Saving time in everyday life by saving hours of travel “has improved the quality of life and comfort of Mexicans” and it is just one of the benefits that, as the General Director of the Mobility Division of Uber Eats, Juan Pablo Eiroa, points out, Uber has generated since its implementation in the country ten years ago.
As part of the celebration of the platform’s decade in Mexico, during the “Cities in Motion” forum, Eiroa stressed the importance of the country for Uber, since it was the first in Latin America in which the company began to operate.
It’s very difficult to think what life was like for someone pre-Uber. When you reflect on how it had to move before and how it moves now, it seems like hundreds of years have passed and not ten,” Eiroa commented in an interview with EFE.
In that time, the company has managed to save more than 63 million hours a year for Mexicansaccumulate eight million users month after month and generate three billion trips, according to information from the Public First study on the economic and social impact of the platform.
These data – Eiroa pointed out – demonstrate the good “click” that the Uber product offer made with the needs that Mexico had in terms of mobility.”
Uber Eats Growth
The evolution of the company has also been reflected in Uber Eats, which started in Mexico seven years ago with 500 establishments and, today, It has more than 50,000 and represents “20% of the income of the restaurant industry”as pointed out by the General Director of Uber Eats Mexico, Daniel Colunga.
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This has also had a positive impact on the country’s SMEs since “60% of the restaurants on the platform are small and medium-sized businesses,” Colunga said.
We believe that we have an important responsibility as the engine of the country’s economy,” he added.
In ten years, the online food delivery platform has transformed, reaching more than 70 cities in the country and diversifying its offer: “It now includes supermarkets, pharmacies, pet food stores… practically everything the user needs. , thus becoming that tool that can solve everything for you,” explained the executive of the American platform.
World top five
The “Cities in Motion” forum – in which EFE is a collaborating media – wanted to highlight the importance that Mexico has for Uber.
It is in the top 5 in the world and is one of the markets that has the most growth potential for the company (…) There is a great commitment by the company to invest in Mexico to not only continue growing, but to continue helping cities solve “This great challenge is to achieve more efficient and safe mobility.”
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