Foodpanda delivery service to exit Thailand

A Foodpanda driver speeds away to deliver food. The platform plans to exit Thailand next month. Photo by Somchai Poomlard
A Foodpanda driver speeds away to deliver food. The platform plans to exit Thailand next month. Photo by Somchai Poomlard

Foodpanda will stop operating its platform, food and grocery delivery services in Thailand on May 23, its parent company Delivery Hero announced on Wednesday.

The company has also previously stopped operations in countries such as Denmark, Ghana, Slovakia and Slovenia, the Berlin-based company said in a statement.

Delivery Hero will continue concentrating efforts in other parts of Asia Pacific where the group sees greater returns, it added.

The company said its Thailand-based regional team, which provides services such as marketing and human resources operations for the Asia-Pacific region, would continue to operate as usual.

Foodpanda had been struggling in the hyper-competitive Thai food delivery market, with a share just under 15%, a distant third behind Lineman Wongnai (44%) and GrabFood (39.4%).

In a market valued at an estimated 86 billion baht, only GrabFood has begun to report a modest profit. According to the business analytics firm Creden Data, Foodpanda had accumulated net losses of 13.8 billion baht from 2014-23.

Delivery Hero tried to sell part of the Foodpanda business in Southeast Asia last year but was unable to reach an agreement with prospective buyers.

Vocabulary

  • competitive: having a high level of close competition - แข่งขันสูง
  • concentrating: directing your efforts towards a particular activity, subject or problem - เพ่งความสนใจไปยัง มุ่งไปที่
  • human resources: people's skills and abilities, seen as something a company, an organisation, etc. can make use of - กำลังคน, ทรัพยากรมนุษย์
  • hyper-: more than normal; extremely; too much - มาก, เหนือ, เกิน, สูง
  • modest: fairly small - พอประมาณ ค่อนข้างเล็ก
  • operation: a business activity - การดำเนินการทางธุรกิจ
  • prospective: likely to be or become a particular thing - ซึ่งคาดคะเนไว้, ที่คาดหวังไว้, ที่มุ่งหวัง
  • returns (noun): the amount of profit that you get from something; the amount of money you earn - เงินรายได้
  • struggling: having serious difficulties - มีความยุ่งยาก

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