in Coteau-du-Lac in 2021. The 520,000 square foot facility will create at least 500 jobs. Amazon's first sortation centre in Quebec celebrated its day one in Longueuil in 2020, just in time to deliver a successful peak holiday season for customers, creating 500 jobs. The 200,000 square foot facility is located at 5799 Route de l'Aéroport. Before customer delivery, boxes packaged at Amazon's customer fulfillment sites travel via Amazon's transportation network, called the middle mile, while delivery to a customer's doorstep is referred to as the last mile. Packages leaving fulfillment centres are transported by Amazon's freight and air networks, then land at one of Amazon's sort centers, where they're sorted by postal code before going to a delivery station. Three new delivery stations in 2021 and 2022 will employ hundreds of new positions. Amazon's first two delivery stations in Quebec will open in 2021: one will be located in Laval at 5555 Ernest-Cormier and the other will be located in Lachine at 1100 and 1200 Rue Norman. Amazon's third delivery station will open in 2022 in Laval at 2700 Francis Hughes. These delivery stations will add hundreds of full-time and part-time jobs in addition to the company's sort centre expansion. Delivery stations power the last mile of Amazon's order fulfillment process. Packages are transported to delivery stations from Amazon fulfillment and sortation centres, and then loaded into vehicles for delivery to customers. Amazon opened its first operations facility in Quebec in July 2020, a fulfillment centre in Lachine, creating 300 full-time jobs.
Amazon.com, Inc. is one of the world leaders in on-line distribution of products to the general public. The group also operates a marketplace activity, allowing individuals and distribution companies to conduct their purchase and selling transactions for goods and services. The activity is organized around three families of products and services:
- electronic and computer products: toys, cameras, computers, laptops and peripherals, TVs, stereo systems, readers, wireless communication products, etc. Amazon.com also offers kitchen and garden equipment, clothing, beauty products, etc.;
- cultural products: books, musical products, video games and DVDs;
- other: primarily Internet interface and application development services.
Net sales break down by source of income between sales of services (55.5%) and sales of products (44.5%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (68.8%), Germany (6.5%), the United Kingdom (5.9%), Japan (4.5%), and other (14.3%).