“Manna Aero Collaborates with Takeaway Just Eat for Drone Delivery Service” 

Ire­land-based Drone Deliv­ery com­pa­ny, Man­na Aero, is to col­lab­o­rate with take­away giant, Just Eat, to rev­o­lu­tionise the way peo­ple can receive their future food orders, reports a press release.

Start­ing in Ire­land, the plan is to expand the ser­vice across Europe, to make deliv­er­ies faster and more flex­i­ble, espe­cial­ly dur­ing peak times as well as to cov­er more remote areas. 

The first roll­out loca­tion is to be in Dublin. Cus­tomers order­ing from par­tic­i­pat­ing restau­rants will now be able to opt for drone deliv­ery and receive their meals in as lit­tle as three min­utes.

Bob­by Healy, Founder and CEO of Man­na, enthused, “This is a piv­otal mile­stone for drone deliv­ery in Europe. By com­bin­ing our exper­tise in scal­able drone oper­a­tions with Just Eat’s vast cus­tomer base and logis­tics net­work, we’re set­ting the stan­dard for sus­tain­able, con­ve­nient and safe food deliv­ery.”

Manna’s drone net­work cur­rent­ly oper­ates under Euro­pean Union avi­a­tion safe­ty agency (EASA) reg­u­la­tions, and the firm is active­ly work­ing with local author­i­ties to expand the ser­vice to more coun­tries.

Bob­by Healy

The exper­tise both par­ties hold is impres­sive. Man­na Aero has already car­ried out over 165,000 suc­cess­ful deliv­er­ies in Ire­land, and is one of the largest drone deliv­ery oper­a­tors in Europe, trans­port­ing every­thing from med­i­cine, health­care prod­ucts and food to books. 

Just Eat has rapid­ly grown to become a lead­ing online food deliv­ery mar­ket­place right across Europe and the world with oper­a­tions from Ger­many and Den­mark to Italy, Ire­land and Poland. Oth­er coun­tries include Cana­da and Aus­tralia.

Based in Ams­ter­dam, the com­pa­ny has 356,000 con­nect­ed part­ners and over 84 mil­lion active glob­al cus­tomers. In the UK and Ire­land alone, the com­pa­ny in 2023, gen­er­at­ed EUR1.3 bil­lion, account­ing for 245 mil­lion orders from 18 mil­lion clients.

This is a huge deal for Man­na Aero.

Jes­si­ca Hall, the Just Eat Chief Prod­uct Offi­cer, com­ment­ed, “We’re very excit­ed to be work­ing with Man­na to offer an alter­na­tive form of deliv­ery, ensur­ing cus­tomers receive what they want, when they want it.”

She con­tin­ued, “This part­ner­ship is the lat­est in our com­mit­ment to test­ing inno­v­a­tive solu­tions that enhance con­ve­nience and improve user expe­ri­ence.”

Drones will be deployed from local deliv­ery hubs oper­at­ed by Man­na.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.manna.aero

https://www.justeattakeaway.com/home/default.aspx

(Images: Man­na Aero/Just Eat)

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