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Takeaway.com N.V.
Company typeNaamloze vennootschap
Euronext: TKWY
IndustryOnline food ordering
Founded1999
HeadquartersAmsterdam, Netherlands
Area served
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, Israel, Vietnam[1]
Key people
Jitse Groen (creator, owner)[2]
RevenueOver €100 million[2]
Number of employees
300+
Websitecorporate.takeaway.com

Takeaway.com, officially Takeaway.com N.V., and created originally under its Dutch name Thuisbezorgd.nl, is a Dutch dot-com company specialized in online food ordering and home delivery. Takeaway.com is an intermediary online portal between the customer and the restaurants, where customers can order food online from restaurants’ menus, and have it delivered by the restaurants directly to their home.[3]

History

Jitse Groen, 2015

Jitse Groen created the website after finding out how hard it was to find local restaurant menus online.

  • 2000: launch of the website Thuisbezorgd.nl
  • 2008: the company expands to Belgium (Pizza.be) and Germany (Lieferservice.de)
  • 2010: the business changes its international name from Thuisbezorgd.nl to Takeaway.com
  • 2011: the websites are redesigned, featuring a new logo
  • 2012: Takeaway.com receives an investment of €13 million from Prime Ventures - a venture capital and growth equity firm; Takeaway.com is launched in the United Kingdom under the same name
  • 2013: began accepting Bitcoin in November 2013.[4][5]
  • 2014: Takeaway.com receive another investment of €74 million in a series B-round led by Macquarie Capital and Prime Ventures.[6] They also launch their new logo in all of their countries [7]
  • 2016: Takeaway.com raises €328 million from their IPO, valuing the company at €993 million.[8]
  • 2016: ends business in the UK in August, selling its customer portfolio to rival Just-Eat[9]
  • 2017: Pizza.be rebrands to Takeaway.com in Belgium[10]
  • 2018: Acquires Israeli food delivery company 10bis for €135M.[11]
  • 2018: Acquires local Bulgarian startup BGmenu.com, including its Romanian subsidiary Oliveira.ro.[12]
  • 2019: Acquires Lieferheld, Pizza.de and Foodora in Germany from Delivery Hero.
  • 2019: Announces takeover of JustEat.[13]

2020 Takeaway.com merge with Just Eat in a deal worth €6B Karl made alot of money

In 2012, the organisation was market leader in the Netherlands (market share of 90%) and Belgium (70%).[2] The website handles over 800,000 orders per month for 10,000 restaurants.[14] Takeaway.com charges 12% of commission per order for the restaurant and will increase it to 13% from January 1, 2018.

Local brands

The company operates under different brand names in different countries.[1]

Country Brand/website Former brand/website
Austria lieferando.at lieferservice.at
Belgium takeaway.com/be pizza.be
Bulgaria takeaway.com/bg BGmenu.com
France pizza.fr
Germany lieferando.de pizza.de
foodora.de
lieferservice.de
lieferheld.de
Israel 10bis.co.il
Luxembourg takeaway.com/lu pizza.lu
Netherlands thuisbezorgd.nl
Poland pyszne.pl
Portugal takeaway.com/pt pizza.pt
Romania takeaway.com/ro oliviera.ro
Switzerland takeaway.com/ch lieferservice.ch
United Kingdom takeaway.com
Vietnam vietnammm.com

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Takeaway.com". Takeaway.com. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
  2. ^ a b c George Groen (5 September 2012). "Eerste Belgisch avontuur Thuisbezorgd.nl duurde half jaar (First Belgian adventure Thuisbezorgd.nl lasted half a year)". Het Financieele Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Der Unternehmer Jitse Groen will mehr Potsdamer Restaurants für seine Bestellplattform gewinnen". Märkische Allgemeine (in German). 18 September 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
  4. ^ "Thuisbezorgd accepteert betalingen via Bitcoin (Thuisbezorgd.nl starts accepting payments in Bitcoin)". Nu.nl (in Dutch). 5 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Ten places where you can spend your bitcoins in the UK". Telegraph.co.uk. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Takeaway.com - About us - News archive". takeaway.com. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  7. ^ "Takeaway.com - About us - News archive". takeaway.com. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  8. ^ Lunden, Ingrid. "Food delivery startup Takeaway.com raises $368M in IPO, valuing it at $1.1B". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  9. ^ "Takeaway sells British Just Eat". Silicon Canals.
  10. ^ "Pizza.be wordt Takeaway.com". De Standaard (in Flemish). Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  11. ^ "Takeaway.com buys Israeli food delivery co 10bis for €135m". Globes. 29 July 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  12. ^ Keane, Jonathan (2018-02-23). "Takeaway.com acquires Bulgaria's BGmenu for €10.5 million". Tech.eu. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  13. ^ Kollewe, Julia (2019-07-29). "Just Eat agrees £9bn merger with Takeaway.com". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  14. ^ "Who we are". Takeaway.com. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
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