Germany's Delivery Hero to carry more food in Southeast Asia

Purchase of South Korea's Woowa will heat up race with Grab and Gojek

Woowa Brothers delivers food from more than 200,000 restaurants in South Korea.

KOTARO HOSOKAWA and KOSEI FUKAO, Nikkei staff writers

February 29, 2020 17:38 JST

SEOUL/FRANKFURT, Germany -- Multinational meal-ordering service Delivery Hero seeks a bigger portion of Southeast Asia's market with its planned acquisition of South Korean peer Woowa Brothers, intensifying a battle with rivals such as Grab and Gojek over the fast-growing region.