Posted on Nov 5, 2021, 12:10 PM
The American distribution giant has announced its plan to open a new delivery agency in Longvic, in the Dijon metropolis, in Côte-d’Or, while the one in Fontaine, in the Territoire de Belfort has just opened. Amazon already has a distribution center in Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire), which employs nearly 600 people, and is deployed in the regional territory as everywhere else in France.
“We have a rate of five delivery agencies per year and the trend will continue,” explains a spokesperson for the group in France. “By the end of 2021, we are therefore opening one near Belfort, and two others near Quimper and Perpignan. This last mile networking is to meet the demands of our customers, in a growing e-commerce sector ”.
The Dijon agglomeration agency will set up in Longvic, in a former FrancEole warehouse being rehabilitated by the Soremi property company, which will rent the premises to Amazon. Developer and user hope to obtain “very good” environmental certification from BREEAM.
“It matched”
“The building, whose rehabilitation is being carried out by a dozen local companies, will in particular be equipped with a partially green roof and charging stations for electric vehicles in all car parks”, indicates in a press release the American distributor, whose arrival is sometimes heckled by local populations for the model it promotes.
At Longvic, Amazon is expected to employ 50 employees on permanent contracts. The rehabilitation is underway, the agency will open in spring 2020 and recruitments will be carried out with Pôle emploi and Creativ ‘, a local cluster for employment and skills. The site is also expected to employ 200 people in independent distribution companies, Amazon says.
Solicited in March 2020 by the investor Soremi, the Dijon Métropole economic agency had identified the FrancEole wasteland as being able to meet the specifications and the project was carried out within a rather short timeframe. “We can say that it has matched”, indicates Danielle Juban, vice-president of the metropolis in charge of economic development, who is pleased with the creation of jobs in this sector, after the announcement of Giphar, at the beginning of 2021, of its decision to build a logistics platform in the metropolitan area.
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