- Behind the wheel: Yorkshire logistics business finds route to success
- Gardener in the summer, associate in the winter
- We design your watching experience: the faces behind the Prime Video app
- Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to £10.50 for the London area and £9.50 for All Other Parts of the UK
- How much does Amazon love dogs? Just ask one of the 6,000 pups that “work” here.
We design your watching experience: the faces behind the Prime Video app
They love coding, experimenting with new ideas and, obviously, watching good TV. Sven, Silvia, Kam and Andy are part of a team of engineers and developers based in our Shoreditch development centre. Their mission? Constantly improving the way customers enjoy Prime Video.
Want to support the British Heart Foundation? Just ask Alexa
The British Heart Foundation has become the first UK charity to collect furniture, electrical items or donations through Amazon Alexa, to help the charity raise funds for pioneering research into heart and circulatory conditions such as coronary heart disease, stroke, vascular dementia and their risk factors like diabetes.
New solar power technology to be deployed across our UK fulfilment centres to boost sustainability
Up to 20MW of solar plus storage systems will be installed on fulfilment centre rooftops across the UK over the coming 18 months. We have also signed a deal ensuring 100% renewable electricity for our own UK buildings.
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Amazon signs Care Leaver Covenant
Amazon sign on to scheme to help care leavers develop their careers
Meet Claire: one of three women selected for the Amazon Women in Innovation Bursary
Claire Doherty is one of three women in the UK to be selected for our Amazon Women in Innovation Bursary, which provides funding for up to four years of university as well as access to an Amazon mentor, to encourage women to pursue a STEM career.
Our apprentices celebrate career milestone
We’re very excited to celebrate the career milestone that 20 apprentices from our Dunfermline fulfilment centre achieved, completing the prestigious Scottish Modern Apprenticeship in Logistics and Management programmes.
Small British businesses use Alexa to innovate
Laundrapp, a dry cleaning business in London, uses Alexa to innovate in a 150-year-old industry.
Join us! We’re creating over 2,500 permanent jobs in the UK this year
We are hiring up and down the country for roles in our head office, research and development, AWS and operations.
Come see where we work
Have you ever wondered what happens after you click ‘buy’ on Amazon.co.uk? Come and have a look for yourself.
Our new head office cements our long-term commitment to the UK
Our new head office is part of Amazon’s long-term commitment to the UK, having invested £6.4 billion here since 2010.
Hundreds of North West businesses come to the Amazon Manchester Academy
Small business owners heard from experts including the founder of Enterprise Nation, Damian Waters from the CBI North West, Grace Blakeley from think tank IPPR North, and Michael Taylor from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Apprentices at Amazon are creating their own opportunities
Elizabeth, Jonathon and Tomas. Three different stories, but one aspiration in common: the desire to accelerate their careers. They got a chance with Amazon’s apprenticeship programme.
2018 UK Kindle Storyteller Award win for Hannah Lynn
Hannah’s novel The Afterlife of Walter Augustus is an emotional and heart-warming story following a man stuck in the afterlife.
Amazon Growing Business Awards shortlist revealed
We are delighted to announce and congratulate the growing British businesses shortlisted for the 2018 Amazon Growing Business Awards.