Just Eat delivery order growth in UK up 733 per cent on the same period last year July 15, 2021 Just Eat Takeaway saw orders rise across the globe in the last quarter as recent investments began to take off. Half year orders in 2021 are up 61 per cent, whilst newly-acquired subsidiary Grubhub saw 51 per cent growth. Delivery order growth in the UK for the same period grew a staggering 733 per cent. [...]
I’m not leaving this sofa: Takeaway orders soar during England goal-feast July 6, 2021 Football fans made over one million orders on JustEat over the course of Saturday evening as England waltzed past Ukraine in Rome. The match kicking off in the primetime slot of 8pm on a balmy Saturday evening encouraged 2,500 orders being placed per minute. The most popular order was burgers, followed by pizza. While the [...]
Just Eat processes 200 million orders in three months April 13, 2021 Some 200 million orders were placed with Just Eat in the first quarter of 2021, marking a 79 per cent increase from the same period last year. Those in the UK placed the most orders through the takeaway giant, racking up nearly 64 million of those 200 million orders. The company, which was formed after [...]
FTSE 100 jumps on post-lockdown hopes but Wall Street flat April 6, 2021 London’s FTSE 100 climbed by 1.4 per cent today as prospects of a planned re-emergence from lockdown next week boosted shares. The capital’s premier index currently stands at 6,840, its highest levels since 11 January. Across the Atlantic, however, the mood was more subdued, with Wall Street’s main markets flat at the open this afternoon. [...]
Week in Sportbiz: Is crypto the next big player in sports sponsorship? Plus Extreme E’s Suez near miss and Amazon’s Six Nations interest March 25, 2021 Where US sports lead, others tend to follow, so it was with interest that industry insiders noted developments in Florida this week. Miami Heat’s home is set to be rebranded the FTX Arena after the NBA side struck a naming rights agreement with the cryptocurrency exchange. FTX will pay $135m for the 19-year deal, the [...]
Just Eat Takeaway forecasts order growth after bumper year March 10, 2021 Just Eat Takeaway today said it expected further growth in orders in 2021 after the pandemic helped drive a sharp rise in revenue for the year. The food delivery group hailed an “exceptional” 2020 after posting revenue of €2.4bn (£2bn), up 54 per cent from €1.6bn in the previous 12 months. The company said it [...]
Just Eat splurges £5m on Snoop Dogg as Covid delivers results January 13, 2021 Orders to Just Eat grew by 58 per cent in Q4 2020, marking the third consecutive quarter of order growth acceleration. Delivery orders in the UK grew by a whopping 387% in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019, as the UK again entered a national lockdown and coronavirus restrictions [...]
Winners and losers: Stocks soaring AND plummeting as Pfizer reports Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough November 9, 2020 US pharma giant Pfizer reporting today that early studies of its Covid-19 vaccine are 90 per cent effective has sent markets into a frenzy, with travel and hospitality stocks shooting up while food delivery services and video conferencing software providers plummeted. Jet engine maker Rolls-Royce saw the biggest change on the FTSE 100, surging 43 [...]
Just Eat Takeaway’s order growth surges as delivery demand continues to soar October 14, 2020 Just Eat Takeaway (JET) said the surge in online food orders caused by the coronavirus pandemic continued into the third quarter, with orders jumping 46 per cent compared to a year earlier. Order growth accelerated from the jump of 32 per cent the European food delivery giant recorded in the first half of 2020. In [...]
Just Eat Takeaway shareholders back Grubhub deal but reject US chief’s pay October 7, 2020 Shareholders of online food delivery giant Just Eat Takeaway have approved its proposed $7.3bn (£5.6bn) acquisition of US rival Grubhub, but rejected a pay package for the company’s US chief executive. The group agreed to buy Grubhub in June in an all-share deal that would make the combined group the biggest food delivery company outside [...]