Prosus ups the stakes in bid for Just Eat
Netherlands-based company raises its offer for online takeaway delivery platform and lowers its acceptance threshold
09 December 2019 - 10:03
As the battle to buy UK online food delivery platform Just Eat intensifies, Naspers subsidiary Prosus may have to fork out even more than its latest sweetened £5.1bn (R98.32bn) offer as it tries to outbid rival Takeaway.com.
Prosus swooped with a cash offer in October, seeking to break up a tie-up between Just Eat and its Dutch rival Takeway.com and highlighting CEO Bob van Dijk’s strategy to build a bigger food delivery business to take on Silicon Valley giant Uber Eats and Amazon-backed Deliveroo. ..
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