HelloFresh

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Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

HelloFresh SE is a Berlin-founded, publicly listed global digital-first food solutions company. It began as a meal-kit provider and now delivers meal kits, ready-to-eat meals, meat and seafood, and premium pet food directly to consumers through a data-driven, vertically coordinated supply chain.

Primary product

Subscription/flexible-order meal kits: pre-portioned ingredients and recipes delivered to customers, with adjacent ready-to-eat meals (Factor), meat/seafood (Good Chop), and pet food (The Pets Table).

Founded

2011

Headquarters

Prinzenstraße 89, 10969 Berlin, Germany

Team size

Approximately 18,000–21,000 globally; the FY2025 company factsheet/careers materials cite approximately 18,000, while reported year-end group headcount is approximately 19,065.

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Consumer services / food technology

Sub-industry

Meal kits, direct-to-consumer food delivery, ready-to-eat meals and digital FMCG

Offices

Berlin

Saarbrücken

New York

Chicago

Boulder

London

Amsterdam

Sydney

Toronto

Auckland

Business model

Direct-to-consumer subscription with flexible ordering, skipping and cancellation

Recurring meal-kit delivery

Ready-to-eat meal delivery

Meat and seafood subscription delivery

Premium pet-food subscription delivery

Data-driven, vertically integrated food supply chain

Funding

Stage

Public company; post-IPO equity and debt financing rather than a current venture round

IPO

Nov 2017

Debt financing

Jun 2017

Series D+

Dec 2016 · Baillie Gifford

Series C

Sep 2013 · HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Phenomen Ventures, Vorwerk

Series B

Dec 2012 · HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Investment AB Kinnevik, Rocket Internet, Vorwerk

People & investors

Leadership

Dominik S. Richter

Group Chief Executive Officer; co-founder

Fabien Simon

Chief Financial Officer

Edward Boyes

Chief Business Officer; co-founder of HelloFresh UK

Assaf Ronen

Chief Operating Officer / Management Board member; technology, operations, marketing and customer service

Founders

Jessica Nilsson

Co-founder

Thomas Griesel

Co-founder; CEO International

Investors

Baillie Gifford

HV Holtzbrinck Ventures

Insight Venture Partners

Investment AB Kinnevik

Work & culture

The company describes an entrepreneurial, ownership-oriented, diverse, dynamic and data-driven culture with a local start-up feel. HelloTech emphasizes autonomous cross-functional product teams, agile delivery, continuous learning, collaboration with Product and Design, and centralized plus local engineering teams.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

Public signals include employee participation/share-based incentive programs and advertised learning and development benefits. Role-specific compensation ranges and a group-wide visa policy were not established from the reviewed public sources.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

HelloFresh/meal-box discounts

Health and well-being programs

Learning and development programs

Internal mobility and relocation opportunities

Talent community, career-growth resources and events

Equal-opportunity and reasonable-accommodation commitments

Product & market

Pricing

Paid per delivered box or ready-to-eat order, generally via recurring subscription with flexible skips/cancellations; prices vary by brand, market, serving count, meal choice, delivery and promotions.

Differentiators

—Personalized menu and recipe selection
—Pre-portioned ingredients reduce planning, shopping and food waste
—Large multi-brand food-solutions portfolio
—Data-driven personalization and demand planning
—Direct control of fulfillment and customer relationship
—Global scale with local-market operations
—Combination of meal kits and ready-to-eat offerings
—Technology-enabled, vertically coordinated supply chain

Technology

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Istio

Kafka

Prometheus

Loki

Alertmanager

GitHub Actions

Helm

Apache Airflow

GraphQL

React Native

Ruby

Java

SQL-based data platforms

Infrastructure as code

Customers

Households and home cooks seeking convenient meal preparation

Health- and convenience-oriented consumers of Factor ready-to-eat meals

Consumers of Good Chop meat and seafood

Premium pet-food customers via The Pets Table

Competitors

Blue Apron

Gousto

Mindful Chef

Marley Spoon

Home Chef

Sunbasket

Factor competitors in ready-to-eat meal delivery

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately €6.7–€7.7 billion annually; reported FY2025 revenue was approximately €6.8 billion and FY2024 revenue €7.661 billion.

Signals & risks

Other

Mar 2024

Reuters reported a second profit warning in five months, a sharp share-price fall, customer losses and investor skepticism about the ready-to-eat expansion and cost-reduction strategy.

Source

Layoff

May 2024

HelloFresh closed its Atlanta-area distribution facility, affecting approximately 727 jobs.

Source

Layoff

Mar 2025

HelloFresh announced closure/consolidation of its Grand Prairie, Texas distribution center, with a WARN notice covering 273 workers; the report also describes Arizona staffing reductions and the prior Atlanta closure.

Source

Shutdown

Dec 2022

HelloFresh withdrew from Japan approximately nine months after launch because management concluded the market lacked a clear path to reasonable unit economics and sustainable returns.

Source

Shutdown

Jan 2025

The 2025 shareholder letter and FY2025 release state that HelloFresh exited Spain and Italy as part of its efficiency and portfolio reset.

Source

Acquisition

Nov 2020

Acquired Factor75 for up to $277 million, including up to $100 million in earn-out and management incentives, expanding into ready-to-eat meals.

Source

Latest news

HelloFresh hit by sales slump as people lose appetite

The Guardian · Mar 2026

Reported on 2025 sales decline, approximately 900 UK job cuts, distribution-site closures, reduced headcount and exits from Spain and Italy.

FY 2025: HelloFresh SE continues to show strong AEBITDA performance while efficiency program progresses meaningfully

HelloFresh Group · Mar 2026

FY2025 revenue was approximately €6.8 billion, AEBITDA €422.8 million, and approximately 80% of the €300 million efficiency program had been implemented; 2026 guidance called for revenue decline of 3%–6% in constant currency.

HelloFresh to close Texas facility, cut nearly 300 jobs

Grocery Dive · Mar 2025

Covered the Grand Prairie closure and 273 affected workers, alongside broader North American distribution and staffing consolidation.

HelloFresh investors struggle to swallow strategy revamp

Reuters · Mar 2024

Covered profit warnings, customer losses, cost pressure and investor concern about HelloFresh’s pivot toward ready-to-eat meals.

HelloFresh Acquires Ready-to-Eat Meal Company Factor75, Inc.

Business Wire / HelloFresh · Nov 2020

Announced the Factor75 acquisition for up to $277 million and the strategic expansion into prepared meals.