Amazon has been investing over one billion euros in the Belgian market in the next three years. The aim of the American company is to improve customer experience for Belgian shoppers and help small and medium -sized businesses grow at domestic and international level.
This means the largest investment of Amazon in Belgium, supports jobs, infrastructure development and Belgian partnership, including BPOST. The amount of the investment will be distributed over 2025 by 2027.
For companies shoppers and electronic trading
Belgian consumers and companies should benefit from this investment. Eva Faict, manager of the country for Amazon Belgium and the Netherlands, states: “Our planned investment more than a billion euros in Belgium will go to expand our logistics network, strengthen our delivery skills and strengthen our local infrastructure to better serve Belgian customers.”
“We strengthen our local infrastructure”
Faict also explains: “This new investment will allow us to further support Belgian entrepreneurs with our technologies and expertise, while offering customers low prices, wider selection of products and faster delivery options.”
Amazon in Belgium
Since 2015, Amazon has claimed that he has contributed more than EUR 350 million to Belgian GDP. The contribution has been particularly significant in recent years, as Amazon has been focusing on the Belgian website in the last three years. Last year, his contribution to GDP was estimated at 140 million euros.
In October 2022, Amazon launched Amazon.com.be for the Belgian market, previously serving websites in France, the Netherlands and Germany. In the same month Amazon opened his first logistics center in the country in Antwerp.
Electronic trade in Belgium
Ectomtrece in Belgium is highly internationalized and foreign companies dominate the market. Amazon primarily competes with large online players from the Netherlands, such as Bol and Coolblue.
Amazon in Belgium competes mainly with Dutch companies
Through Amazon, smaller and medium online sellers in Belgium can also expand to its own borders, the company emphasizes. In the last three years, Amazon has helped more than a thousand Belgian businesses to address new customers.
Amazon and the European Economy
Amazon regularly announces how much he invests and contributes to international markets, both at both national and continental levels. Last year, the company claimed that it invested EUR 55 billion in the European economy and contributed 41 billion euros to the European gross domestic product (GDP). Amazon employs millions of permanent employees throughout the continent.
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