Takeaway.com, the parent company of Thuisbezorgd.nl working on an IPO. It reports the financial news agency Bloomberg, based on anonymous sources. The company is owned by Prime Ventures, Macquarie Capital and the founders of the German company Lieferando that it swallowed in 2014. Sake Bosch, founder and managing partner of Prime Venture, hinted Thursday in the European Fintech Awards margin even in an IPO.
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the group, which consumers purchase allows online food at restaurants neighborhood would be valued at an amount of $ 1.1 billion. Judging by the turnover is quite hefty. According to the latest published annual figures, the turnover in 2014 € 46.3 million. In the turnover of the group, which currently operates in 10 countries, would annually grow by over 50%. In 2014 a loss of € 7.8 million were incurred.
Weed
company founder Jitse Green had already often know an IPO to aspire over time in the past. Green founded the group in late 2005. At this time, it is with 1 million orders per month leader in the Netherlands. By Takeaway.com employs more than 500 employees. The Dutch company has to compete with a small number of international competitors that all exceed Takeaway.com.
In an interview with this newspaper last year said Green who does not fear competition because its own words is growing faster than all its competitors. “It is by restaurant owners have complained about the rates of ordering sites, but once you have a good position in this market, then step ordering customers hardly over,” said Green then. “It’s like weeds, you get the little road. I do not know why that is. Perhaps fearing the restaurants that another site is not working properly.
In the same interview the founder expressed the expectation until 2017 profit to make. “Actually, we are constantly in need of money,” says founder Green, who make only expected profit in two years. “We can now also make a profit, but we do not grow as quickly.”
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