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PedidosYa
PedidosYa is an Uruguayan Multinational corporation, multinational online food ordering and delivery service based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Founded in 2009 and acquired by Delivery Hero in 2014, the company operates in 15 Latin American countries. In 2020, the company launched ''PedidosYa Market'', a series of Dark store, dark stores for online purchases, with local pickup and home delivery, which as of May 2022 had 170 stores in 13 Latin American countries. History Pedidos Ya was founded in 2009 by Ariel Burschtin, Álvaro García and Ruben Sosenke, three students from Universidad ORT Uruguay, who had presented the idea of a web page to easily order ''Chivito (sandwich), chivitos'' as part of a university project in 2008. In 2008 they presented the project to the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII), which granted them a subsidy of US$20,000, and a year later the first online platform prototype with 40 restaurants was launched in Uruguay. In addition, ''Fondo Empre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delivery Hero
Delivery Hero is a German multinational online food-delivery service based in Berlin, Germany. The company operates in 50+ countries internationally in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and partners with 500,000+ restaurants. Delivery Hero has increasingly branched out beyond food delivery, and is a leading player in the emerging category of quick commerce, which delivers small batch orders in under an hour. In the third quarter of 2021, Delivery Hero processed 791 million orders - that equals a year-on-year growth of 52%. While Delivery Hero is headquartered in Germany with offices worldwide, as a " gig economy company" (akin to Meituan, Uber or Airbnb) nearly all of the company's deliveries are carried out by workers using motorcycles, bicycles and cars, dispatched via the company's smartphone apps. In general, and in contrast to recent legal precedents in Canada and Australia, Delivery Hero does not classify these couriers as employees. This policy has led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
