Amazon is investing over one billion euros within the Belgian market over the following three years. The American firm goals to enhance the client expertise for Belgian customers and assist small and medium-sized companies develop each domestically and internationally.
This marks Amazon’s largest funding in Belgium up to now, supporting jobs, infrastructure improvement, and Belgian partnerships, together with with bpost. The funding quantity will likely be unfold through the years 2025 by 2027.
For customers and ecommerce companies
Each Belgian customers and corporations are set to learn from this funding. Eva Faict, Nation Supervisor for Amazon Belgium and the Netherlands, states: “Our deliberate funding of greater than a billion euros in Belgium will go in the direction of increasing our logistics community, enhancing our supply capabilities, and strengthening our native infrastructure to higher serve Belgian clients.”
‘We’re strengthening our native infrastructure’
Faict additional explains: “This new funding will permit us to additional assist Belgian entrepreneurs with our know-how and experience, whereas persevering with to supply clients low costs, wider product choice, and sooner supply choices.”
Amazon in Belgium
Since 2015, Amazon claims to have contributed greater than 350 million euros to Belgium’s GDP. The contribution has been significantly vital in recent times, as Amazon has been specializing in the Belgian market with a devoted web site for the previous three years. Final 12 months, its contribution to GDP was estimated at 140 million euros.
In October 2022, Amazon launched Amazon.com.be for the Belgian market, which was beforehand served by websites in France, the Netherlands, and Germany. In the identical month, Amazon opened its first logistics centre within the nation, in Antwerp.
Ecommerce in Belgium
Ecommerce in Belgium is extremely internationalized, with international corporations dominating the market. Amazon primarily competes with massive on-line gamers from the Netherlands, resembling bol and Coolblue.
Amazon in Belgium primarily competes with Dutch corporations
By means of Amazon, smaller and medium-sized on-line sellers in Belgium also can develop past their very own borders, the corporate emphasizes. Prior to now three years, Amazon has helped greater than a thousand Belgian companies attain new clients.
Amazon and the European Economic system
Amazon recurrently proclaims how a lot it invests in and contributes to worldwide markets, each at a nationwide and continental degree. Final 12 months, the corporate claimed to have invested 55 billion euros within the European economic system, contributing 41 billion euros to the European gross home product (GDP). Amazon employs lots of of hundreds of everlasting workers throughout the continent.
