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Delivery platform Foodpanda in Singapore is to start delivering health and beauty products from Guardian stores. Guardian is the first major health-and-beauty retailer to be listed on Foodpanda’s Shops, offering more than 280 products and on-demand delivery…
Harley-Davidson India has introduced home delivery of motorcycles during the months of April and May, along with extended service warranties and a completely online version of what the brand calls, the Harley-Davidson Passport To Freedom, the experience of…
Kurly, a South Korea-based grocery-delivery startup, has netted Series E funding totaling KRW200 billion (US$160 million). The funding round for the five-year-old company was led by DST Global, with additional participation from several existing backers –…
FamilyMart Taiwan is partnering with the food-delivery platform Foodpanda to launch a delivery service. Starting Wednesday next week, the firm plans to offer delivery services from its 1000 outlets nationwide by June, with initial services commencing out of…
Online grocery-delivery services in Malaysia are facing overwhelming demand, with some firms forced to suspend or limit delivery operations. A 600-per-cent spike in orders recorded last month was fuelled by panic buying while stay-at-home orders remain in…
Recently, ride-hailing drivers have been losing income as more people stay at home and less people travel due to the public health crisis. Uber has recently started concentrating more of its services on food delivery as demand for this is growing. Drivers in…
Convenience-store chain 7-Eleven Thailand is recruiting 20,000 workers to make deliveries in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. With many Thai nationals, visitors and residents confining themselves to home in the interests of social distancing, and malls…
Twenty Hong Kong shopping malls have joined a program launched by Deliveroo to help food & beverage tenants survive the coronavirus by expanding their delivery business. Deliveroo expects the mall partnership program to generate at least HK$20 million (US$2.6…
Hong Kong food-delivery companies, Deliveroo and Foodpanda, have joined WWF’s Plastic Action Initiative (PACT) to help reduce single-use plastics. According to PACT rules, both companies have to follow sustainable requirements including setting up a default…
Hong Kong’s food delivery service leader, Deliveroo, today announces that they now have 200 virtual brands on the platform, having added 100 VBs in the past few months. Virtual brands expand consumers’ choice of delicious meals and support restauranteurs to…
Singapore food-delivery service Foodpanda has officially rolled-out its instant grocery delivery service, Pandamart, in Hong Kong after a trial commencing last November. Partnering with 1000 retailers and selling more than 14,000 items, Foodpanda has expanded…
Deliveroo has offered support for its Hong Kong restaurant partners as many of them are suffering from falling dine-in sales due to the coronavirus crisis. The company will reduce its commission rate for restaurant partners by 5 percent for a month, starting…
Food-delivery sales in Hong Kong soared 20 percent over Lunar New Year week as consumers chose to stay indoors, sheltering from the coronavirus. A spokesperson for Deliveroo told Inside Retail Asia that the Chinese New Year holiday period is usually a busy…
Tesla reported Friday a jump in fourth-quarter auto deliveries, lifting shares as it ramps up output in the United States and China. The electric automaker led by Elon Musk delivered 112,000 vehicles in the quarter ending December 31, up about 23 percent from…
Berlin-headquartered online food-delivery operator Delivery Hero has acquired Seoul-based rival Woowa for US$4 billion. The acquisition will see Delivery Hero owning 88 percent of Woowa, with the remaining shares to be acquired over time. Woowa operates food…
BMW India announced the introduction of ‘BMW Smart Repairs’ across its service network in the country. According to the company, the new repair service will ensure faster repairs and a reduction in cost for small and medium-size repairs. Targeted repairs…
