Just Eat Takeaway

Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V. (formerly Takeaway.com; founded as Thuisbezorgd.nl) is a Dutch multinational online food ordering and delivery company, formed from the merger of London-based Just Eat and Amsterdam-based Takeaway.com in 2020.

Just Eat Takeaway.com is the parent company of food delivery brands including Takeaway.com, Lieferando, Thuisbezorgd.nl, Pyszne.pl, 10bis in Israel, and those acquired from Just Eat, including SkipTheDishes and Menulog. Just Eat Takeaway operate various food ordering and delivery platforms in twenty countries, where customers can order food online from restaurants' menus, and have it delivered by restaurant or company couriers directly to their home or workplace using an app or website. The company also partners with IFood in Brazil and Colombia.

Following clearance by the United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority on 23 April 2020, Takeaway.com merged with UK-based food delivery service Just Eat, with Takeaway.com acquiring all of Just Eat's shares. It is listed on Euronext Amsterdam and was listed on the London Stock Exchange until November 2024.

In February 2025, it was announced Just Eat Takeaway.com would be acquired by Dutch-based investment firm Prosus, which also partly owns rival German food delivery service Delivery Hero.

History

Takeaway.com was created by Jitse Groen in 2000 after he had a difficult time ordering food online from local restaurants. Initially, Groen wanted to deliver all kinds of consumer goods; however, he noticed that food deliveries were subject to the most demand, and decided to make this the company's primary focus.
In 2002, co-founder Ruben Eilander left Takeaway because the business was growing too slowly. According to Groen, in these early years, he was relying on his student loans to keep himself financially afloat. Thanks to broadband internet becoming mainstream around 2003, the business started growing, and Groen left his studies to focus on the company.

The company benefited from an investment of from Prime Ventures—a venture capital and growth equity firm—in 2012. It began accepting Bitcoin in November 2013 and benefited from another investment of in a series B-round led by Macquarie Capital and Prime Ventures in 2014. It also launched a new logo in all of the countries countries where it operated. It then raised from an IPO, valuing the company at , in 2016. In August that year, it stopped doing business in the UK, selling its customer portfolio to rival Just Eat.

In 2017, in Belgium, local provider, Pizza.be, was rebranded ''Takeaway.com''. In 2018, the company increased the commission it charged for using the platform from 12% to 13%. In the same year, Takeaway.com acquired Israeli food delivery company 10bis () for , as well as local Bulgarian startup BGmenu.com, including its Romanian subsidiary Oliviera.ro; and in 2019 it acquired Lieferheld, Pizza.de, and Foodora from Delivery Hero in Germany.

In July 2019, Takeaway.com announced proposals to take over Just Eat. In January 2020, 80.4% of Just Eat shareholders approved Takeaway.com's acquisition deal. Although Just Eat became a subsidiary of Takeaway.com on 3 February 2020, the British Competition and Markets Authority ordered on the following day that no integration should take place and that the brands should be kept separate until their investigation is completed. On 23 April 2020, the Competition and Markets Authority announced that it was unconditionally approving Just Eat's merger with Takeaway.com.

In June 2020, the company announced that it would acquire, in an all-stock transaction, US-based Grubhub—valuing the deal at $7.3 billion.

The company was reported to be in talks with Prosus to sell its 33% stake, inherited from Just Eat, in Brazilian food delivery company iFood, which operated in Brazil and Colombia, in July 2020. The company already had a partnership with iFood in these two countries. It completed the sale of its stake in iFood to Prosus for €1.8 billion in August 2022.

The company became the sponsors of the UEFA men's club and women's competitions on 22 March 2021, after being awarded the first-ever sponsorship contract for the UEFA Euro 2020.

In July 2021, the company announced it would acquire Slovak market leader Bistro.sk; the acquisition was completed in October 2021.

The company withdrew from operations in Norway and Portugal in April 2022, and discontinued its operations in Romania in June 2022.

In April 2022, following investor pressure, the company announced it was considering a full or partial sale of Grubhub. It confirmed the sale of Grubhub to restaurant chain Wonder Group Inc for $650m in November 2024.

In November 2024, the company announced it would be delisting its shares from the London Stock Exchange, making Amsterdam, where it was headquartered, the sole location where its shares could be traded.

The investment firm, Prosus, announced that it would acquire the company for €4.1 billion, in February 2025. Prosus, which also owned 25% of rival German service Delivery Hero, 4% of China's Meituan, and 25% of India's Swiggy, had originally planned to purchase UK-based Just Eat in 2019, to prevent the eventual merger of Just Eat and Takeaway.com.

Operations

The company operates under different brand names in different countries.

See also

* List of websites about food and drink

Notes

References

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Online retailers of the Netherlands
Retail companies established in 2000
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Companies listed on Euronext Amsterdam
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Food and drink companies established in 2000