Freshub, Inc. et al v. Amazon.Com Inc. et al

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COMPLAINT ( Filing fee $ 400 receipt number 0542-12267080), filed by Freshub, Inc., Freshub, Ltd.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2, # 3 Exhibit 3, # 4 Exhibit 4, # 5 Exhibit 5, # 6 Exhibit 6, # 7 Exhibit 7, # 8 Exhibit 8, # 9 Exhibit 9, # 10 Exhibit 10, # 11 Exhibit 11, # 12 Exhibit 12, # 13 Exhibit 13, # 14 Exhibit 14, # 15 Exhibit 15, # 16 Exhibit 16, # 17 Exhibit 17, # 18 Exhibit 18, # 19 Exhibit 19, # 20 Exhibit 20, # 21 Exhibit 21, # 22 Exhibit 22, # 23 Exhibit 23, # 24 Exhibit 24, # 25 Exhibit 25, # 26 Exhibit 26, # 27 Exhibit 27, # 28 Exhibit 28, # 29 Exhibit 29, # 30 Exhibit 30, # 31 Exhibit 31, # 32 Exhibit 32, # 33 Exhibit 33, # 34 Exhibit 34, # 35 Exhibit 35, # 36 Exhibit 36, # 37 Exhibit 37, # 38 Exhibit 38, # 39 Exhibit 39, # 40 Civil Cover Sheet)(Palmer, John)

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Amazon plans Austin expansion that will add 800 jobs - News - Austin American-Statesman - Austin, TX

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By Sebastian Herrera
@SebasAHerrera
Posted Mar 28, 2019 at 6:30 AM
Updated Apr 4, 2019 at 10:22 AM

Adding to its already significant Austin presence, retail giant Amazon.com will
add 800 tech-focused jobs at its hub in North Austin, company representatives
told the American-Statesman.
New employees will fill a 145,000-square-foot space Amazon has leased on four
floors at Domain 10, a 15-story tower being built at the Domain, the North
Austin business, shopping and restaurant development. Amazon’s new office will
open next year, with hiring expected to take place over “the next several years,”
the company said.
Seattle-based Amazon already employs more than 5,600 workers in the Austin
area, including more than 1,000 corporate-level staff members, as well as more
than 2,000 at a warehouse in San Marcos and an additional 2,600 through its
ownership of Austin-based Whole Foods Market.

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The expansion will strengthen an Austin hub that is already among Amazon’s
largest locations in the United States and Canada. The company said new hires
here will be focused in the software and hardware engineering, research science
and cloud computing divisions. The company did not provide specific salary
estimates for the new Austin jobs, instead saying that “Amazon offers
competitive pay and comprehensive benefits to its employees, including health
care, 401(k) with 50 percent match and flexible parental leave.”
Some of Amazon’s “very core things are being built in Austin,” Terry Leeper,
Amazon’s site lead in Austin, said in an interview with the Statesman. “We’ve
become quite critical to the company with respect to what we build here. Having
a place outside of Seattle that we can recruit to and develop people and hire from
is critical because we have been very successful here about gathering local talent.”
In a written statement, Gov. Greg Abbott said that with Amazon’s expansion in
Austin, “Texas will continue to chart a path toward greater economic
prosperity.”
Amazon’s Austin’s growth is part of an effort set in motion years ago and not
related to the company’s recent pullout of a planned headquarters site in New
York, Leeper said. Amazon in November selected New York and Northern
Virginia for major headquarters hubs before deciding in February to cancel its
New York project amid political and public backlash.
Amazon said then that the 25,000 jobs it had planned for New York would be
spread out throughout its 17 corporate locations in the U.S. and Canada,
including Austin. Whether that means additional hiring beyond the Domain 10
plan in Austin is not yet clear, but the current Austin expansion is not tied to the
New York withdrawal, Leeper said.
Amazon will not receive any financial incentives from the state or from local
governments to open the new facility, according to the Greater Austin of
Chamber of Commerce. While Amazon did not clarify how much investment
the expansion represents, the company said it has created more than 22,000 fulltime jobs in Texas since 2011 among corporate sites and warehouse locations
and invested more than $7 billion in the state.

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“We applaud Amazon’s decision to bring more jobs to the Austin region,” Austin
chamber spokeswoman Danielle Trevino said in a written statement. “These jobs
are more opportunities for Central Texas families to pay their bills, put food on
their tables and provide for their families. We look forward to continuing our
region’s strong relationship with Amazon.”
The Austin metro area has grown into one of Amazon’s premier locations.
As one of the world’s largest companies, with a market value approaching $900
billion, Amazon’s tentacles reach throughout Central Texas. Besides its presence
at the Domain, at the six Whole Foods stores here and the warehouse in San
Marcos, Austin is home to one of Amazon’s bookstores and has been a site for
new delivery and shopping projects by the company.
In January 2018, Amazon named Austin as one of 20 finalists for its $5 billion
second headquarters project, which the company had announced in September
2017, spurring a more than yearlong public search. Amazon eventually chose to
split the development between New York’s Long Island City and Arlington, Va.,
which offered the company billions in combined incentives. Amazon decided to
kill its plans for New York after backlash over the incentives offered by the city
and state.
Regardless of the second headquarters competition, Leeper said, Amazon always
planned to grow its Austin site. The company opened its first corporate office
here in 2015 and has steadily grown its presence. Its new location will be an
extension of those plans, Leeper said. Amazon signed a lease for Domain 10 late
last year.
Amazon’s new office will be its third at the Domain. The company occupies
171,000 square feet in the Domain 8 building and an additional 76,000 square
feet in Domain 7. Employees there include teams for the Amazon Web Services
and Amazon Business divisions, as well as for company products, video game
design and advertising.
Austin has become Amazon’s “next tier of places where we try things,” Leeper
said. “The excitement around Amazon in Austin and the people that work for
Amazon is at an all-time high.
“We’re not just glad to be here, we have a lot of pride.”
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Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article stated that Amazon employs 3,000
workers at its San Marcos warehouse, according to the Greater Austin Chamber of
Commerce. After publication, Amazon said the figure is closer to 2,000 workers.

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