EU antitrust agency raids several online food and grocery delivery firms

A number of on-line meals and grocery delivery firms in two EU nations have been raided over issues they could be in a cartel, the EU antitrust regulator mentioned on Wednesday, in a transfer that might put the companies liable to hefty fines.

The European Fee, which acts because the competitors enforcer within the 27-country bloc, didn’t title the businesses or the nations focused by the raids.

“The investigation issues an alleged settlement or concerted follow to share nationwide markets for the net ordering and supply of meals, groceries and different shopper items within the European Union,” the EU antitrust company mentioned in an announcement.

Simply Eat Takeaway, the largest on-line meal supply firm working within the EU, mentioned it was not conscious of any EU investigation into its actions.

“To the very best of our information, Simply Eat Takeaway.com just isn’t presently beneath investigation by the European Fee (formal or casual) in respect of any attainable cope with different on-line food delivery suppliers to ‘share nationwide markets’,” an organization spokesperson mentioned.

A spokesperson for Uber, which owns the Uber Eats meals supply service, mentioned it had not been focused by the EU.

Firms discovered responsible of breaching EU antitrust guidelines face fines as much as 10% of their international turnover.

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