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EU Launches Investigation Into Potential Online Food Delivery Cartel

Ivy Irungu
Last updated: July 23, 2024 11:10 am
Ivy Irungu
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The European Union has initiated an investigation to determine if online food delivery companies Delivery Hero and Glovo have engaged in anti-competitive practices. This probe follows surprise raids conducted at the two firms in June 2022 and November 2023.

Delivery Hero, headquartered in Germany, held a minority stake in the Spanish company Glovo from July 2018 and later acquired full ownership, making Glovo a subsidiary of the German company in July 2022.

The European Commission is concerned that before the takeover, the two companies “may have allocated geographic markets and shared commercially sensitive information (e.g., on commercial strategies, prices, capacity, costs, product characteristics)”, it said.

Delivery Hero’s then minority share could have “facilitated” these practices.
The commission said the probe was part of the powerful EU competition regulator’s “efforts to ensure that online food delivery and the groceries sector deliver choice and reasonable prices to consumers”.

The EU is also suspicious the firms agreed not to poach each other’s workers, and said this probe was the first on “no-poach agreements formally initiated by the Commission”.

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“This investigation is also part of the Commission’s efforts to ensure a fair labour market where employers do not collude to limit the number and quality of opportunities for workers but compete for talents,” it added.

The opening of a probe does not prejudge its outcome and there is no deadline for the investigation to be completed. The companies risk fines if found at fault.

“If confirmed, such conduct may amount to a breach of EU competition rules, with potential negative effects on prices and choice for consumers and on opportunities for workers,” said the EU’s competition chief, Margrethe Vestager.

 

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