Fife will today receive a major jobs boost from internet retailer Amazon, The Courier has learned.
The firm, which already has a base in Glenrothes, will announce the creation of over a hundred jobs in the Dunfermline area as part of a Scottish expansion.
Vice-president of European operations, Allan Lyall, will join First Minister Alex Salmond for a press conference in Edinburgh this afternoon to outline the full nature of the investment. Further details were unavailable last night.
The news comes just months after fears were raised over Amazon’s future in Glenrothes when Fife Council revealed plans to move into the company’s current premises at Bankhead Park. It emerged that the council had bought the building over the summer.
Amazon has previously been linked with Dunfermline, with speculation in 2006 that the firm was to create 1000 jobs in the town. The plans to establish a distribution centre came to nothing, however.
