Takeaway.com
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| Industry | Online food ordering |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Utrecht, Netherlands |
Area served | Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, Poland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Vietnam[1] |
Key people | Jitse Groen (creator, owner)[2] |
| Products | Pizza, Indian, Chinese, Sushi, etc. |
| Revenue | Over €100 million[2] |
Number of employees | 300+ |
| Website | Takeaway.com |
Takeaway.com, officially Takeaway.com BV, and created originally under its Dutch name Thuisbezorgd.nl, is a Dutch dot-com company specialised 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 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]
The organisation is 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.[8] Takeaway.com charges, according to Die Welt, 8% of the order for its services.[9]
Local brands
The company operates under different websites/brand names in the countries where it operates:[1]
| Country | Brand/Website |
|---|---|
| Austria | Lieferservice.at |
| Belgium | Pizza.be |
| France | Pizza.fr |
| Germany | Lieferando.de, Lieferservice.de |
| Luxembourg | Pizza.lu |
| Netherlands | Thuisbezorgd.nl |
| Poland | Pyszne.pl |
| Switzerland | Lieferservice.ch |
| United Kingdom | Takeaway.com |
| Vietnam | Vietnammm.com |
See also
References
- 1 2 "Takeaway.com". Takeaway.com. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- 1 2 3 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.
- ↑ "Der Unternehmer Jitse Groen will mehr Potsdamer Restaurants für seine Bestellplattform gewinnen". Märkische Allgemeine (in German). 18 September 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- ↑ "Thuisbezorgd accepteert betalingen via Bitcoin (Thuisbezorgd.nl starts accepting payments in Bitcoin)". Nu.nl (in Dutch). 5 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ↑ "Ten places where you can spend your bitcoins in the UK". Telegraph.co.uk. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ "Takeaway.com - About us - News archive". takeaway.com. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ "Takeaway.com - About us - News archive". takeaway.com. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ "Who we are". Takeaway.com. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- ↑ Stephan Maaß (5 September 2012). "Pizza per Mausklick". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2012.
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