Almost 40% of employees from food delivery startup Foodpanda’s Romania office have been asked to leave the company since Spanish speedy grocery unicorn Glovo acquired the business.
A total of 89 employees, mostly call-centre agents, were announced to be laid off earlier this year, according to the British publication Sifted, which cites former and current Foodpanda employees. Their jobs will be outsourced.
The acquisition was announced in May 2021 amid a series of other Glovo buyouts in the region, that saw the company pick up several smaller food delivery businesses including Foodpanda Bulgaria, Pauza in Croatia and Donesi in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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