Professor John Colley from the Warwick Business School, discussing mergers and acquisitions in the food delivery sector.
- Just Eat Takeaway's acquisition of GrubHub, and the pandemic demand for home delivery
- Post-pandemic food delivery trends
- Sale of GrubHub and Just Eat Takeaway's acquisition by Prosus
- Immense demand for businesses in 2021 and early 2022
- Timing of M&A activity
- Avoiding high prices in M&A
- Factors that inflated GrubHub's value
- Investors betting on industry consolidation
- Does size matter in M&A, and how big is big?
- Delivery companies being bought by private equity