Amazon has tightened its grip on the UK retail market by taking more than five times as much new warehousing space this year as the next fastest growing rival.
The online retailer has expanded its UK distribution network by four million sq ft in 2017 a space almost as big as the Vatican City according to research from property agency Savills. The next biggest retailer, Lidl, took 754,000 sq ft.
The pace of Amazons expansion is such that it took more space than any other company, including major manufacturers such as Jaguar Land Rover and logistics firm Eddie Stobart, who took around 1.5m sq ft apiece.
