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Welcome to the Delivery Hero Q2 2026 Trading Update. Today's presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. For those of you who have joined the Zoom webinar, you can use the raised hand function at the bottom of your Zoom screen at any time to join the queue to ask a question, and you'll be called upon during the Q&A session. If you have dialed in, please press star nine to enter the queue. If you want to withdraw your question, please lower your hand using the raised hand function in the Zoom app or via telephone press star 9. I will now hand the call over to Andrea Fares Estrada to begin the presentation. Thank you.

Hello and welcome to our Q2 2026 earnings call. I'm joined today by Niklas Oestberg, CEO and Marie-Anne Popp, CFO on Delivery Hero. Together they will present the key highlights of our Q2 2026 results and the first half of 2026. Following their presentation, they will be delighted to address any questions you might have. Before we start, a quick note from our side. Please be advised that any information on the Uber transaction in this presentation does not constitute an offer of or a solicitation of an offer to purchase securities of Delivery Hero or of any of its subsidiaries in the US, Germany or any other jurisdiction. This information shall not form the basis of or be relied upon in connection with an offer in any jurisdiction. And now I will pass it to you, Niklas.

Thank you, Andrea, and welcome everyone also from my side and thank you for joining us today. Q2 is proof that the everyday app strategy is working. The investments we have made in the customer experience and increasing consumer choice are having a positive impact on both our growth and profitability. We have three key messages for you. First, growth is accelerating. Group GMV grew 11.3% like for like in Q2, up from 8.8% like for like in Q1. This was supported by broad-based performance across nearly every segment. We expect this momentum to continue through the second half of the year. Second, Profitability came in ahead of our expectations. Adjusted EBITDA grew 4% or 11% like for like in a period of heightened investment. On the back of these better-than-expected results, we are raising all four key metrics of our full-year guidance. GMV growth to 9-11%, revenue growth to 17-19%, adjusted EBITDA to €960 billion, and free cash flow to more than €250 million. Finally, an update on our structure. On July 16th, Uber announced a voluntary public takeover offer for all delivery of shares it does not already hold at €41.5 per share in cash. This represents a significant premium of approximately 35% to the three-month volume-weighted average price before the announcement. We are really excited about this opportunity. Uber's global platform and our everyday app strategy fit very well together, and I believe this is the right partnership to take our strategy further. separately we had already agreed to the sale of taiwan business to grab for 600 million us dollar in march with closing expected in the fourth quarter of this year now to execution the four Priorities for 2026 we shared in March remain the same. On Q2 showed we are executing against each of them. First, strengthening our leadership position. which we do by deepening loyalty and improving our customer proposition. Subscribers now represent 47% of Group GMV, up by 12 percentage points year on year with more room to grow. In Saudi Arabia, for example, subscribers now drive 63% of GMV, which is the highest share across the Group. Expanding QuickCommerce through a broad, relevant assortment, optimized picking and efficient last mile operations. This combination opens up new shopping occasions and expands our total addressable market. QuickCommerce has been a key contributor to accelerating growth, now contributing 18% of our GMV and growing 32% like for like. Third, using AI to make our product better, driving engagement, advertisement revenue and order frequency. Our recently announced AI Assistant for vendors and shops is a perfect example. It develops strategies for vendors to boost sales and can implement them directly. It spots what a busy owner would miss, a dish that is not selling or a review that needs a reply and a good moment to run a promotion and so on. And once the partner approves, it implements the change directly in a WhatsApp chat they already use. At Glovo, restaurant using it grew orders by 15%. It supports more than 40,000 partners today out of roughly 1.5 million on our platform, so you can see the runway from here. And fourth, the strategic review, which we started to unlock shareholder value and strengthen the balance sheet. The management board and the supervisory board evaluated a broad range of options and the agreement with Uber that we announced on July 16 is the outcome of that process. Let's have a look at our everyday strategy, which is ultimately the engine behind our strong results. Scaling our everyday app serves the primary catalyst for Delivery Hero's next legs of growth expanding our addressable market opportunity nearly fourfold from a 77 billion euro online grocery market to a 310 billion euro for multi-category. This market is also expanding rapidly with online grocery penetration across our markets is still used around five percent. So even within grocery alone, we have many years of growth ahead of us as structural opportunity of online grocery continues to increase. And the mechanism behind this is fairly simple, by systematically driving cross-category shopping from food to grocery to non-grocery, we see a significant uplift in monthly frequency, unlocking significant wallet share and driving sustained long-term growth. Our multivertical QuickCommerce customers are spending five times more than our single vertical customers. Demarts, the term used to refer to our own grocery fulfillment centers, are a key part of the everyday app strategy. They enable the consumers to get a full grocery shop to the door in under an hour and they are what turns an occasional food delivery customer into a weekly one. We started investing in fulfillment centers over five years ago, well before any of our competitors, and it's really paying off. Demart orders grew 39% year over year in Q2. That is our highest order growth rate in over three years and the sixth consecutive quarter of acceleration since Q1 25. Importantly, this momentum is not growth brought with new store rollouts. Orders per store are up 28% year over year. Customers are moving from the quick impulse purchase to the planned weekly or biweekly shop, and we are getting more out of the footprint we already have. Last year we delivered adjusted EBITDA breakeven for the segment showing this is a growth engine that delivers healthy return rates after the initial investment period.

Let me now turn to the offer.

Uber has announced a public takeover for all delivery of shares not already held by Uber at the price of 41.5 euro per share. That corresponds to the equivalent value of 13 billion euro and a premium of approximately 35% on a three-month volume-weighted average price to the announcement. In parallel, Delivery Hero will sell its business in 14 countries separately to SSW partners for approximately 1.4 billion euro. We are really excited about this partnership with Uber as it unlocks value and shows a lot of growth opportunities for our shareholders, employees and ecosystem partners. By uniting Delivery Hero's local food delivery and quick commerce business with Uber's global mobility and logistics platform, we bring together two highly complementary businesses. Driven by a shared commitment to innovation, this powerful partnership positions us to accelerate our everyday app strategy and deliver even greater value to our customers worldwide. The management board and the supervisory board unanimously support the offer and intend to recommend that shareholders tender into it. That intention is subject to the review of the published offer document. The recommendation will be set out formally in joint recent statement. Closing is expected in the second half of 2027, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals. A short orientation on the process. The decision to make an offer was announced on July 16th. Uber has now published the offer document. According to the document, the initial acceptance period started today and will expire on 5th November 2026. The management board and supervisor board will start their review now in compliance with the German takeover laws and prepare and will publish their joint recent statement in response to the offer documents in due course. The regulatory review and the clearance process is likely to remain outstanding when the offer results are published with closing expected in the second half of 2027. And now let me hand over to Marie-Anne who will guide us through the financial highlights.

Thank you, Niklas, and a warm welcome from my side as well. We had a strong first six months of the year 2026 behind us with continued strong top line growth throughout the period. GMV grew 10% like for like, reaching €25.7 billion and 4% growth in reported currency, with robust contributions from almost every segment. Revenue grew 18% on a like for like basis to €7.8 billion, once again growing faster than GMV. This was driven by three factors. The rapid scaling of quick commerce, accelerating momentum across our subscription and ad tech offerings, and the deliberate expansion of our own delivery operations. Alongside top-line growth, H1 adjusted EBITDA rose 4% year-over-year to €427 million, fully absorbing investments in QuickCommerce, Korea, and Mina, as well as FX Headwinds. On a like-for-like basis, adjusted EBITDA grew by 12% year-over-year. Pre-cash flow before extraordinary items improved significantly to €348 million. This year-over-year growth was driven by higher adjusted EBITDA and large working capital inflows due to calendar timing differences, which are expected to reverse in H2. Now let's turn to our Q2 performance. Q2 2026 was a strong quarter with top-line growth accelerating. Orders grew 11% on a like-for-like basis to €981 million. GMV grew in line with orders at 11% like-for-like, reaching €13.2 billion and 8% growth in reported currency. Revenue grew 18% on a like-for-like basis to €4 billion, once again growing faster than GMV. Now, let's turn to our segment performance, starting with Mina. MINA delivered a robust performance with GMV expanding 15% like for like to 2.4 billion euro while segment revenue increased by 14% to 1077 million euro. Delivering such strong results, particularly in light of the EAT calendar timing this year, underscores the underlying strength of our platform and the compelling service we provide to our customers. Saudi Arabia was a standard performer, delivering further top-line acceleration over Q1 alongside significant adjusted EBITDA margin expansion in the first half. This clearly validates the success of our targeted strategic investments, with high-value subscribers in Saudi Arabia now capturing 63% of GMV and quick commerce growth exceeding 60%. Talabat sustained its momentum, driven by customer acquisition, a broader vendor offering, strong subscriber adoption, deeper multivertical engagement, and a high-performing advertising business. Reflecting this fundamental strength, Talabat raised its full year guidance earlier this month. On profitability, adjusted EBITDA in MINA was marginally softer in the first half as the business successfully absorbed key growth investments alongside Talabat's strategic product mix shift towards groceries and retail. Now turning our focus to Asia. Asia accelerated for the second consecutive quarter with GMV growth of 6% on a like-for-like basis. This inflection is driven by robust top-line traction in South Korea. Segment revenue grew 11% on a like-for-like basis to €1.63 billion. This was driven by the rapid scaling of our attractive subscription offering and the continued rollout of our own delivery logistics, expanding by 5 percentage points year-over-year to reach 78% in Asia. QuickCommerce continues to scale rapidly, delivering 39% year-over-year growth in South Korea in Q2. This performance was driven by deepening customer engagement, marked by higher order frequency. From a margin perspective, the segment's adjusted EBITDA to GMV margin was just 20 basis points softer in H1, which reflects the targeted gross investments in South Korea to drive growth and capture the long-term upside. Let's continue with Europe. Europe delivered accelerating growth driven by strong operational performance of Glovo and we expect further momentum in the second half. On a like-for-like basis, GMV grew 8% year-over-year to €2.6 billion, matched by an equally robust 8% growth in segment revenue to €662 million. Subscriber adoption gained steady momentum throughout the quarter and QuickCommerce delivered healthy performance, delivering 19% growth year over year. The strong growth of QuickCommerce volume is driven by further expansion of top grocery partners and increased growth in non-grocery shops. Our ad-tech business accelerated with 32% year-over-year in Q2, unlocking a powerful long-term runway for sustained margin expansion and compounding profitability. This top-line strength is flowing through to our bottom line. Europe's adjusted EBITDA to GMB margin improved by 70 basis points year-over-year, demonstrating better operational efficiency across the business. Now turning our performance to our performance in Americas. Americas accelerated sharply. GMV grew 29% year-over-year on a like-for-like basis to €1.349 billion, a meaningful step up from 18% growth in Q1. Segment revenue also accelerated from 21% in Q1 to 31% in Q2, reaching €325 million. Subscriber adoption was a main driver, with subscribers now accounting for a substantial 40% of total GMV, alongside the ongoing rollout of our multi-vertical offerings. QuickCommerce continues to scale, delivering outstanding 57% year-over-year growth. This momentum is powered by strategic footprint expansion and key enhancements to the customer experience. Simultaneously, our ad tech expansion continues to supercharge revenue growth, unlocking high-value monetization opportunities and driving an increasingly strong high-margin contribution to our financial performance. Profitability was particularly strong, with adjusted EBITDA surging 52% year-over-year to €70.3 million in H1, underpinned by strong operating leverage and sustained margin expansion across the business. Now on to integrated verticals. Integrated Verticals accelerated further in Q2, with GMV up 32% year-over-year on a like-for-like basis to €1.092 billion and segment revenue up 36% to €1.039 billion. The strong performance was broad-based and driven by operational execution. At the same time, ad tech revenue is expanding rapidly and becoming a significant driver of revenue growth. Our solutions combine greater relevance and automated optimization to have advertisers allocate budgets and optimize spend more effectively across a full funnel alongside highly engaging and innovative display formats such as shoppable banners and video ads. Our strategic growth investments to enhance our supermarket-like value proposition and customer experience through affordability, reliability and speed and to expand our demand footprint remain on track. The majority of the planned store openings are scheduled to launch and drive further momentum in the second half of the year. Our adjusted EBITDA to GMV margin was a modest 20 basis points lower year over year in the first half, reflecting deliberate investments engineered to elevate the customer experience and capture long-term leadership. Let's now have a closer look at our key profitability metrics for the first half. Even while executing our previously announced strategic growth investments across MENA, Asia and QuickCommerce, we successfully expanded adjusted EBITDA by 4% to €427 million in the first half, underscoring the underlying profitability of our platform. Below that line, total management adjustments amounted to €194 million. This was primarily driven by €173 million related to competition antitrust-related risks, particularly in South Korea. At the same time, reorganization measures dropped sharply to just €11 million, down from €42 million, while costs related to corporate transactions halved to only €10 million. Share-based compensation increased by 25% to €157 million, reflecting a different vesting structure and lower expense reversals under the new long-term incentive program. Taking these adjustments into account, EBITDA came in at €79 million. DNA was fairly stable at €239 million, bringing EBIT to a negative €160 million. The financial result improved by 52% to negative €130 million, driven by fair value gains from FX, partly offset by higher interest expense on the new term loan. Taxes for the period amounted to €69 million. In total, this brings our net result to negative €359 million, remaining broadly stable year over year and fully reflecting our disciplined investment strategy. Let's now review how free cash flow has evolved. Operating cash flow increased by 139 million year-over-year or 351 million excluding the breakup fee for the Taiwan sale that we received in H1 2025. The increased operating cash flow is largely explained by working capital inflows in addition to the adjusted EBITDA increase. Looking at the individual components, I would like to remind you that in H1 2025, we reclassified the 329 million provision to a current liability, which was neutral to operating cash flow, but led to an increase in working capital and a decrease in provisions. The effect on operating cash flow in H1 was neutral, with a payout happening in July. Performance in H1 2025 was also affected by calendar timing. June 2025 coincided with extended weekend closures and major public holidays at month-end across several markets, which temporarily delayed customer payments and outstanding receivables over the closing period. Because June 2026 ended on standard weekdays with no holiday disruptions, we collected those funds immediately. This drove a favorable reduction in receivables and generated a significant positive working capital cash inflow for 2026 compared to 2025. Looking ahead to H2, we foresee a reversal of this trend, ending the year with a small cash inflow from working capital changes. CapEx was €138 million, €16 million lower than last year, and lease payments were €92 million, reflecting the aforementioned investments in D-Mart expansion. All in all, this gives us a free cash flow before extraordinary items of €348 million. This is a significant increase year over year, but I would flag three things for the second half. The working capital benefit reverses in H2. CAPEX and lease payments for the DMART rollout step up and we expect higher tax payments compared to H1. We therefore expect free cash flow in H2 to be negative. Pull-in lines are updated and increased FCF guidance for the full year. Let's have a look at the liquidity development. We entered the year with a strong cash position of €2.11 billion and closed the first half standing at €2.77 billion. This was anchored by robust operational execution, delivering €0.43 billion in adjusted EBITDA alongside €0.18 billion working capital inflow against disciplined outflows for capex, leasing, taxes and net interest. Amplified by €0.52 billion in net proceeds from our refinancing transactions, we expanded our total cash to €2.77 billion, providing us with a substantial liquidity cushion and ample financial flexibility. To highlight three key takeaways from these results. First, expanding cash generation capacity. Our increasing profitability positions our business well for future cash generation. Second, working capital dynamics. CH1 working capital benefit was driven by favorable timing effects across payment service providers and is expected to reverse in the second half. Third, targeted growth investments. CapEx and Demarts was lower than projected due to geopolitical headwinds in Q1. However, our investment plans remain fully intact and will shift into the second half of the year. Let's now turn to our guidance. Given the strong first half with growth accelerating across many regions and better than expected profitability, we are raising all four elements of our guidance for the full year 2026. On GMV, we now expect growth of 9-11% year-over-year on a like-for-like basis, up from 8-10%. On revenue, we now expect growth of 17-19% on a like-for-like basis, up from 14-16%. For adjusted EBITDA, we now expect 960 million to 1 billion euro compared with the 910 to 960 million euro range previously. And on free cash flow before extraordinary items, we now expect more than 250 million euro up from more than 200 million euro. That's it from my side. We're now looking forward to taking your questions. Operator, please go ahead.

Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin our Q&A session. For those of you who have joined the Zoom via webinar, if you have a question, we ask that you please use the raised hand function at the bottom of your Zoom screen. Once called upon, please unmute your audio and ask your question. If you have dialed in, please press star nine to enter the queue and star six to unmute once called upon. Our first question today comes from Andrew Ross at Barclays Capital. Andrew, you may now unmute your line and ask your question. Thank you.

Great, good afternoon all. Thank you for taking my question. My one's, I guess, a big picture one on the outcome of the strategic review. Accepting that the Joint Reason Statement isn't yet published, could you give us some high-level color on the puts and takes for when into recommending the 4150 offer from Uber in the context of the strategic review? It would be good to get an insight in terms of other alternatives for you had to drive value, the timing of the recommendation, and also please can you touch on how the supervisory board assessed the antitrust risk of the transaction and what gave you confidence the transaction will complete? Thank you.

Hey there, Andrew. So I'll be a little bit limited in my answer and we're coming up with the recent statement and we want to make sure that all information is properly reflected there. But in terms of strategic review, as you know, we looked at every opportunity, every alternative. We did not let any stone being untouched to see what is the best way to In summary, we came to this being the best conclusion. In terms of antitrust, we have spent a lot of time on the structure and together with many Antitrust Lawyers and a lot of other insights. We feel very comfortable with the structure and we feel very comfortable that it will be approved. But yeah, it can take time. I don't know if you said it would be H2 next year. So yes, it can take time, but we feel very confident that it's going to go through. Thank you. Thanks.

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Thanks a lot. Yeah, if I compare, let's say, the speed expectations to the print, Asia is probably the sole operation that is somewhat behind what we have expected. Can you give us some insight on how you see the situation in South Korea developing? What are your biggest pushbacks currently? Is it competition? Is it saturation of the market? Is it pricing or is regulation holding you back? Any insights would be helpful.

Sure. Yeah, we've seen ongoing acceleration in growth in both Korea and in APAC region and we are very happy with outcome. I think the potential downside is that the FX has been very against us until beginning of July or mid-July. Yeah, Korean Won has been weak. So when we look at the FX reported currency, of course, growth looks low. If you look on a like for like basis, then I think we are very happy both with order growth and GMV growth. And as I said, Korean Won has strengthened over the last month or month and a half. So that, yeah, that goes pretty well for reported currency also doing well going forward. But we are very happy. And of course, the market is more mature probably than many other markets. Of course, there is a little bit lower growth in a market where we have so many users already using our service and we can only increase by increasing frequency. I think overall, we have been slightly positive in terms of category share over the last 12 months. There's always a little bit up and down, but overall, there's been a Next up, we have another question from Andrew Ross at Barclays Capital. Andrew, you can unmute your line and ask your question.

Sorry, I didn't expect to come back quite so quickly. Okay. Well, my second one is to ask about the assets that are being transferred or sold to SSW as part of the offer structure. Can you help us understand how that's going to work from a technology standpoint? Obviously, there are kind of different brands involved to be entities that are going, but as I understand it, sit on different tech stacks. So just help us understand how that's going to work and how you kind of guarantee that the operations of those assets are unaffected. And if you could touch on kind of the investment commitments that go into those assets, you know, as part of the structure. Thanks.

Yeah. I want to make sure that I'm not sharing much beyond what has been disclosed. So I'm a little bit cautious here when I share. But in general, there are clear transition service agreements. There are certain IP rights. There is a right to buy certain technology. So we have done everything to making sure that this is going to be a very strong entity. So we think that we have set them up for being a very strong comparator and they will be operating Thank you. As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question today, please use the raised hand feature.

And if you have dialed in, please press star nine. I'll wait a moment to allow the questions to enter the queue. Okay, so this concludes today's Q&A session. I'll hand back to Niklas Oestberg for closing remarks.

Thank you very much. We have never had that few questions. I take it as a sign. Anyways, thank you, everyone, for listening in. Two takeaways here. First, the business is performing strongly. Growth continues to accelerate. We have raised our guidance on all four metrics. The everyday app is showing in the numbers, most clearly in the quick commercial growth and specifically our DMART network. The investments are really making Yeah, we're delivering on those. Secondly, our focus on executing is unchanged. The teams are working on the same priority we set out at the beginning of the year, strengthening our leadership, expanding our quick commerce offering and implementing AI-driven product improvements. And I expect the momentum to continue throughout the second half. So I guess that concludes the Q2 trading update. Again, thank you for your support and I wish you a successful rest of the day.

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