The Great Food Delivery Shake-Up: Who Stands to Profit?
Let’s be honest, the last few years in food delivery have felt like a particularly chaotic party. Every week, it seemed, a new company with a brightly coloured logo and a venture capital war chest would appear, promising to bring you a lukewarm burger faster than the last one. It was a frantic, expensive land grab. But now, the music has stopped, the lights have come on, and someone has to do the washing up.
The big clean-up operation, it seems, is consolidation. When a behemoth like Prosus decides to swallow Just Eat Takeaway, it’s not just another headline for the business pages. To me, it’s a signal flare, announcing that the industry is finally growing up. The era of burning cash to win customers is over. Now, the game is about something far less glamorous but infinitely more important, efficiency.