Innovation and development stay top of mind at Delivery Hero’s global tech hubs

Berlin, 10 July 2023 –Delivery Hero, the world’s leading local delivery company, continues to place innovation at the forefront of its daily operations, with the goal of enhancing the quality of its local services. From developing local tech talents to improving the end-to-end order journey, keep reading for some key updates from the company’s global tech hubs over the last quarter.

foodpanda levels up local tech talent  

The first round of trainees have completed foodpanda’s inaugural PowerUp! Singapore Tech Traineeship Program, aimed to inspire, educate, and grow the local tech talent pool. During an action-packed six months, participants were equipped with the tools to kickstart their tech journey, learning the fundamentals of computer programming via Golang for the backend engineers and JavaScript and React for the frontend engineers. They then had the opportunity to apply their learnings with on-the-job training within foodpanda teams.

Glovo enters the fashion world

Glovo continued to innovate and expand its service by venturing into the world of fashion. Glovo Fashion is now available in Madrid and Barcelona and offers users products from more than 40 leading reference brands in the clothing industry.

We want to become the perfect ally so that fashion brands can reach their users in an agile, comfortable, and easy way. With Glovo Fashion, users can buy all their favorite items with just one click and receive them in an average of 30 minutes.

Borja Olazabal, Director of Quick Commerce, Glovo

Testing the waters of ChatGPT

Yemeksepeti has expanded food and product descriptions through ChatGPT, putting innovative new solutions within the tech sector to use. Making the ordering process even easier with this fast and innovative breakthrough, Yemeksepeti has added detailed descriptions for more than 17 thousand products. 

Over in MENA, talabat leveraged ChatGPT to become the first in the region to launch an AI grocery shopping assistant. talabat AI was launched to the company’s pro users, and uses generative AI to allow customers to search for recipes and identify the corresponding available ingredients at the same time through talabat Mart, the company’s grocery delivery service. This step is part of talabat’s vision to simplify everyday life, exploring tech-enabled ways to enhance customer experience and innovative solutions. 

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ABOUT DELIVERY HERO
Delivery Hero is the world’s leading local delivery platform, operating its service in over 70 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. The Company started as a food delivery service in 2011 and today runs its own delivery platform on four continents. Additionally, Delivery Hero is pioneering quick commerce, the next generation of e-commerce, aiming to bring groceries and household goods to customers in under one hour and often in 20 to 30 minutes. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. For more information, please visit www.deliveryhero.com