Just Eat sells £1.5bn stake in Brazilian food delivery giant August 19, 2022 Delivery giant Just Eat Takeaway has sold its stake in Brazilian counterpart iFood for €1.8bn (£1.5bn) to local internet company Movile. The 33 per cent stake in iFood, which has dominated the market share in Brazil, will bolster Movile’s food ordering and delivery segment, although it also operates across ticketing and logistics. The deal includes [...]
Just Eat’s Grubhub sale goes sour as tech shares continue to slip May 29, 2022 Just Eat's sale of Grubhub may be scuppered as brutal market movements wipe £5bn off its valuation and bosses prepare for a major writedown.
Just Eat offers restaurants bikes, loans and cashback as they falter amid historic inflation July 14, 2022 Just Eat has unveiled a £1m support package with financial support for its independent restaurant partners as they struggle amid inflationary pressures. Small, independent firms in the UK will be able to access the support package, which includes marketing and financial support – that does not need to be re-paid. Businesses have been struggling in [...]
Domino’s pins hopes on World Cup boost and Just Eat tie-up after VAT hit eats away sales November 10, 2022 Domino’s Pizza said this morning the company saw sales fall after a VAT hit and as it came up against last year’s boost from the Euro football tournament, but is eyeing a strong end to 2022 amid the upcoming World Cup. The UK and Ireland takeaway pizza giant saw like-for-like system sales, excluding so-called split [...]
Gaucho and M boss: Eat out with a clear conscience – or just eat at home April 21, 2022 THE owner of working lunch institutions Gaucho and M has said he’d rather eat at home if he can’t eat out with a clear conscience.Martin Williams, the restaurateur behind Rare Restaurants, told City A.M. yesterday that he would only be serving carbon-neutral beef from now on as consumers demand more from where they’re eating. “Our [...]
Just Eat slashes profit guidance for year and mulls sale of Grubhub April 20, 2022 Just Eat has said it has lowered its profit guidance for the year and is mulling the sale of its US arm Grubhub. The delivery service said that “management is currently, together with its advisers, actively exploring the introduction of a strategic partner into and/or the partial or full sale of Grubhub.” “There can be [...]
Activist Cat Rock urges Just Eat Takeaway shareholders to drive out board April 25, 2022 Activist investor Cat Rock Capital has written to Just Eat Takeaway’s shareholders and outlined its concerns in a failure of leadership. Shareholders have been urged to vote against the chief financial officer and legacy supervisory board at the delivery firm’s next AGM. Potential in the company was going to waste due to “poor capital allocation, [...]
Just Eat teams up with McDonald’s to drive home delivery efficiencies March 22, 2022 European takeaway giant Just Eat Takeaway.com has entered a "long-term global strategic partnership" with McDonald's as the delivery firm tries to remain profitable in a post-pandemic world.
Grubhub founder toyed with grabbing firm back following £5.8bn Just Eat sale June 5, 2022 The businessman behind Grubhub attempted to buy back the company he sold to Just Eat Takeaway for $7.3bn (£5.8bn) last year after the firm struggled to gain momentum in the States.
Just Eat revenue jumps a third as it mulls pulling out of Portugal and Norway March 2, 2022 Just Eat Takeaway.com enjoyed a revenue jump of more than a third in 2021, dwarfing its pandemic figure by some €1.3bn (£1bn). The Amsterdam-based delivery giant pulled in €5.3bn (£4.4bn) in the 12 months, up from €4bn (£3.3bn) in 2020 when it reaped the rewards of homebound consumers itching to eat out under lockdown restrictions. [...]