The European Commission has doled out a total of €329 million in fines to online food delivery group Delivery Hero and its subsidiary Glovo for operating a cartel in the run-up to their 2022 merger.
The Commission said that Germany-based Delivery Hero illegally shared sensitive information with rival Glovo over the course of four years as part of a strategy to box-out competitors in the fast-growing food delivery sector.
The conduct kicked off after Delivery Hero took a minority stake in its Spanish rival in 2018, from which point it began collecting information on nearly every aspect of its rival’s business in what a Commission official labeled a ‘WhatsApp cartel’.