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Takeaway.com now serves mainly as the corporate gateway for Just Eat Takeaway.com, the Amsterdam-based delivery group owned by Prosus, rather than as a single global food-ordering website.
What is Takeaway.com used for today?
Takeaway.com is best understood as an entry point into the wider Just Eat Takeaway.com business. From there, visitors can reach local ordering platforms, restaurant and retail partner information, courier applications, job listings, company news, and investor-related material.
That can be confusing for anyone who expects Takeaway.com itself to be a single international ordering service. The group operates under different consumer brands depending on the country. Its market pages list Just Eat in countries including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland; Lieferando in Germany and Austria; Thuisbezorgd.nl in the Netherlands; Pyszne.pl in Poland; Bistro.sk in Slovakia; Skip in Canada; 10bis in Israel; and Takeaway.com in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Some corporate pages can lag behind recent operational changes, however, so their country lists should not always be read as a real-time map of active markets.
Just Eat Takeaway.com describes itself as an on-demand delivery platform linking consumers with restaurants, supermarkets, grocers, and other retailers. In an August 2026 company profile, it said the platform worked with 362,000 partners and served millions of users.
How did Takeaway.com become Just Eat Takeaway.com?
The company started in the Netherlands in 2000, when founder Jitse Groen launched Thuisbezorgd.nl. Over the following years, Takeaway.com expanded across continental Europe, both organically and through acquisitions.
The biggest change came in 2020. Takeaway.com completed its acquisition of UK-based Just Eat in an all-share transaction valued at roughly €7.4 billion. The combined business became Just Eat Takeaway.com.
Its international ambitions grew again in 2021 with the acquisition of Grubhub, which gave the company a significant presence in the United States. That expansion did not last.
In January 2025, Just Eat Takeaway.com completed the sale of Grubhub to Wonder at an enterprise value of $650 million. The transaction included $500 million of Grubhub senior notes, while Just Eat Takeaway.com said it expected net proceeds of up to $50 million after costs and adjustments.
This is an important point because older articles may still describe Takeaway.com or Just Eat Takeaway.com as a major US delivery operator. That description is now outdated.
Who owns Takeaway.com now?
Prosus agreed in February 2025 to acquire Just Eat Takeaway.com for €20.30 per share in cash, valuing the transaction at about €4.1 billion.
Prosus said the acquisition would allow it to apply more of its technology, investment capacity, and artificial intelligence expertise to the delivery business. Reuters also noted that the offer represented a substantial premium to the company’s share price before the deal was announced.
By October 2025, Prosus had secured 98.19% of Just Eat Takeaway.com shares. The company was subsequently delisted from Euronext Amsterdam on November 17, 2025.
A Dutch court later ordered the remaining minority shares to be transferred to the Prosus acquisition vehicle. It set €20.30 per share, plus statutory interest, as the fair transfer price.
The takeover was followed by a leadership change. Founder Jitse Groen stepped down as chief executive at the end of 2025, with Roberto Gandolfo taking over on January 1, 2026.
Takeaway.com therefore now sits inside a privately controlled Prosus business rather than an independently listed public company.
How large is the business behind Takeaway.com?
The most useful full-year public figures come from Just Eat Takeaway.com’s 2024 results, before the Prosus takeover changed the company’s ownership structure.
For 2024, the group reported €26.3 billion in gross transaction value, €5.085 billion in revenue, and €460 million in adjusted EBITDA. Free cash flow before changes in working capital improved to €104 million.
Revenue was slightly lower than in 2023, but profitability improved. Adjusted EBITDA increased from €339 million to €460 million, helped by better delivery economics, more efficient marketing, and tighter operating costs.
The company’s final public half-year results covered the first six months of 2025. They showed gross transaction value of €4.6 billion in Europe and €3.6 billion in the UK and Ireland.
Adjusted EBITDA in the UK and Ireland rose 32% year over year to €121 million. In Europe, adjusted EBITDA fell as the company increased spending on logistics and marketing.
Because Just Eat Takeaway.com is now privately owned, the business is unlikely to provide the same level of regular financial disclosure that investors received while it was publicly listed.
Is Takeaway.com still expanding or becoming smaller?
The answer depends on what kind of expansion you mean.
Geographically, Just Eat Takeaway.com has been pulling back from markets where it sees limited prospects for sustainable profitability. It ended operations in Australia in November 2025, closed its Danish business on April 30, 2026, and announced plans to stop delivery operations in Bulgaria from September 15, 2026, subject to statutory requirements.
These changes also explain why market counts can differ across official company pages. An August 2026 corporate profile still said the group operated across 14 countries, while other official pages reflected markets that were being closed or had recently exited.
The broader direction is easier to see than the exact country count. Just Eat Takeaway.com is concentrating more of its resources on markets where it believes it can build stronger long-term positions.
At the same time, the platform is expanding what customers can order. Restaurant meals remain central, but grocery, convenience products, pharmacy items, electronics, flowers, and other retail categories are becoming more important.
That makes the business increasingly look like a broader local-commerce delivery platform rather than a service focused only on takeaway food.
What is changing on Takeaway.com in 2026?
Artificial intelligence is becoming a more visible part of the company’s strategy.
In August 2026, Just Eat Takeaway.com launched an AI Voice Assistant across Europe after earlier introductions in the UK and Germany. According to the company, early UK results showed that customers using voice search found what they wanted about 40% faster than people using its text-only AI assistant.
The company is also testing ways to move ordering beyond its traditional website and app. In May 2026, it introduced a WhatsApp ordering experience in Europe, starting with pilot programs in the Netherlands and Spain.
The system allows customers to browse products and build an order inside WhatsApp before moving into the Just Eat Takeaway.com app to complete secure payment.
Technology investment is also aimed at merchants. In June 2026, Prosus and Just Eat Takeaway.com launched ToqanClaw, an AI platform designed to help smaller businesses create dashboards, applications, and automated workflows without needing to write code.
Taken together, these moves show how the role of Takeaway.com is changing. The group is leaving weaker markets, focusing more heavily on its core countries, broadening beyond restaurant delivery, and investing in AI-based search, ordering, and merchant tools.
For anyone researching Takeaway.com today, the key distinction is simple: it is no longer best viewed as a standalone takeaway-ordering website. It is the corporate front door to a much larger Prosus-owned delivery and local-commerce business operating through several consumer brands.