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Just Eat serves healthy increase in sales over summer months | Just Eat serves healthy increase in sales over summer months |
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Takeaway meals-ordering website Just Eat has posted a healthy 56 per cent rise in sales in the summer months from July to September. | Takeaway meals-ordering website Just Eat has posted a healthy 56 per cent rise in sales in the summer months from July to September. |
This included orders through its French site Alloresto, where it recently upped its stake to 80 per cent. Underlying orders in the UK rose by 51 per cent. | This included orders through its French site Alloresto, where it recently upped its stake to 80 per cent. Underlying orders in the UK rose by 51 per cent. |
That was compared against the July heatwave of 2013, which severely knocked orders, and the firm said that it looked forward to the key colder winter months with confidence. | That was compared against the July heatwave of 2013, which severely knocked orders, and the firm said that it looked forward to the key colder winter months with confidence. |
Chief executive David Buttress said: “I am very pleased with our performance over the summer, a period when even more consumers have enjoyed the benefits of our online marketplace for takeaway food, particularly via their mobile devices. | Chief executive David Buttress said: “I am very pleased with our performance over the summer, a period when even more consumers have enjoyed the benefits of our online marketplace for takeaway food, particularly via their mobile devices. |
“We are in an excellent position as we enter the important winter period and remain confident for the full year,” he added. | “We are in an excellent position as we enter the important winter period and remain confident for the full year,” he added. |
Just Eat floated on the stock market at 260p a share exactly seven months ago. Investors have had a roller-coaster ride, with the shares falling as low as 187p and as high as 325p. | |
Today they were unmoved at 308p. | Today they were unmoved at 308p. |
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