Interview on ‘City’ Magazine

By admin on July 19, 2011 in News

City is a free newspaper distributed in various Italian cities with a large distribution and part of one of Italy’s largest media groups: RCS.

I have recently been interviewed with the double objective of finding out about the expansion of Just-Eat into Italy and to pick my brain about the ‘brain-drain’ in my homecountry.

NB: the google translation really is not 100% accurate!

I was very interested in the angle this interview took and unfortunately we did not have time to explore the subject of the brain-drain in enough depth. Hopefully there will be another opportunity soon!

For the moment I am particularly happy to have a seat on the board of Just-Eat Italy and finally being able to work in Italy after a few years abroad.

PS:Special thanks to Gianluca Torti for the interview!

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TripIt, travellers best friend

By admin on June 26, 2011 in Travel

If you – like me are a frequent traveller then you know the pain that comes with remembering Flight codes, departure times, hotel names & addresses. Now think of when you forgot to print some important documents that have all that information on them. Or maybe you forgot your Frequent Flyer number…sounds familiar?

Welcome to my world! Fortunately all of that changed for me when I started using  TripIt – by far my favourite iPhone application (though the same exists for Android and as a mobile site).

The way it works is very easy – every time you book a flight online you get an email confirmation: just forward that to plans@tripit.com and it will automatically recognize your email address and summarize your travel details for you. It will record everything from the passenger names, flight code, check-in time etc…
You can do exactly the same with hotels or certain trains. Unless you have a specific need to print out the email confirmation – you can just forget about it and bring your mobile device with you…all the information you need will appear in your TripIt profile (or App).

I can’t recommend this application enough – whether the basic version or the Pro version are really useful. If you are a frequent traveller it’ll save you a ton of time!

This really sounds like an advert – however it’s a completely spontaneous recommendation: my colleague showed this to me and I have used it ever since, it’s such a useful app that they deserve the free mention!

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Just-Eat acquires Clickeat in Italy

Just-Eat acquires Clickeat in Italy

By admin on May 24, 2011 in Just-Eat

I am proud to announce that the Just-Eat Group has purchased Clickeat.it – the Italian market leader in online food ordering. The acquisition comes after a lot of hard work from Just-Eat’s international team.

With Clickeat.it we now have a great platform to start our Italian operations: Antonino Guarnaccia & Ivan Molella (the founders of Clickeat) have done a fantastic job during the first years of activity educating the Italian market about the online ordering opportunity, building a solid B2C and B2B base that we are now ready to take to the next level.

I am currently a member of the Italian board and I am particularly happy about launching into my homecountry after launching Just-Eat into so many different markets abroad. Southern Europe is ready for this opportunity and at Just-Eat we are very happy to be playing a part – first with our Spanish Launch (late 2010) and now with the Italian launch & Clickeat’s acquisition. On the other hand the Italian food delivery market – together with the already vibrant e-commerce market – has been growing very fast during the last couple of years in Italy. We are excited and expect great results!

Italia – stiamo arrivando!!! :-)

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