Spread over 100,000 sq ft and three floors, the new talabat office in the heart of the emirate, the new facility will house over 2,000 employees
food delivery service
Careem
Careem delivers over half a million burgers in 2022
505,856 burgers were delivered for Careem Express clients including Mcdonald’s, Burger King, Hardees and Kitopi
food delivery app
Zomato co-founder Mohit Gupta resigns
Zomato co-founder and food delivery pioneer Mohit Gupta has resigned from the firm
dubai restaurants
Zomato UAE offers severance packages to delivery personnel, executives
The shift will reportedly cost Zomato UAE staff their jobs, however, Talabat will help “transition” employees through a severance package
dubai restaurants
Zomato UAE food delivery scrapped: Staff to lose jobs, users sent to Talabat
Zomato users will redirected to the Talabat mobile application to order food, starting November 24
cloud kitchen
Deliveroo launches fifth F&B platform featuring 10 super kitchens in Dubai
The food delivery company was one of the first players to open a cloud kitchen concept which caters to multiple restaurants
Bahrain
Careem and Hala cab drivers, delivery riders gain $352,280 as companies match customer tips
Careem and Hala then matched the amounts tipped, putting both 100 percent of each customer tip and another 100 percent match in each captain’s weekly pay throughout the holy month of Ramadan
Abu Dhabi
talabat UAE reports more than 60% increase in orders, over 2 million app downloads in 2021
In terms of non-food orders in 2021, the business results were driven by a growth of more than 100%, with talabat Mart (tMart) – talabat’s own q-commerce and dark store concept – witnessing a growth of more than 70% in orders
food delivery business
SoftBank-backed Swiggy raises $700m to grow grocery unit
Swiggy is among a slew of Indian start-ups disrupting traditional industries as more consumers venture online
acquisitions
Delivery Hero fails in another buy as Saudi-based The Chefz mulls options
Negotiations with Delivery Hero started at the beginning of the year
Food aggregators
Talabat to double number of dark stores in UAE
Currently the aggregator has 20 dark stores in operation across six cities in five emirates, but by the end of 2021, the food aggregator Talabat will have opened stores in Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah
delivery app
Uber Eats trials new Dubai pricing structure that could hike delivery fees 140%
Uber Eats said delivery will be ‘more affordable’, with a reduced fee for ‘nearby’ restaurants
Adeeb Warsi
Dubai’s Careem expands delivery services to Makkah
The delivery app, a subsidiary of ride-hailing app Careem, is already operational in Jeddah and Riyadh.
Amazon
Amazon invests in British food courier Deliveroo
Other participants include existing Deliveroo investors T Rowe Price, Fidelity Management and Research Company, and Greenoaks
Deliveroo
Nando’s UAE sees major growth in food delivery business
An increase in the standard of food delivery services has boosted the Dubai food and beverage industry with major providers reporting a boost of year-on-year sales
Careem
Careem’s food delivery service expands to Riyadh
Careem Now to offer delivery service from over 100 restaurants and outlets
Dammam
Uber Eats launches in Dammam as Saudi expansion continues
Launching in its third city in the kingdom after Riyadh and Jeddah, Uber Eats said this is the next step in its expansion across the region