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2Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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Uber Acquires Drizly for $1.1 billion

February 02, 2021, SAN FRANCISCO & BOSTON-- Cab booking platform Uber to acquire Drizly for approximately $1.1 billion in stock and cash deal. Drizly is the leading on-demand alcohol marketplace available in more than 1,400 cities across a majority of US states. Drizly works with thousands of local merchants to provide consumers with an incredible selection of beer, wine, and spirits with competitive, transparent pricing. After the completion of the transaction, Drizly will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Uber. Drizly’s marketplace will eventually be integrated with the Uber Eats app, while also maintaining a separate Drizly app. Merchants on Drizly will be able to benefit from Uber’s best-in-class routing technology and significant consumer base. Delivery drivers will ha...

Starbucks to Add Delivery Services to more than 2,000 Stores Through Uber Eats

The most popular coffee store Starbucks is expanding its partnership with Uber Eats to more than 2,000 stores in the United States next year, about a quarter of all of the company’s locations in the country. Starbucks first launched its program, Starbuck Delivers, as a pilot in September, serving people in Miami and Tokyo. Its coffee delivery roots actually began in China through a partnership with Alibaba and on-demand food delivery service Ele.me. The company also piloted a delivery service through two supermarkets in Shanghai and Hangzhou. It’s an experiment that appears to have had some success. Starbucks Delivers has reached 2,000 stores across 30 cities in China since launching three months ago, the company said at its investor conference Thursday.Now it’s taking what it learne...

CCD and Uber Eats Partner to Launch Virtual Restaurant Chain in India

Food delivery major Uber Eats has entered into an association with cafe chain Café Coffee Day (CCD) to launch a network of virtual restaurants across multiple brands. These will be available for delivery exclusively on Uber Eats. In this partnership, Uber Eats will share data, analytics and insights with CCD to help the latter identify food that is most desired and thus design cuisine-specific menus under various brands that will be separate from its existing menu and available for delivery only. This partnership will allow Café Coffee Day and Uber Eats to launch menu offerings as per evolving consumer trends, for multiple ‘delivery-only’ virtual restaurants. Bhavik Rathod, Head of UberEats in India and South Asia on the partnership said, “The virtual restaurant model will use the exis...