{"id":18286,"date":"2021-10-22T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/22\/foodpanda-and-rebel-foods-launch-asias-largest-virtual-brands-partnership\/"},"modified":"2021-10-22T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T02:00:00","slug":"foodpanda-and-rebel-foods-launch-asias-largest-virtual-brands-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/22\/foodpanda-and-rebel-foods-launch-asias-largest-virtual-brands-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"foodpanda and Rebel Foods launch Asia\u2019s largest virtual brands partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>In this new digital-first&#13;<br \/>\nF&amp;B format in Asia, foodpanda will roll out Rebel Foods&#8217; flagship brands&#13;<br \/>\nand new jointly-created offerings in more than 2,000 outlets within Asia&#13;<br \/>\nthrough an initial five-year partnership, starting in six markets <\/li>\n<li>Rebel Foods will extend its&#13;<br \/>\nculinary expertise, efficient SOPs and food tech innovations to F&amp;B outlets&#13;<br \/>\nin Asia through foodpanda, Asia&#8217;s largest food delivery platform outside of&#13;<br \/>\nChina <\/li>\n<li>With a Brands-as-a-Service&#13;<br \/>\n(BaaS) model, the partnership allows foodpanda&#8217;s restaurant partners to easily&#13;<br \/>\nplug-and-play Rebel Foods iconic brands to grow additional revenue streams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a022&#13;<br \/>\nOctober 2021 &#8211;<b> <\/b>foodpanda, Asia&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nlargest food and grocery delivery platform, today announced a long-term,&#13;<br \/>\nmulti-market partnership with Rebel Foods to enable restaurant partners and&#13;<br \/>\ncloud kitchen operators to grow additional revenue streams, at little or no&#13;<br \/>\nstart-up costs. Rebel Foods is the world&#8217;s largest internet restaurant company&#13;<br \/>\nheadquartered in India. The new digital-first F&amp;B format sees foodpanda and&#13;<br \/>\nRebel Foods joining forces for the benefit of local and small players in the&#13;<br \/>\nF&amp;B industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/187922\/foodpanda-Rebel-Foods.jpg#image-187922\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Through this partnership \u2014 for an initial five years \u2014 both&#13;<br \/>\ncompanies will aim to launch more than 10 virtual brands in over 2,000 outlets&#13;<br \/>\nacross the region, making this the largest virtual brand partnership in Asia,&#13;<br \/>\nand the first of its kind in the region at this scale.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the partnership, Rebel Foods brings their culinary&#13;<br \/>\nexpertise, efficient SOPs and iconic ready-to-deploy brands that are easily customisable&#13;<br \/>\nfor local preferences in any region. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, foodpanda enables hundreds of thousands of restaurant&#13;<br \/>\npartners and cloud kitchen operators to plug-and-play virtual brands into their&#13;<br \/>\ncurrent operations to grow additional revenue streams, at little to no start-up&#13;<br \/>\ncosts. Smaller SMEs and restaurant partners on the foodpanda platform can adopt&#13;<br \/>\nnew recipes and utilise their spare capacity to grow additional revenue streams&#13;<br \/>\nwhile creating diversity in their menu offerings. <\/p>\n<p>In the first phase of the partnership, which began in December&#13;<br \/>\n2019, Rebel Foods introduced four brands across six markets \u2014 Singapore,&#13;<br \/>\nMalaysia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines through the&#13;<br \/>\nfoodpanda network. Orders for Rebel Foods&#8217; brands on the foodpanda app on&#13;<br \/>\naverage grew 40% month-on-month in the past six months, with more than 200&#13;<br \/>\noutlets across the six markets signed up to add virtual brands to their&#13;<br \/>\nexisting food and beverage (F&amp;B) offerings. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This foodpanda-Rebel Foods partnership introduces a new digital-first&#13;<br \/>\nF&amp;B format to Asia. foodpanda is always seeking new, innovative ways to&#13;<br \/>\nchange the way F&amp;B businesses operate in a hyper-digitalised economy \u2014 we&#13;<br \/>\nwant to push our ecosystem further into the future,&#8221; said Pedram Assadi, COO,&#13;<br \/>\nfoodpanda. &#8220;Most importantly, these virtual brands will give our restaurant&#13;<br \/>\npartners, especially SMEs, new opportunities to earn additional revenue.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>Virtual brands: revolutionising the food ecosystem&#13;<br \/>\nfor a digital-first future <\/b><\/p>\n<p>A virtual brand is an&#13;<br \/>\nonline-only food concept where a brand exists digitally, with no dine-in presence, and offers food that is available for&#13;<br \/>\ndelivery or pick-up from the outlet. Virtual brands can operate from the kitchen of an&#13;<br \/>\nexisting restaurant or through traditional cloud kitchens. <\/p>\n<p>Through this partnership, customers across Asia can enjoy great&#13;<br \/>\nfood options from these virtual brands:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Faasos: <\/b>Rebel Foods&#8217; flagship brand that offers an exciting variety of&#13;<br \/>\nwraps that stand true to its philosophy, &#8216;Surprises under wraps&#8217;. <\/li>\n<li><b>Behrouz Biryani: <\/b>A category leading royal biryani brand that makes&#13;<br \/>\nevery moment special with its choicest spices and premium ingredients. <\/li>\n<li><b>The Biryani Life: <\/b>Offering value biryani options as part of daily&#13;<br \/>\nmeals with consistently elevated flavours.<\/li>\n<li><b>Lunchbox: <\/b>Lunchbox celebrates local food with the motive to evoke a sense of&#13;<br \/>\nfamiliarity and nostalgia with fresh ingredients and homestyle cooking.<\/li>\n<li><b>Honest Bowl: <\/b>A newly jointly-developed localised offering by foodpanda and&#13;<br \/>\nRebel Foods that offers a selection of food bowls with global and local&#13;<br \/>\nflavours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to introducing Rebel Food&#8217;s iconic brands to foodpanda&#13;<br \/>\ncustomers in Asia, both companies have also worked together to co-develop new&#13;<br \/>\nofferings under <b>Honest Bowl<\/b>. The&#13;<br \/>\nHonest Bowl menu was especially created to suit the taste buds of customers in&#13;<br \/>\nAsia, building on Rebel Food&#8217;s culinary expertise and foodpanda&#8217;s insights on&#13;<br \/>\ncustomers&#8217; preferences in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the years, we have built some category leading brands in its&#13;<br \/>\ncurrent markets and a full-stack operating system which integrates culinary&#13;<br \/>\nexpertise, efficient SOPs and technological innovations together. We are glad&#13;<br \/>\nto partner with foodpanda and scale our iconic brands with localized offerings&#13;<br \/>\nacross their network in Asia&#8221;, said Kallol Banerjee, Co-founder, Rebel Foods. <\/p>\n<p><b>Enabling growth in digital deliveries <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Globally, the online food delivery market is worth more than USD&#13;<br \/>\n35 billion annually, according to the <u>ASEAN Post<\/u><u>.<\/u> In its H1 2021 Trading&#13;<br \/>\nUpdate, foodpanda&#8217;s parent company Delivery Hero reported that orders in Asia&#13;<br \/>\ndoubled year-on-year, as GMV for the region grew 175%, surpassing the EUR 10&#13;<br \/>\nbillion mark. foodpanda alone reported more than 70 million orders completed&#13;<br \/>\neach month \u2014 sure signs that food delivery will continue to grow. <\/p>\n<p>Beyond activating virtual brands, foodpanda restaurant partners&#13;<br \/>\nare also able to tap into a variety of digital growth tools to attract new&#13;<br \/>\ncustomers, boost exposure and visibility on the app to drive sales and reward&#13;<br \/>\nloyal customers. This includes new merchant-growth features like <i>pandabox<\/i>, <i>pandaclicks <\/i>and <i>pandapicks <\/i>\u2014&#13;<br \/>\nrestaurant partners can take control of their business growth by easily&#13;<br \/>\nactivating these growth tools via foodpanda&#8217;s self-service platform on the&#13;<br \/>\nmerchant app. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-22\/99974\/foodpanda-and-rebel-foods-launch-asias-largest-virtual-brands-partnership\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this new digital-first&#13; F&amp;B format in Asia, foodpanda will roll out Rebel Foods&#8217; flagship brands&#13; and new jointly-created offerings in more than 2,000 outlets within Asia&#13; through an initial five-year partnership, starting in six markets Rebel Foods will extend its&#13; culinary expertise, efficient SOPs and food tech innovations to F&amp;B outlets&#13; in Asia through &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}