The new office marks Amazon’s fourth office in Tamil Nadu and will take the company’s total office area in Tamil Nadu to over 21 lakh square feet. The company has four fulfilment centres and three sort centres. In 2021, Amazon set up its first devices manufacturing unit in India in Chennai and now, the company said hundreds of thousands of Fire TV Stick devices are manufactured in the facility.
“We are committed to create 20 lakh jobs, direct and indirect across the country by the year 2025,” Vinod Mathews, Director, Global Real Estate & Facilities, Amazon said. “The new office marks Amazon’s fourth office in Tamil Nadu reiterating our commitment to the state and the region. This new office is to further strengthen our presence and participation by supporting the country’s growth, creating employment opportunities and investing with a long term horizon.”
He said that Amazon first began operations in Tamil Nadu with close to 50 people based in Chennai in the year of 2005. Today, with over 14,000 employees in the state, Tamil Nadu has emerged as a significant location for the company’s people and business strategy.
The office was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu MK Stalin. “We believe that the launch of Amazon’s new office in Chennai will have a multiplier effect on the state economy. The expansion and investment will bind both the economic and social well-being of the state. We look forward to further investments by Amazon in Tamil Nadu focused on job creation and infrastructure expansion,” Stalin said in a statement.
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Mano Thangaraj, Minister of IT, Government of Tamil Nadu, Neeraj Mittal, Secretary, Department of IT, Government of Tamil Nadu and other senior officials from the state government were also present at the event.
