Just Eat is a British online food ordering and delivery service acting as an intermediary between independent take-out food outlets and customers. The platform enables customers to search for local take-out restaurants, place orders and pay online.
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June 11, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t enough to stop cross-border dealmaking – specifically in the food delivery services space, where critical mass is of critical importance. Consider the news that European food delivery ...
May 13, 2020Since PYMNTS began publishing the Provider Ranking of delivery aggregators way back in February, everything has changed.
Yes, of course, there’s the COVID-19 pandemic. But from the perspective of PYMNTS Provider ...
April 23, 2020The United Kingdom’s regulator approved Takeaway.com’s purchase of rival Just Eat on Thursday (April 23).
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the agency responsible for protecting competition, said the £6.2 billion ($7.7 ...
April 8, 2020Pretty much all of us are stuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, phones and tablets in hand. Hunger gnaws. The restaurants that remain unshuttered offer delivery or takeout ...
March 25, 2020As food delivery companies are surging in the U.K. in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, a proposed merger between Amazon and Deliveroo is under even more scrutiny, according to ...
January 31, 2020While the two firms still need the go-ahead from a competition authority before they combine operations, Netherlands-based online food ordering company Takeaway.com made it known that its purchase of Just Eat was ...
January 28, 2020Delivery service Uber Eats no longer has exclusive rights to McDonald’s deliveries in the U.K., according to CNN Business. The company now faces competition from a larger company, called Just ...
January 24, 2020After a British competition body said it would probe its purchase of Just Eat, food delivery firm Takeaway.com said the forecasted timetable for its takeover would be longer than expected. ...
January 24, 2020In a setback to Takeaway.com’s purchase of Just Eat, Britain’s competition watchdog has launched a probe into the buyout, delaying the multi-billion dollar deal.
Takeaway.com fought a months-long battle against rival ...
January 15, 2020A new partnership between Greggs and Just Eat will prevent rivals in the delivery field like Uber Eats and Deliveroo from offering the British bakery chain’s sausage rolls across the ...
January 10, 2020Online food ordering firm Takeaway.com has won the battle for the U.K.’s Just Eat with a 6.2 billion pound ($8 billion) share offer that will make it one of the ...
January 3, 2020In its takeover battle for Just Eat Plc, Takeaway.com NV is reportedly coming close to victory. According to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg, investors who have over half of the ...
December 20, 2019Because it said it found a tie-up with Takeaway.com to make one of the leading eCommerce food delivery firms compelling, Just Eat supported the company’s final all-share offer and rejected ...
December 20, 2019In the bidding war for British online food company Just Eat, competitors Prosus and Takeaway.com are both putting up strong offers for their final bids. Prosus, the internet division of ...
December 10, 2019Just Eat has once again turned down an offer from Netherlands-based Prosus, saying the deal still “significantly undervalues” the company, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Tuesday (Dec. 10).
Prosus, an ...
December 9, 2019Naspers-owned Prosus upped its bid to $6.5 billion on Monday (Dec. 9) to acquire London’s food delivery service Just Eat, putting pressure on rival buyer Takeaway, Reuters reported.
Just Eat favors ...
November 25, 2019British online food and delivery company Just Eat is asking its shareholders to hold off on approving an offer from Prosus, saying they should accept a smaller deal from Takeaway.com ...
November 20, 2019Tech company Prosus and Takeaway.com are both bidding to take over the British delivery service Just Eat. On Wednesday (Nov. 20), Prosus criticized its rival, saying that Takeaway.com’s bid holds ...
November 14, 2019Takeaway.com’s CEO said his company isn’t ready to outbid its rival on a merger with the UK’s Just Eat.
Amsterdam’s Takeaway and Just Eat had already agreed to a $6.1 billion ...
November 11, 2019Just Eat has turned down a hostile £4.9 billion ($6.3 billion) cash bid from Prosus, the Amsterdam arm of the South African tech conglomerate Naspers, as reported on Monday (Nov. ...
November 4, 2019In the battle to acquire London’s Just Eat, Amsterdam’s Takeaway.com has changed the structure of its offer as it fights a competing bid from South Africa’s Prosus, Reuters reported on ...
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October 23, 2019London food delivery service Just Eat turned down a $6.2 billion offer from Amsterdam investment firm Prosus, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday (Oct. 22).
This is the third time ...
October 22, 2019With a hostile £4.9bn offer for the United Kingdom’s Just Eat, South African tech conglomerate Naspers has aimed to gate-crash a merger of two of the largest food delivery groups in ...
August 5, 2019In an attempt to compete with rivals like the Amazon-backed Deliveroo and Uber delivery offshoot Uber Eats, Amsterdam’s Takeaway.com and U.K. company Just Eat have merged to create a new company, one ...
July 29, 2019Amsterdam-based Takeaway.com will merge with London’s Just Eat to create one of the biggest companies in the online food delivery sector.
Combined, the companies will lead worldwide food delivery markets, including ...
July 28, 2019Dutch takeout giant Takeaway.com is in talks to buy London’s Just Eat and create a £9 billion ($11.1 billion) online food ordering business that is expected to be more competitive ...
July 26, 2019 Mobile order-ahead is showing no signs of slowing down, with restaurant delivery expected to grow three times faster than dine-in between 2018 and 2023. In fact, a National Restaurant Association ...
July 22, 2019On the heels of Just Eat’s merger of customer and restaurant operation teams, Just Eat is shrinking its workforce to get rid of redundancies.
The takeout app, facing strong competition from ...
June 13, 2018Deliveroo, the U.K. delivery service locked in a cutthroat battle with rival Just Eat, will let restaurants use their riders for orders that are placed through its food app.
Reuters, citing comments ...
December 8, 2017“Accio pizza!”
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July 28, 2017The U.K. food delivery competition just heated up.
Startup takeaway-ordering company Just Eat has shared plans to move up a notch to take on bigger competitors like Deliveroo and UberEats. While ...
May 11, 2017Just Eat Plc’s 200 million-pound ($259 million) acquisition of Hungryhouse has raised concerns it will cause poor service for British restaurants using either delivery service, which has led to an in-depth ...
January 11, 2017The food delivery industry is growing so much it’s getting congested and crowded.
This week, Just Eat, the U.K.’s largest restaurant food delivery service, saw its numbers get curtailed at the ...
December 19, 2016U.K.-based online takeout site Just Eat just ate up two of its competitors in a combined £266.1 million ($336 million) meal.
First, Berlin-based delivery startup Delivery Hero sold its U.K. branches ...
December 16, 2016In the latest case of food startup cannibalism, U.K.-based online takeout site Just Eat just ate up two of its competitors in combined £266.1 million ($336 million) meal. De-lish!
The first: Berlin-based ...
September 6, 2016In Europe, food delivery is a hot market and one that is seeing plenty of activity, as players try to realign business models to compete with the likes of Amazon ...
February 8, 2016German startup accelerator Rocket Internet is slimming down its food delivery business with the sale of four of its companies for about $140 million in cash.
The four companies, which include online takeaway ...