Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V. (LSE: JET, AMS: TKWY), hereinafter the "Company", or together with its group companies "Takeaway.com", one of the world’s largest online food delivery marketplaces, hereby issues an order update in relation to the Takeaway.com business1 for the first quarter of 2020.
Statement of Jitse Groen, CEO of Takeaway.com: “In these uncertain and unprecedented times, our top priority has been the well-being of our staff, partner restaurants and consumers. I am proud that our employees have been able to serve so many people, even while undergoing restrictive measures themselves. Takeaway.com is one of the few, and privileged, companies that has only modestly been affected by the crisis. The most notable effect on our figures has been, what we now believe to be, a temporary impact on our March orders. Despite enormous shifts in user behaviour and restaurant composition, our business continues to be very strong and resilient.”
• With the onset of the coronavirus crisis in Europe in mid-March, order volumes declined, mainly driven by restaurant closures and a significant reduction of lunch and over-hours orders from offices. Takeaway.com also suffered many severe DDOS-attacks in the week starting 16 March, affecting several hundred thousand orders.
• Order volumes however recovered strongly by the end of March, and by now our most important markets, including the Netherlands, Germany and Poland, have recovered. Average order values increased markedly, which are expected to return to normal levels after the crisis. 10bis in Israel, predominantly a B2B-brand, is still lagging behind due to increased work from home, which led to a drop in business orders.
• Our restaurant delivery service Scoober faced the strongest decline. Scoober restaurants generally derive most of their revenues from dine-in orders, not related to Takeaway.com or other delivery companies, rather than from delivery. As a consequence, far more Scoober restaurants than marketplace restaurants have been closed. Marketplace restaurants, which generally derive most, if not all, of their revenues from delivery orders, faced less direct impact from government restrictions. It should be noted that Scoober only represents c.7% of Takeaway.com’s orders in the first quarter of 2020.
• Takeaway.com has a flexible cost base and the ability to draw under the revolving credit facility, which was extended from €60 million to €120 million at the end of January 2020. The Company is well financed and able to adapt to these uncertain circumstances.
• As a result of government measures banning dine-in service, Takeaway.com experienced a material increase in applications from restaurants, both for marketplace and Scoober, attempting to compensate for the loss of pick-up and/or dine-in. As a result, thousands of restaurants have been added to our websites, including well-known chains and local heroes.
• Takeaway.com implemented temporary measures to support local restaurants in several markets, including zero percent commission for pick-up orders and optional deferral of fee collection for restaurants. Takeaway.com also accelerated the roll-out of Scoober to nine new cities to make it possible for now-closed restaurants to start with delivery.
• Takeaway.com took measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus by implementing contactless delivery for all orders and providing cleaning and hygiene equipment for couriers. Most of Takeaway.com’s office employees have been working from home since mid-March.• Takeaway.com has started many local initiatives to support organisations during the pandemic, including a Europe-wide initiative to grant more than €4 million in free meals to emergency hospital staff.• The UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") confirmed the start of its formal initial Phase 1 review of the Just Eat transaction on 19 March 2020. The CMA has 40 working days to conduct this review, which sets the deadline for notice of a Phase 1 decision to 19 May 2020. As a result of the Initial Enforcement Order (“IEO”) imposed by the CMA, the management board of the Company has not been provided with information on Just Eat's trading performance, and such information is therefore not included in this Trading Update.• Jitse Groen, Brent Wissink and Jörg Gerbig will host an analyst and investor conference call to discuss the quarterly trading update and the impact of the coronavirus on the Takeaway.com business at 7:30 am CET on Thursday 9 April 2020. Registration for the conference call is required and can be done here.
About Just Eat Takeaway.com
Just Eat Takeaway.com (AMS: TKWY) is one of the world’s leading global online food delivery companies.
Headquartered in Amsterdam, the Company is focused on connecting consumers and Partners through its platforms. With 731,000 connected Partners, Just Eat Takeaway.com offers consumers a wide variety of choices from restaurants to retail.
Just Eat Takeaway.com has rapidly grown to become a leading online food delivery marketplace with operations in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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