July 16 – Uber will buy Delivery Hero in a deal valuing the German firm at $14.8 billion to create the largest food-delivery group outside China and stave off intensifying competition.
The transaction continues a consolidation spurred by a slowdown in orders from the pandemic peaks as well as pressure to improve margins.
Here are details on how the food-delivery companies stack up globally:
Company Region Revenue Employees Market Notes
cap
DoorDash USA/Global $13.71 billion 31,400 $82.86 Purchased
in fiscal 2025 employees billio Deliveroo for
worldwide, n $3.9 billion
as of in 2025
December
31, 2025
Meituan China 364.85 billion 111,298 $68.70 About 3.3%
yuan ($53.91 full-time billio owned by
billion) in employees, n BlackRock
fiscal 2025 as of
December
31, 2025
Uber Eats USA $17.24 billion Uber had Uber: Unit of
in fiscal 2025 34,000 $147.9 ride-hailing
– Uber employees, 3 giant Uber
delivery unit as of billio
which December n
includes Uber 31, 2025
Eats
Eternal Ltd India Adjusted rev: 6,903 (on $28.20 Popularly
215.81 billion standalone billio known as
Indian rupees basis) n Zomato
($2.24 and16,375
billion) in FY (on
25 consolidat
ed basis)
as of
March 31,
2025
Grab Southeast Asia $3.37 billion 12,012 $15.62 Went public in
in FY 25 full-time billio December 2021
employees n through a
as of record-breakin
December g $40 billion
31, 2025 SPAC merger
Delivery Hero Germany/Global Total segment As of $13.30 About 16.8%
rev: €14.80 December billio owned by
billion 31, 2025, n Prosus
($16.97 Delivery
billion) in FY Hero
2025 employed
54,721
staff
Just Eat Netherlands/Euro $1.92 billion – – Acquired by
Takeaway.com pe (for the Prosus, deal
six-month closed in
post-acquisiti October 2025
on period on for €4.2
31st March billion ($4.82
2026) billion)
Swiggy India Adjusted rev. 4,488 $7.31 22.3% owned by
FY 2026: permanent billio Prosus
243.15 billion employees, n
Indian rupees as of
($2.52 March 31,
billion) 2025
($1 = 6.7682 Chinese yuan renminbi)
($1 = 0.8723 euros)
($1 = 96.3450 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Anzar Mehraj in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
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