The US owner of Deliveroo has said it is pulling the platform from two countries in Asia, months after completing its takeover of the British delivery firm.<\/p>\n
DoorDash, which bought the London-based business last year, said it was ceasing Deliveroo\u2019s operations in Qatar and Singapore.<\/p>\n
This decision follows a review into the specific conditions within each country and a focus on investing in the places it thinks it can grow, according to the firm.<\/p>\n
Some 85 jobs will be impacted from pulling out of the two countries, and the platforms will be live until March 4, it said.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, one of Deliveroo\u2019s engineering hubs in Bengaluru, India, will be closed, affecting around 100 employees.<\/p>\n
DoorDash said that, as a result of the changes, Deliveroo can further invest in engineering roles in the UK.<\/p>\n
The announcement comes as the business also announced it was pulling its other delivery platform Wolt from Japan and Uzbekistan as part of the overhaul.<\/p>\n
Miki Kuusi, head of DoorDash International and the chief executive of Deliveroo, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve made the difficult decision to wind down operations in Qatar, Singapore, Japan, and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur priority is supporting our teams and partners through an orderly transition as we focus on the geographies where we can offer the best products and build for long-term success.\u201d<\/p>\n
DoorDash acquired Deliveroo in October after agreeing to a takeover worth \u00a32.9 billion.<\/p>\n
At the time, it said it was kicking off a 12-month review of the merged group, with a potential reduction of around 1% to 3% of the combined workforce.<\/p>\n
DoorDash operates in countries including the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and delivers over 2.5 billion orders a year, but believes its acquisition of Deliveroo will help expand its footprint into new locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US owner of Deliveroo has said it is pulling the platform from two countries in Asia, months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,155196,155195,17109,85,46,1823,2252],"class_list":["post-309326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-countries-in-asia","tag-deliveroo","tag-doordash","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-qatar","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}