AirAsia Group has set its sights to grow to be the largest food delivery and ride-hailing company in Asia. According to a report by The Edge, CEO Tan Sri Tony Fernandes is assured that AirAsia Food and its “super app” can type one among the greatest on-line journey businesses in Asia.
This is on the again of the profitable acquisition of native on-line food delivery platform, Delivereat. “When (I started) AirAsia, I always wondered if we can become the biggest airline, and we did. We are the fourth biggest airline in Asia… We started with only two planes, 200,000 passengers, and now we have grown to 90 million passengers,” Fernandes stated.
“So I sit back and think, can we become the biggest food delivery company and ride hailing company? Today, I officially say, I think we can… I think we’d go out there and (outgrow) existing competitors the same way we outgrew other airlines,” he added. AirAsia is presently being traded at 58 sen a share on the KLSE (as of 10 am).
Fernandes stated the app’s full vary of providers may even be rolled out to Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines in the close to future. Now with a much bigger staff, the CEO stated the group is “truly excited” about the new partnership, because it helps the group’s technique to proceed serving the underserved and grow to be the greatest worth delivery company in ASEAN.
In August final 12 months, AirAsia’s digital logistics enterprise Teleport absolutely acquired Delivereat for US$9.8 million (RM41 million) to strengthen its delivery service in the nation. Fernandes stated he was impressed with Delivereat’s means to stand by itself, sustaining sustainability with its operations and providing enterprise and employment platform to the group.
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