Shares of its holdings in the two companies will be listed by 2016, ecommercefacts.com reports. This is the next step of the start-up investor in taking over the ecommerce world. Rocket Internet views itself as the creator of an ecommerce operating empire, while investors mainly see it as a path for future stock market listings of everything from online fashion to home furnishings to personal finance firms.
The two groups contain firms from different countries and are spread over a broad spectrum. The Global Online Takeaway Group, that has been set-up in February, 2015, is constituted of the German Delivery Hero and its opponent FoodPanda. The companies are present on 64 markets and have 140 thousand restaurants.
In Delivery Hero Rocket Internet holds 40% of the shares and the latter is planning its own IPO in 2016 that is meant to take place abroad. The Global Fashion Group include five start-ups that are in the hands of Rocket Internet and the holding of luxury fashion Kinnevik. The start-ups are from South-America (Dafiti), Indi (Jabong), Rusland (Lamoda), the Middle-East (Namshi) and Asia (Zalora).
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