Online takeaway company Just Eat is to gobble up rival hungryhouse in a £200m deal.

It has agreed to buy the UK business from Berlin-based owner Delivery Hero and the price could rise by an additional £40m based on performance.

The deal is subject to approval by the UK's competition watchdog.

London-based Just Eat also announced that it is to buy Canada's SkipThe Dishes for £66m - part of its rapid international expansion since it was founded in Denmark in 2001.

Just Eat now serves more than 16 million takeaway customers and some 60,000 restaurants in 13 countries, with latest annual revenues at £248m and pre-tax profit of £35m.


The acquisition of hungryhouse is expected to add up to £15m to earnings.

Just Eat provides an online platform and delivery drivers for restaurants that pay for the service, in a growing sector that also includes Uber and Deliveroo.

Chief executive David Buttress said that while it had seen major global expansion, the UK had been an "engine of growth" and the hungryhouse deal would extend its market presence.

Jefferies analyst David Reynolds said the deal removed the possibility of a tie-up between hungryhouse and a rival such as Deliveroo that could have been seen as a threat to Just Eat.