Giessen
City in the German state of Hesse.
Giessen, a city in the German state of Hesse, is gaining a new Zalando logistics site as part of the network realignment that is closing the retailer's Erfurt centre by the end of September 2026.
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Giessen is a city in the German state of Hesse.
Online retailer Zalando is opening a new logistics site there as part of a network realignment that closes its Erfurt centre in Thuringia by the end of September 2026, ending 2,100 jobs .
Zalando frames the move as consolidation following its acquisition of About You, not as an AI-driven headcount reduction, giving Giessen a new logistics presence at the same moment Erfurt loses its own. The relocation makes Giessen the newer of the two sites in Zalando's German network, with Erfurt's closure absorbing the bulk of the job losses.
Giessen is gaining Zalando's new site
Zalando is opening a new logistics site at Giessen as part of a wider network realignment that follows its acquisition of About You, a shift the retailer frames as consolidation rather than an AI-driven headcount decision .
The new site sits opposite the closure of Zalando's Erfurt centre in Thuringia, where 2,100 jobs end by the end of September 2026; Giessen gains capacity as Erfurt loses it, illustrating how the retailer is redistributing its German logistics footprint rather than shrinking it outright.
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