US Internet giant Amazon has given up plans to build a distribution centre
in a Brno industrial zone and is looking for other locality in Central and
Eastern Europe, Amazon´s spokesman for the Czech Republic Karel Taschner
has told the Czech News Agency. Amazon was promising investment of almost 3
billion crowns and creation of 1,500 jobs in Brno. Locals, however,
expressed concern over increased road traffic which they consider to be
beyond tenable already. The Amazon spokesman for the Czech Republic made
clear that Amazon was still open to looking for further opportunities in
the Czech Republic, given European market growth. One project is going
ahead: the construction of Amazon´s distribution centre in Dobroviz near
Prague, set to begin in the near future.