Solely three years after launching a devoted on-line retailer for Belgium, Amazon has grown into the nation’s second-largest on-line retailer. The corporate is investing closely in Belgium. A part of the funding goes towards same-day supply from Amazon’s distribution heart in Hoboken, close to Antwerp.
Logistics in Belgium
Final month, Amazon introduced an funding of greater than 1 billion euros within the Belgian market, unfold throughout the years 2025 by way of 2027. Within the Flemish newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen, nation supervisor Eva Faict shares some extra particulars. She does so from the nation’s solely logistics centre, opened within the fall of 2022 when Amazon.com.be additionally went stay.
Round 100 individuals work there on common, roughly half of them employed instantly and half by way of temp businesses, primarily at evening. They put together parcels — shipped from Amazon warehouses in Germany and France — for supply to prospects in Belgium. Amazon works with fourteen associate corporations for the ultimate supply. “We’ve loads of room to develop”, Faict says in regards to the logistics facility.
Identical-day supply
Amazon needs to win over extra Belgian buyers with its acquainted mixture of a large product choice, low costs and quick supply choices. A part of the capital injection will go towards same-day supply, says Faict. “We aren’t going to try this for all merchandise straight away, however for gadgets individuals prefer to obtain as shortly as potential. Suppose diapers or toothpaste.”
‘Consider diapers or toothpaste for identical day supply’
To ship parcels on the identical day, Amazon is investing in its personal cargo bikes in busy city areas resembling Antwerp. “A part of our funding in Belgium goes towards these bikes”, says Faict, enabling Amazon to ship quicker and cleaner.
Amazon versus bol in Belgium
With a give attention to same-day supply, Amazon is following the lead of the Dutch on-line division retailer bol, the market chief in Belgium. In line with calculations by the College of Antwerp, Amazon has now climbed to the number-two place in Belgian ecommerce.
Amazon is now quantity two throughout all classes
Two years in the past, Amazon ranked fourth for furnishings and family merchandise and third for electronics. “At this time, Amazon is in second place throughout all classes and has overtaken Coolblue”, says ecommerce professor Roel Gevaers within the newspaper. “However bol nonetheless generates 2.5 occasions extra income than Amazon in Belgium and due to this fact clearly stays the market chief.”
Amazon within the Netherlands
Faict, who can also be nation supervisor for the Netherlands, is overseeing Amazon’s offensive in that nation as effectively. There, the corporate is investing greater than 1.4 billion euros out there over a three-year interval.
