{"id":1031609,"date":"2026-08-28T07:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031609"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:02:12","slug":"delivery-hero-lifts-2026-outlook-on-strong-growth-amid-uber-takeover-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/28\/delivery-hero-lifts-2026-outlook-on-strong-growth-amid-uber-takeover-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivery Hero lifts 2026 outlook on strong growth amid Uber takeover bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German online takeaway food company Delivery Hero, subject to a takeover offer by U.S.-based rival Uber, lifted its guidance for 2026 on Thursday, helped by strengthening \u200cdemand and \u2060improved profitability. <\/p>\n<p>Its gross \u2060merchandise value, total value of all goods sold through the marketplace, is now expected \u200bto grow 9% to 11% this year, compared with the previous forecast for 8% \u200bto 10% growth. Analysts polled by the company had forecast yearly GMV growth of 9.1% to \u20ac51.63 billion ($60.17 billion) on average. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s adjusted earnings before \u200binterest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation grew 3.9% to \u20ac427 \u2060million in \u200cthe first half of 2026, exceeding analysts&#8217; estimate of \u20ac396 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German online takeaway food company Delivery Hero, subject to a takeover offer by U.S.-based rival Uber, lifted its guidance for 2026 on Thursday, helped by strengthening \u200cdemand and \u2060improved profitability. Its gross \u2060merchandise value, total value of all goods sold through the marketplace, is now expected \u200bto grow 9% to 11% this year, compared with the previous forecast for 8% \u200bto 10% growth. Analysts polled by the company had forecast yearly GMV growth of 9.1% to \u20ac51.63 billion ($60.17 billion) on average. The company&#8217;s adjusted earnings before \u200binterest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation grew 3.9% to \u20ac427 \u2060million in \u200cthe first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031632,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031609\/revisions\/1031632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}