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Amazon promotes John Boumphrey to UK country manager

Online retail giant Amazon has named vice president of fashion, John Boumphrey as the new boss of its UK operations. Boumphrey joined Amazon nine years ago as director of media in the UK, before taking over the role of vice president of Amazon Fashion Europe, where he launched new fashion brands and programmes, including Prime Wardrobe,...

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Amazon to create over 2,000 UK jobs this year

Retail giant Amazon has announced plans to create over 2,000 permanent jobs in the UK in 2019, increasing its total permanent workforce to more than 29,500. The company said it is looking for engineers, software developers, data scientists, and cloud and machine learning experts, along with a number of entry-level positions. Of the jobs created,...