Amazon opens £500m Northampton warehouse, adds 4,000 jobs

Amazon has launched a major expansion in Northamptonshire, opening a new fulfillment center in Northampton and confirming plans for a second facility in Kettering, representing a combined investment of one billion pounds. The move is expected to create more than 4,000 jobs across the county and forms a significant part of the company's broader 40 billion pound UK investment program.

The Northampton facility, a 550,000-square-foot warehouse at SEGRO Park, is now operational and handling customer deliveries. The site employs advanced automation, with thousands of Hercules robots moving inventory across three floors to assist hundreds of workers already picking, packing, and shipping orders. The company stated the center can store tens of millions of items. Amazon plans to create over 2,000 jobs at this location by December 2026.

A second, larger facility is scheduled to open in Kettering later this year. Spanning 900,000 square feet, the Kettering site is set to become Amazon's largest cross-dock operation in the United Kingdom. It is expected to sort and route approximately 20 million items each week to fulfillment centers and delivery stations nationwide. This facility is also...