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Just-Eat doing great in the Alps
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see the Eat.ch team in Zurich. It’s a great team with Reto, Lukas and Alexander at the core. Switzerland is not a huge market, and it was not even one of our strategically prioritized markets, but when we met the Eat.ch team we concluded success was not [...]
Just-Eat cars forever and ever
One day robots will be doing the job, but for now cars with humans will be just fine.
Heja Norge
I love Norway, it is a beautiful country with a lot of positive and “hyggelige” people. This week I staid there for a couple of days to see the new office of our Norwegian online takeaway service and mingle with the Norwegian colleagues. As always it was a nice experience. After some serious start-up difficulties [...]
Finally: Just-Eat arrives in Italy, the land of the Pizza
Just-Eat offers all kinds of cuisines via the more than 17,000 restaurant partners we have in our network, but all in all the biggest menu of course is Pizza! The cuisine mix varies quite a lot from country to country due to underlying differences in food culture, but we can not escape the fact that [...]
Just-Eat World Party 2011 – Yehaa
This week was busy for me with exec meeting, board meeting, Group Management meeting, World Meeting, but the big prize was the final event: our annual World Party! Almost 300 full time colleagues flew in from all over the World to have a couple of days of socializing and party-party. No need to write up [...]
An award from back home
The internet industry has over the last 10 years been littered with awards for this and that. When we don’t win awards we think they are just silly, when we win we think it is absolutely deserved -;)
Yesterday Just-Eat won the Danish e-commerce award in the category “cross-border”, i.e. the internet company with Danish roots [...]
Viva Espana
I have just been in Spain to visit the guys in Madrid and Barcelona, and there is only one thing to say: Viva Espana. Jerome & Co. has really shown how to execute the online takeaway ordering model on the Iberian Peninsula. When we a while ago were planning the Spanish launch, we were a [...]
Just learn Just-Eat
At Just-Eat we have up until recently followed the traditional HR development policy of start-ups, i.e. throw the new recruits out in the ocean and see if they could swim. If they staid afloat, great, they would be ready for the next storm coming in a few weeks. If they drowned, that was bad for [...]
Groupon vs. Just-Eat
Recently many have asked me about the relationship and difference between online takeaway ordering via Just-Eat and group buying via Groupon. That is natural given the phenomenal growth of the group buying concept, the fact that they are a local concept just like ours and because some of Groupon’s many vouchers are related to the [...]
Just-Eat.ca goes West via Yummy acquisition
Nearly two years ago we launched our Canadian service. Since then the Canadian team has build the clear Canadian leader in terms of restaurants and order numbers even though we have so far only focused on Toronto and the wider province of Ontario. We of course want to have nation wide coverage, so getting into [...]