An increasing appetite for takeaways throughout its international markets drove up Deliveroo’s order numbers in the first quarter.
The food delivery group returned to order growth in the three months between January and March, recording a total of of 73.5 million, a 2 per cent increase on the same period last year.
Overall growth was helped by its international markets, with orders here increasing by 4 per cent to 33.7 million. Will Shu, 44, the company’s co-founder and chief executive, said there had been particularly strong progress in France, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong. Trading in Italy remained resilient, but he conceded that in Britain and Ireland, its largest market, it was “stable but uncertain”. Orders in the UK and Ireland were flat,
