Amazon has been present in Luxembourg for 20 years. To mark the occasion, the e-commerce giant, which is controlled by its parent company in Seattle, provided some key figures and dates for its business in the grand duchy.
20 years in Luxembourg, 11 in Kirchberg
Amazon set up its European headquarters in Luxembourg in 2003, in the Grund and Clausen districts. “We had grown so much that our offices could no longer accommodate everyone,” the director of global customer experience for Amazon Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF), Alex Goldswain, stated on an Amazon blog. In 2012, the company then took on a new office in Kirchberg in 2019.
7 buildings
Today, seven buildings make up its Kirchberg campus.
4,250 employees
The firm has 4,250 permanent staff in Luxembourg, representing more than 100 nationalities. Their tasks range from product and programme management to software development and engineering. “Luxembourg’s location at the heart of Europe makes it particularly well suited to hosting our pan-European logistics and supply chain teams, as well as our employees in regional and global positions”, the company stated.
€6.6bn ‘invested’
Amazon claimed to have “invested” more than €6.6bn in Luxembourg between 2010 and 2022, including €1.5bn in 2022. Infrastructure and employee remuneration are included in this amount.
According to the Trade and Companies Register (RCS), Amazon EU Sàrl had turnover of €50.896bn in 2022. This represented consolidated sales of €513.983bn worldwide.
Four partner schools, plus uni
Amazon has also set up partnerships with the Lycée Technique de Lallange, the Michel Lucius International School, the Lycée Michel Lucius and the Lycée Robert Schuman. Students can visit the company’s offices, talk to its employees and take part in workshops on technological subjects ranging from artificial intelligence to coding. The e-commerce giant is also working with the University of Luxembourg to support thesis projects and the use of Amazon Web Services processors in research into high-performance computing.
Originally published in French by and translated for Delano.