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On Tuesday, Doordash announced two deals worth billions of dollars and said that it has agreed to acquire Deliveroo, the British Food Delivery Company and Seven Rooms, a platform used by hotels and restaurants to manage reservations and marketing.
The acquisitions would enable Doordash, the dominant food delivery app in the United States, to expand overseas and adding reservation management technology that can be used by global companies.
Doordash said the agreement to buy Deliveroo, a British food delivery service, in an approximately $ 3.9 billion agreement Would it give a larger footprint in Europe and a presence in the middle, with millions of users in more than 40 countries.
It said it had agreed to acquire seven rooms, a software company located in New York City, for around $ 1.2 billion. The All-cash transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2025, said it.
“We believe that both Zevenkamers and Deliveryo will expand our ability to build world -class services that potentially increase ours to grow local trade and to support our financial goals,” the company said in a statement.
Doordash’s agreement values Leveroo, which is located in London, around 2.9 billion British pounds, or around $ 3.9 billion, according to one submit With the London Stock Exchange.
Doordash has made the announcements such as it Released financial results For the first quarter of 2025 it showed a continuous growth of the volume and dollar amounts of shopping and restaurant orders by its users.
Deliveroo serves nine countries, including France, Italy, Qatar, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. It said in submitting that the acquisition would enable companies to invest in product and technology, and to strengthen the position of Deliveroo in the areas that had to strengthen it.
Deliveroo has had to deal with since the launch in 2013 drop No less than 30 percent in the first minutes of trade after they went public in 2021.
Doordash, located in San Francisco, Bought Wolt, a Finnish food delivery company that was around $ 8.1 billion active in 23 countries, mainly in Europe, in 2022.
Doordash said in the submission that the conditions of the Deliveroo acquisition, which is subject to a vote from the shareholder and the approval of the regulations, were definitively and would not be increased unless a third party stepped in with a rival bid. It said that the transaction would close in the fourth quarter of this year.
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