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Business Wars Daily

Deliveroo Goes Public...And It’s a “Flopperoo”

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today is Wednesday, April 21, and we’re looking at Deliveroo vs. Uber.

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Today we start with a brief trip across the pond to the UK, where food delivery app Deliveroo is having a rough go of it lately,

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the company known for its bicycle riding couriers who deliver food from restaurants to customers

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at home, was all geared up for its much-anticipated IPO. But in the weeks leading up to its

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March 31st trading debut, Deliveroo started to, well, fall out of favor with potential investors.

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See, at issue was the way Deliveroo allegedly treats its couriers, those folks who do the actual

1:51.1

heavy lifting that keeps the company afloat. Just days before the IPO, London's Bureau of

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Investigative Journalism released a report, and it did not look good for Deliveroo's head honchos. The report

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