Deal-hungry Takeaway gobbles up Just Eat in £8.2bn takeover
29 July 2019 - 18:18
London/Amsterdam — Amsterdam-based Takeaway.com has agreed to buy Just Eat in an £8.2bn deal to create one of the world’s largest online food delivery firms, as rivals race to rule the $100bn market.
Just Eat, founded in Denmark in 2000, competes with Amazon-backed Deliveroo and Uber Eats, which have taken a bite out of the fast-growing sector by offering their own delivery services to restaurants...
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