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Amazon, the global shipping business, unveiled its massive London-area Fulfillment Centre Tuesday, offering a glimpse behind the curtain on how it gets all that stuff, to all those places, so quickly
Amazon, the global shipping business, unveiled its massive London-area fulfillment centre Tuesday, offering a glimpse of how it gets all that stuff to all those places so quickly.
PHOTOS: Inside Amazon’s new fulfilment centre
Amazon’s new robotic fulfilment centre, named YXU1 after the code name for London International Airport, opens Oct. 1. The 186,000-square-metre (two-million-square-foot) facility in Southwold Township will employ more than 1,000 workers who will pick, pack and ship up to 750,000 items a day with the help of robotics technology. Free Press photographer Derek Ruttan toured […]
New doughnut shop adds hole new dimension to Old East Village revitalization
London’s Old East Village is home to a just-opened coffee and handmade doughnut shop, a new business its owner hopes will help bring the neighbourhood together and revitalize the core.
Still-new London energy drink maker expanding into U.S. markets
A London-based energy drink company is expanding into the United States months after launching in Canada.
Strathroy lands $45M plant that will make insulated metal panels
A Quebec company that manufactures insulated metal panels is expanding to Ontario with a $45-million plant west of London. Norbec, which also manufactures walk-in coolers and freezers, is building a 23,225-square-metre (250,000-square-feet) plant on nine hectares of industrial land in Strathroy. Along with two plants in Quebec, the facility at 990 Wright St. will help […]