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JUST EAT plc
21 January 2019
Just Eat plc
("Just Eat", the "Company" or the "Group")
Board and Trading Update
21 January 2019
Board Update
The Board of Just Eat plc (LSE: JE), a leading global
marketplace for takeaway food delivery, announces changes to its
Board.
Peter Plumb is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer and a
Director of the Company. Peter Duffy, Chief Customer Officer, is
being appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer and a Director
of the Company. These changes take place with immediate effect. The
search for a permanent replacement will begin immediately.
Chairman Mike Evans commented: "The Board would like to thank
Peter Plumb for setting Just Eat on a new course which better
places it to address a much larger and rapidly expanding market. We
wish him well for the future.
"Peter Duffy and the senior leadership team will continue to
drive the execution of our strategy, which has the full backing of
the Board. Peter Duffy and Paul Harrison, Chief Financial Officer,
will provide a full update to the market at our full year
results."
Peter Plumb commented: "2018 was another year of strong growth
for the Group. The business is in good health, and now is the right
time for me to step aside and make way for a new leader for the
next exciting wave of growth."
Trading Update
2018 has been transformational for Just Eat. In line with our
objectives, we developed our marketplace into a world-class
experience for our customers and partners, and we engineered our
delivery services to be best-in-class to complement our
marketplace.
The results of these initiatives have surpassed our
expectations. We now anticipate reporting full year 2018 orders of
221 million, revenue of around GBP780 million and underlying
EBITDA(1) in the range of GBP172 million - 174 million.(2)
As we move into 2019, Just Eat is strongly positioned to take
advantage of the rapidly-growing GBP83 billion+ market opportunity
in takeaway food delivery. Our unrivalled marketplace reach,
combined with the roll-out of our winning delivery platform,
creates a unique hybrid platform which gives our growing customer
base the best of both worlds through access to more choice and
better service.
In 2019, we will leverage the improvements we have made in our
marketplace business to drive order and revenue growth, while we
now also expect to grow marketplace EBITDA margins year on year.
Furthermore, we anticipate 2019 will see our Canadian business,
SkipTheDishes, report its first full year profit, confirming the
route to profitability for delivery services.
We will invest this increased profit to accelerate our exciting
delivery initiatives along the pathway towards profitability,
principally in the UK and Australia. The targeted roll-out of
delivery in key zones will allow us to increase our overall
customer base and serve even more brilliant food moments.
In Latin America, iFood has already communicated its plans to
invest in the significant opportunity it sees in the high-growth
markets of Brazil and Mexico for further penetration of their
GBP26bn takeaway market. Our operations in Mexico and Brazil are
managed by our joint venture partner and will be excluded from our
reported underlying EBITDA from full year 2019 onwards.
The Board therefore expects to report full year 2019 revenue in
the range of GBP1 billion to GBP1.1 billion and underlying EBITDA
(both excluding Brazil and Mexico) in the range of GBP185 million
to GBP205 million(2) . Under iFood's latest plan, the Board expects
Just Eat's LatAm operations (being Brazil and Mexico together) to
report an EBITDA loss in the range of GBP80 million to GBP100
million.
The Group will provide further detail on its plans at its full
year 2018 results on 6 March 2019.
The only disclosure to be made pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13
is that Peter Duffy also serves as an Independent Non-executive
Director of Close Brothers Group plc.
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Enquiries:
Just Eat +44 (0)20 3667 6961
Mike Evans, Chairman
Peter Duffy, Interim CEO
Paul Harrison, CFO
Rachael Malcolm, Investor Relations
Ralph Charlton, Corporate Communications
Brunswick Group LLP +44 (0)20 7404 5959
Sarah West, David Litterick, Chris Buscombe
About Just Eat:
Just Eat plc (LSE: JE) operates a leading global marketplace for
takeaway food delivery. Headquartered in London, we use proprietary
technology to offer a quick and efficient digital ordering service
for over 25 million customers and over 100,000 restaurant partners
across the UK, Australia & New Zealand, Canada, Denmark,
France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and
Brazil.
Notes to Editors:
Peter Duffy Biography
Peter Duffy was appointed Chief Customer Officer of Just Eat in
June 2018. He joined the Group from easyJet PLC, where he held a
number of senior roles including Chief Commercial Officer. He
previously held senior roles at Audi UK Ltd and Barclays Bank PLC.
Peter is an Independent Non-executive Director of Close Brothers
Group plc.
Meaningful Consensus
As at 18 January 2019, Company collated consensus figures were
as follows:
-- FY18 Revenue of GBP775 million with underlying EBITDA of GBP168 million
-- FY19 Revenue of GBP995 million with underlying EBITDA of GBP204 million
These figures include only those analysts who have published
updated figures since our Q3 Trading Update.
[1] The main measure of profitability used by management to
assess the performance of the Group's businesses is Underlying
EBITDA. It is defined as earnings before finance income and costs,
taxation, depreciation and amortisation ("EBITDA"), and
additionally excludes long-term employee incentive costs,
exceptional items, foreign exchange gains and losses, other gains
and losses, and the share of results from associates falling
outside of this definition
2 2018 results include Mexico (for orders, revenue and EBITDA)
and Brazil (for Just Eat's share of iFood Brazil's EBITDA)
(3) Full year 2019 underlying EBITDA guidance assumes the
adoption of IFRS 16: Leases
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