DoorDash takes a bite out of the U.K. food delivery market
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DoorDash is buying one of Europe's largest food delivery companies. Good morning. This is the Marketplace Morning Report. And we're live from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne.

So the UK-based food delivery app Deliveroo is being taken over by the US giant DoorDash in a $3.8 billion deal. The BBC's Sean Farrington is looking at this one for us. Hello, Sean. Hello. Sean, just explain to us what Deliveroo is because it doesn't operate in the US. No, it's a food delivery app, so it would be very similar to the DoorDash service that people in the United States will be used to. Probably doesn't have quite as many services on it as DoorDash does. It

Primarily, it has been restaurants and takeaways. And then in more recent times, it's moved into the grocery delivery market a little bit. Myself and yourself were actually on the day that it listed on the London Stock Exchange. I was your producer. I was hyped up as this really big deal, but it was a bit of a flop in the end, wasn't it? Yeah, there was a lot of hype behind it because there haven't been so many big businesses that have been choosing the London Stock Exchange yet.

as the place to list and gain investment in recent years, and particularly tech businesses as well, where we know a lot of that has focused on listings in New York. So Deliveroo being on the stock markets in London was a big deal. And yes, the share price did take a bit of a tumble once it listed. And actually, the value of this deal is only around half of where it was at the peak of the heyday of

of the hype behind the business. But they will still see it as a good deal. You know, almost $4 billion this deal is worth. So a lot smaller compared to the whole value of DoorDash, which is worth, I think, upwards of $80 billion. What is DoorDash getting from taking over Deliveroo? The UK, for a start, the market in the UK. So Deliveroo is one of the biggest players here and DoorDash doesn't have a footprint in the UK. So there isn't really an overlap between...

between the businesses. So that's clearly one thing. And it sees the UK, we like our takeaways here, as a place where it can implement some of its successes and maybe grow the business in a bit of a different way to how delivery would have done. Taking a bite out of the market. I had to say it. I'm sorry, Sean. Sean Farrington, thank you so much for joining us on Marketplace. Thanks, Leanna.

Germany's DAX is down 2% after the leader of Germany's Conservative Party, CDU, Friedrich Merz, unexpectedly failed to win the parliamentary majority he needs to become Chancellor. The BBC's Jessica Parker is there. We were not expecting a lot of political drama here today. The expectation was that Friedrich Merz would turn up, the vote would happen, he'd go over to the President's residence, come back and be sworn in.

Important to say, that could all still happen. We think there's going to be further rounds of voting, but this is pretty bad and embarrassing news for Friedrich Merz. That was Jessica Parker with that report. Now, let's do the numbers.

Chinese e-commerce giants Sheen and Timu are boosting their advertising in Europe as they shift away from the US. Spending is up 40% in some markets. That's according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Tesla's new car sales in Britain tumbled by 62% in April compared to last year's lowest point in two years.

Meanwhile, in New Zealand, its Prime Minister wants to keep kids under 16 off social media. Christopher Luxon says his government is working on a new bill that he says will protect them from things like online bullying and harmful content. It's similar to laws passed in Australia last year.

Now, when Donald Trump took office, one of his first moves was to declare a national emergency at the southern border with Mexico. There was a big push on deportations at the start, but since then, the rate has more or less returned to what it was under past presidents. Some businesses in Mexico are now actively recruiting English-speaking deportees. From the border city of Tijuana, here's the BBC's Will Grant.

Over a steady hum of activity, operators at the Easy Call Centre in Tijuana work through long lists of US phone numbers. All the agents speak fluent English, and the people at the other end of the line are none the wiser. They're talking to agents in Mexico rather than the US.

In fact, virtually every phone operator in the company is a deportee, including Easy Call Center's owner, Daniel Ruiz. We all are dealing with culture shock. We have all of our life over there, went to school over there, watched TV over there, you know, like, brought up on American culture. And we have family over there. Born in Mexico, he grew up in the United States before he was deported for low-level drug crime in his early 20s.

Today, he runs the successful telesales company and co-founded a humanitarian organization called the Borderline Crisis Center. The latest U.S. returnee at the company is Alberto Salagan, who was deported to Tijuana in January. I just pretty much landed here.

I'm at the San Isidro border crossing, one of the busiest international border crossings in the world for so many deportees being returned to Tijuana with the United States still visible on the other side of the border.

is a harrowing experience. Some haven't lived in this country since they were children or even babies. Nevertheless, some companies have found distinct advantages to employing deportees as staff members. So we're looking at where our agents work. This is a main area for... In particular, one company, the American Survey Company, or ASC, stands out.

It's one thing for a smaller venture like Easy Call Centre to rely on deportees, but ASC and its sister company Voxcentrics have some 550 call centre stations in Tijuana.

Whatever happened in the U.S. stays in the U.S. Nora Diaz is the chief happiness officer at the company. We understand that everybody has a past. We just need people who speak good English, good Spanish, and they're willing to learn and commit to a job. So far, the Trump administration's threat of mass deportation remains exactly that, a threat.

but it has become a powerful tool in dissuading migrants from even attempting to cross into the US. In Mexico, I'm the BBC's Will Grant for Marketplace. And that's it from the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne. Have a great day and thanks so much for listening.

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