Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Irish-owned digital food-ordering platform Flipdish is to create around 200 jobs in Ireland in 2022. This is part of a wider expansion to hire 700 people worlwide this year. The new roles will include software architects, data scientists, engineers, and product designers.
The company has achieved a valuation of 1.25 billion euros and is the new Irish unicorn (a private start-up worth over 1 billion dollars), after about 100 million dollars of investments led by Tencent. Flipdish provides restaurants technology for online ordering for pickup and delivery; the technology also allows customers to order and pay at their table, among other uses.
Flipdish currently operates in 25 countries, including France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, the UK and the US. It was founded in 2015.
Eurofound (2022), Flipdish, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 106343, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/106343.
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