Overview
- Amazon confirmed it will shut the Marston Gate fulfilment centre in Bedfordshire after a collective consultation that began in January.
- The company has started individual consultations and says all roughly 500 employees can transfer to the new Northampton site or other locations.
- The Northampton fulfilment centre is due to open in May, will feature thousands of robots, and is expected to employ about 2,000 people by year-end.
- Marston Gate opened in 1998 as Amazon’s first UK warehouse and handled nearly a billion items over its life at the 550,000 sq ft site near junction 13 of the M1.
- Amazon says a separate sortation centre in Milton Keynes is unaffected, signalling a targeted consolidation of older space into larger, automated hubs.