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Uber raises stake in Delivery Hero in $318 million deal

Cnbc · · 331 words · By Arjun Kharpal
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“Uber on Friday agreed to purchase an additional 4.5% of shares of German food delivery firm Delivery Hero from the company's biggest shareholder Prosus.”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Uber agreed to purchase a 4.5% stake in Delivery Hero from Prosus.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Delivery Hero SE is a German multinational online food ordering and food delivery company based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 2011, the company operates in 60+ countries internationally in Europe, As…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_Hero
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — iFood is a Brazilian online food ordering and food delivery platform, currently operating in Brazil and previously in Colombia. The company holds over 80% market share of the food delivery sector in B…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFood
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jitse Groen (born 2 June 1978) is a Dutch businessman and the founder of Just Eat Takeaway.com (formerly Takeaway.com), a global food delivery platform. He is the outgoing chief executive officer of t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitse_Groen
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“Total gross proceeds to Prosus are approximately 270 million euros ($318 million), the company said.”
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Multiple sources explicitly state the gross proceeds to Prosus were 270 million euros (approximately $318 million).
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web search NEUTRAL — Uber Buys $318 Million Delivery Hero Stake from Prosus as Part of Just Eat Remedy.Prosus sells its 4.5% stake in Delivery Hero to Uber for €270m.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — UBER INCREASES DELIVERY HERO STAKE Uber has agreed to purchase an additional 4.5% of shares in German food delivery firm Delivery Hero from its largest shareholder, Prosus. The transaction is valued a…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kenyanwallstreet_prosus-the-m…
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web search NEUTRAL — Uber Raises Delivery Hero Stake in €270 Million Prosus Deal.Prosus is selling the shares at €20 apiece, a premium of about 22% of the one-month volume-weighted average price of Delivery Hero shares as…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-17/uber-rais…
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“Uber will pay 20 euros a share”
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Multiple independent sources confirm the purchase price was 20 euros per share.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Delivery Hero SE is a German multinational online food ordering and food delivery company based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 2011, the company operates in 60+ countries internationally in Europe, As…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_Hero
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport. It is headquartered in San Fran…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Uber Eats is an online food ordering and delivery platform launched by the ride-hailing company Uber in August 2014. It is one of the largest global food delivery services, competing with companies su…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_Eats
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“it is a 22% premium to the 1-month average share price, Prosus said.”
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Multiple sources confirm the price represented a 22% premium over the one-month average share price.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Delivery Hero SE is a German multinational online food ordering and food delivery company based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 2011, the company operates in 60+ countries internationally in Europe, As…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_Hero
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport. It is headquartered in San Fran…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Uber Eats is an online food ordering and delivery platform launched by the ride-hailing company Uber in August 2014. It is one of the largest global food delivery services, competing with companies su…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_Eats
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“Prosus last year offered a deal to buy European food delivery giant Just Eat Takeaway.com for 4.1 billion euros.”
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Confirmed by Wikipedia and multiple news reports that Prosus bid to acquire Just Eat Takeaway for 4.1 billion euros in February 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Just Eat is an online food order and delivery platform. It was founded in 2001 in Kolding, Denmark, as a food delivery company, and later headquartered in London, United Kingdom, from 2006 (as Just E…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Eat
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V. (formerly Takeaway.com; founded as Thuisbezorgd.nl) is a Dutch multinational online food ordering and delivery company. It is the parent company of food delivery brands incl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Eat_Takeaway.com
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Prosus N.V. is a Dutch investment group that invests and operates across sectors and markets with long-term growth potential. It is among the largest technology investors in the world. Prosus has inve…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosus
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“the European Commission... said it would approve the deal if Prosus significantly reduced its shareholding in Delivery Hero.”
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Multiple sources confirm the European Commission conditioned the approval of the Just Eat Takeaway acquisition on Prosus reducing its stake in Delivery Hero.
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web search NEUTRAL — Prosus is pleased to announce that the European Commission has cleared its acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway.com (‘JET’). This was the final regulatory approval needed to close the offer.
https://www.prosus.com/news-insights/group-updates/2025/pros…
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web search NEUTRAL — Image: Just Eat Takeaway. Prosus will reduce its shareholding in Delivery Hero from nearly 28pc to a ‘single digit percentage’, it said.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/prosus-just-eat-tak…
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web search NEUTRAL — Prosus cuts its Delivery Hero stake to meet EU merger conditions, selling shares to Uber as part of regulatory commitments tied to its Just Eat deal.The European Commission said it would only approve …
https://insightssuccessmagazine.com/uber-buys-more-of-delive…
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“Prosus's now owns around 21% of Delivery Hero versus approximately 27% when the Just Eat Takeaway.com deal was announced last year”
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While the general trend of reducing the stake is corroborated, the specific percentages (27% to 21%) are not explicitly confirmed across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence, though one source mentions a decrease from 26.3% to 21.8%.
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web search NEUTRAL — The food delivery business Just Eat Takeaway.com has been snapped up by an investor in its German rival Delivery Hero for €4.1bn (£3.4bn), two months after it left the London Stock Exchange.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/24/just-eat-ta…
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web search NEUTRAL — In April, Prosus sold a 4.5% Delivery Hero stake to Uber Technologies for 270 million euros, and the latest transaction prices shares at a similar level to that deal.
https://finwire.io/news/stock-markets-news/delivery-hero-sto…
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web search NEUTRAL — Koos Bekker's Prosus offloads another 5% of Delivery Hero to Aspex for €335 million under EU pressure.
https://www.billionaires.africa/2026/05/13/koos-bekkers-pros…
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“Uber first took a stake in Delivery Hero when it purchased $300 million of newly-issued shares in 2024.”
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Multiple sources confirm Uber first took a stake in Delivery Hero in 2024 by purchasing $300 million of newly-issued shares.
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web search NEUTRAL — While the acquisition is off, Uber and Delivery Hero have a separate share purchase agreement under which Uber agreed to buy $300 million worth of newly issued shares of the German company. This is a …
https://www.streetbrief.co/article/uber-300m-stake-delivery-…
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web search NEUTRAL — It will purchase $300 million in newly issued ordinary shares of the Germany-based business, which operates food delivery services around the globe.Taiwan’s online food delivery market is projected to…
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/uber-to-acquire-foodpandas…
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web search NEUTRAL — Uber first invested in Delivery Hero in 2024, purchasing $300 million of newly issued shares. The impact of the deal on Uber’s India operations remains unclear.
https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/uber-boosts…
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“The Financial Times reported this week that the Commission is considering relaxing rules around large mergers by giving more weight to "innovation, investment and resilience of the internal market", when considering deals.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the Financial Times report regarding the Commission relaxing merger rules.
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“Europe's competition commissioner Teresa Ribera told the FT in an interview that the bloc wants to encourage "pro-competitive mergers"”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding statements by Teresa Ribera to the FT about pro-competitive mergers.
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“Fabricio Bloisi, CEO of Prosus, has previously criticised Europe's approach to mergers and acquisitions.”
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“In an interview with CNBC in January, Bloisi said big mergers are required to compete globally but Europe's approach had been to prevent consolidation.”
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