According to the announcement on July 7 by Amazon · dot com, we are planning to build a "second head office" that will become a new business base in North America, leaving the head office in Seattle, Washington, The investment amount is assumed to be 5 billion dollars, and Japanese yen is estimated to be about 530 billion yen.

The solicitation battle between local governments is likely to overheat as soliciting candidate municipalities, mainly in urban areas with a population of 1 million or more, and bringing a high economic effect to the region as workers of up to 50,000 work. .
It is next year to announce the planned construction site.

Amazon, which employs 380,000 people worldwide, continues to grow rapidly through online mail order, and has expanded its business by acquiring the American wholesale supermarket "Whole Foods Market" last month .

CEO Jeff Bezos said: "The second headquarters will be the same base as the Seattle headquarters, creating a lot of investment and high wage employment, I'm thrilled with my second hometown search" I commented.