E-commerce player Amazon India will add 14 Fulfillment Centres this calender year that will give a big boost to its storage capacity as well as create close to 5,000 new jobs.
Seven of them, to be set up in Telangana, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, will support its regular business, while the rest will be specialised facilities for large appliances and furniture.
Telangana that hosts one fulfillment centre, near Hyderabad, will get two more, a spokesperson said.
All the 14 facilities will be fully operational by the end of this quarter “to support the remarkable high double digit growth the company continues to see,” a release from Amazon on Tuesday said.
Post their commissioning, the company would have a total of 41 fulfillment centres and a cumulative storage capacity of over 13 million cubic feet. As of 2016, the capacity was 7.5 million cubic feet, the spokesperson added.
Besides this greenfield addition of new centres, Amazon has also announced doubling of storage capacity at its facility in Ahmedabad and six times more space at the urban centre in Delhi to support increased customer and seller demand.
“With close to 5,000 new jobs [to be] created by these 14 new FCs, we continue to remain committed to invest in infrastructure and technology in India,” said Akhil Saxena, Vice President, India Customer Fulfillment, Amazon India.
