Dejbox sold to Carrefour

The Carrefour Group acquires Dejbox, a pioneer in lunch delivery for business employees.

Founded in 2015 by two talented entrepreneurs, Adrien Verhack and Vincent Dupied, Dejbox is an online canteen for business employees. They can choose their lunch from a wide range of fresh, cooked and seasonal dishes for the cost of a restaurant voucher (€5.90 to €8.90) and have it delivered to their workplace at no charge. To capture this huge, fast- changing market, Dejbox created an intuitive online and mobile user interface as well as top- quality, inexpensive menu offerings and a streamlined logistics operation – all designed to meet the needs of the more than 10 million French employees who work in the urban hinterland and very rarely have access to an onsite dining service.

Operating in Lille, Lyon, Paris, Bordeaux, Nantes and Grenoble, plus hundreds more towns and cities located near those metropolises, Dejbox delivers over 400,000 meals each month. Its growth has been spearheaded by more than 300 workers, including 140 food preparers and delivery personnel employed directly by Dejbox – a factor that sets the company apart from other meal delivery platforms that rely heavily on gig-economy workers.

As part of the Carrefour Group, Dejbox will be able to expand its French operations at a rapid pace and very quickly move into international markets as well. In addition, one of Dejbox’s next steps is to speed growth in B2B services, an important growth driver insofar as it lets companies assume a portion of the cost of employee lunches simply by transferring funds virtually to each employee’s online Dejbox account.

By drawing on a system of smart delivery routes and a unique network of partner caterers and merchants from local communities, this top-notch foodtech company has successfully created a positive business model that is ideally suited to the recent trend towards food delivery, particularly among millennials.