Delivery News – Page 14
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NewsJust Eat CEO Jitse Groen: ‘We’ll hire thousands of people’
Just Eat is set to invest “tens of millions of pounds” in the UK and hire “thousands of people,” CEO Jitse Groen has said.
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NewsJust Eat Takeaway.com reports 'significant' top-line growth
Just Eat Takeaway.com has reported a strong first half in 2020, seeing revenue growth of 44% in the first six months.
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NewsCMA clears Amazon/Deliveroo deal
The Competition and Markets Authority has cleared Amazon’s 16% investment in Deliveroo.
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NewsDeliveroo launches table service element to its app
Deliveroo has added a table service element to its app so customers in restaurants in pubs and bars can order their food via the Deliveroo app, reducing contact between staff and customers. Over 2,000 restaurants are already using it, and there is zero commission on any orders placed. Deliveroo also said it was seeing a “steady growth” of pubs and bars on its platform, including chains like Mitchells and Butlers, Greene King and Brewdog.
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NewsDeliveroo appoints Miller as permanent CFO
Deliveroo has appointed Adam Miller as its new chief financial officer.
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NewsCMA’s decision on Amazon/Deliveroo deal ‘suffers from a critical flaw in logic’
The Competition and Markets Authority’s revised provisional findings that the Amazon/Deliveroo deal will not result in a substantial lessening of competition “suffer from a critical flaw in logic,” Domino’s has said.
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NewsDeliveroo and Majestic experience record growth during lockdown
Deliveroo and Majestic have boosted their tie-up to 137 stores, making the high street wine merchant Deliveroo’s largest wine business.
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NewsDeliveroo CEO Will Shu: ‘Coronavirus has marked a new era of delivery’
The coronavirus crisis has marked a new era of delivery, accelerating consumer behaviour when it comes to delivery apps by “about one to three years,” Deliveroo CEO Will Shu has said.
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NewsAmazon investment in Deliveroo 'should not have a negative impact on customers'
Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo should be provisionally cleared, because it is not expected to damage competition in either restaurant delivery or online convenience grocery delivery, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found.
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NewsDeliveroo and restaurant CEOs warn of grave damage ahead
Deliveroo has teamed up with a host of restaurant CEOs including Itsu Founder and CEO Julian Metcalfe, Pret CEO Pano Christou, Wagamama CEO Emma Woods, and Neil Manhas, GM of Pizza Hut, to urge the government to provide an increased level of support for the industry. It has sent a letter to the PM, signed by 90 CEOs representing over 1,000 restaurants, to call for action over issues including cutting VAT on restaurant food and extending the JRS for restaurants while social distancing measures remain in place.
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NewsJust Eat Takeaway.com snaps up Grubhub for £5.75bn
Just Eat Takeaway.com has further consolidated its position in the global delivery market by buying US company Grubhub for $7.3bn (£5.75bn).
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NewsJust Eat launches legal and food safety advice service
Just Eat has partnered with legal services specialist Markel Law and food safety experts NSF to provide free online advice to its restaurant partners.
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NewsDeliveroo releases restaurant recovery guidance
Deliveroo has brought together legal, property and restaurant industry specialists in a new initiative to support restaurants in the recovery period.
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NewsDeliveroo launches SME support package
Deliveroo has launched a financial support package to help SME restaurants facing challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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NewsJust Eat Takeaway.com raises doubts over Deliveroo CMA evidence
Just Eat Takeaway.com has urged the Competitions and Market Authority to reconsider its provisional approval of the Amazon and Deliveroo deal as it raises “doubts over the credibility of the exiting firm scenario put forward by Deliveroo.”
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NewsAmazon/Deliveroo platform will ‘substantially decimate margins’
Deliveroo have been a major part of the destruction of the restaurant industry and demise of the high street, All Our Bars CEO Paul Wigham has said.
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NewsNew Covent Garden Market finds B2C route via Uber Eats
Uber Eats has become the latest delivery platform to diversify into grocery, with a partnership with New Covent Garden Market.
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NewsJane O’Riordan: Delivery is a learning opportunity, not an economic endeavour
The growing number of operators choosing to re-launch or trial delivery in the past few weeks have not done so to make money, but to understand how they might operate in a post-lockdown ‘new normal,’ Jane O’Riodan, chairman of Red Engine, Turtle Bay and Caravan has said.
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NewsSeven Dials launches online initiative and delivery service
Seven Dials landlord, Shaftesbury, has launched an online initiative to keep consumers connected to the site through the lockdown period.
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NewsDeliveroo to make 367 redundancies, furloughs 50
Deliveroo is set to make 367 employees redundant as it struggles with demand during the coronavirus crisis.