Austria’s Competition Authority Investigates Foodora
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- Austria’s Federal Competition Authority completed a review of online food-delivery platforms and opened an investigation into suspected abuse of market power.
- The authority did not name a company, but the market leader Foodora is reportedly in focus.
- Regulators criticized restaurants’ dependence on delivery platforms, contract terms and penalty fees.
Austria’s Federal Competition Authority has opened an investigation into suspected abuse of market power in the online food-delivery sector.
The move follows the authority’s completed examination of the market for food-delivery platforms. Although it did not identify a company by name, the market leader Foodora appears to be the focus of the inquiry.
The authority said restaurants had become dependent on delivery platforms and criticized what it described as problematic contract clauses and penalty fees.
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Originally published by Der Standard in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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