• Source: Wolt

Wolt Enterprises Oy, trading as Wolt, is a Finnish food delivery company known for its delivery platform for food and merchandise. On Wolt's apps (iOS and Android) or website, customers can order food and household goods from the platform's restaurant and merchant partners, and either pick up their order or have it delivered by the platform's courier partners. Wolt also runs its own chain of grocery stores called Wolt Market. Wolt is headquartered in Helsinki.
In May 2022, Wolt was acquired by the American food delivery company DoorDash. DoorDash operates in 29 countries today, 25 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.




History


Wolt was founded in 2014 by 6 founders, including Miki Kuusi, the former CEO of Slush and CEO of Wolt. Kuusi has been responsible for DoorDash's business outside the US since May 2022, when DoorDash acquired Wolt.

As of May 2023, Wolt operates in 25 countries and over 300 cities, including Helsinki, Tokyo, and Berlin. Wolt has over 70,000 merchant partners, 150,000 courier partners and 20 million registered customers. Wolt has over 7,000 employees across its offices in 25 countries.
In November 2021, it was announced that Wolt was being merged into DoorDash through an exchange of shares, giving Wolt shareholders a minority of shares in DoorDash for a deal worth US $8.1 billion. On 31 May 2022, the acquisition was completed.
Before the DoorDash acquisition, Wolt raised $856M in funding from investors including ICONIQ Capital, Highland Europe, 83North, EQT Ventures, Tiger Global, DST Global, Prosus, KKR, Coatue, Inventure, Lifeline Ventures, Supercell founder & CEO Ilkka Paananen and Nokia Chairman Risto Siilasmaa, among others.
Wolt was ranked second in the 2020 edition of the FT:1000 Europe's Fastest Growing Companies 2020 published by the Financial Times.




Timeline


2014: Wolt was founded in Helsinki, Finland.
2015: Wolt first launched in Helsinki as pick-up only.
2016: Wolt added delivery to the platform and expanded to Sweden and Estonia. Wolt did some experimenting with self-driving delivery robots in Tallinn in cooperation with Starship Technologies.
2017: Wolt launched in Denmark, Latvia and Lithuania.
2018: Wolt launched in Croatia, Czech Republic, Norway, Hungary, Georgia, Israel and Poland.
2019: Wolt launched in Serbia, Greece, Azerbaijan, Slovakia, Slovenia and Kazakhstan.
2020: Wolt launched in Japan, Cyprus, Malta and Germany. Wolt’s own chain of grocery stores, Wolt Market, was launched in Helsinki.
2022: The transaction closed and Wolt was acquired by DoorDash.
2023: Wolt launched in Austria and Iceland.
2024: Wolt launched in Luxembourg and in Albania.
2024: Wolt announced its upcoming launch in North Macedonia.




Drivers


Wolt delivery drivers do not work for the company (except in Germany and Denmark) but are self-employed and can decide when, where and how much they work. As self-employed, couriers must pay all the incidental costs of their work, such as pension contributions, social security and tooling costs, out of the salary they receive. Their pension and sickness cover in Finland is typically provided through the YEL insurance (Entrepreneur's Pension Insurance), possible after 4 months, and obligatory by Finnish law after 6 months, if yearly YEL income is at least EUR 8,575.45. For example, when using a car, petrol, insurance and other costs are borne by the entrepreneur. As self-employed persons, couriers do not receive paid holidays. According to Wolt, about a third of the couriers are full-time. About a quarter are students. There is a significant proportion of immigrants in Helsinki, for example.




Critical aspects


The German Hotel and Restaurant Association Dehoga recommends that restaurants in Germany should not participate in delivery services which, like Wolt, "intervene in the restaurants' own pricing policy" by "taking a provision of 30%". A self-organized delivery, Dehoga says, would be a better option if possible. They also see it as dangerous that in the long run, through gaining all delivery data, these services may build up competing kitchens, serving the most-wanted dishes and leaving the restaurants empty-handed, which some services already do.




References






External links


Official website
• Source: WOLT

WOLT (103.3 FM "The New 103.3") is a commercial radio station in Indianapolis, Indiana. It broadcasts a classic alternative radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WOLT carries the nationally syndicated "Woody Show" in morning drive time from co-owned KYSR Los Angeles. The studios are at 6161 Fall Creek Road on the northeast side of Indianapolis.
WOLT has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 18,000 watts. The transmitter and tower are on Township Drive near West 79th Street. WOLT is licensed to broadcast using HD Radio technology. The HD2 digital subchannel airs a business news format branded as "Business News 97.5" (which feeds FM translator W248AW at 97.5 MHz).




History






= WGEE (1964–1972)

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On May 15, 1964 (1964-05-15), the station signed on as WGEE-FM. It was the FM counterpart to WGEE (1590 AM, now WNTS). The two stations simulcasted a country music format. Because the AM station was a daytimer, required to go off the air at sunset, WGEE-FM continued the programming into the night. Several years later, WGEE-AM-FM switched to a Top 40 format.




= Easy listening (1972–1989)

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WGEE-FM was sold to Mid America Radio in 1972; upon the ownership change, it became WXTZ, broadcasting a beautiful music format. (The call sign represented the word "Ecstasy.") WXTZ played quarter hour sweeps of soft, instrumental cover versions of popular adult songs, as well as Broadway and Hollywood show tunes. WXTZ was one of the top stations in Indianapolis in the 1970s and early 1980s, but by the late 1980s, the audience for easy listening music was beginning to age, while most advertisers sought younger to middle aged listeners. The station added more soft vocals and reduced the instrumentals to appeal to younger music fans.




= Soft adult contemporary (1989–1991)

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On November 2, 1989, the station completed its transition to a soft adult contemporary format as "Magic 103.3." The call letters were changed to WMJC to represent the word "Magic."




= Classic rock (1991–1992)

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Just prior to a purchase by Broadcast Alchemy, a company that formed part of what is now Clear Channel Communications, the station became WFXF-FM on August 17, 1990. "The Fox" played classic rock to compete with highly rated WFBQ. Following the sale, however, the two classic rock outlets became sister stations.




= Active rock/Alternative (1992–present)

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The station flipped to an active rock format as WRZX "Solid Rock X-103" on August 21, 1992. In late 1993, WRZX shifted to alternative and rebranded as "X-103 Indy's New Rock Alternative." On June 12, 2014, WRZX rebranded as "Alt 103-3." On June 20, the call letters changed to WOLT. (The WRZX call letters now reside on a sister station in Newnan, Georgia.)
WOLT's current lineup has "The Woody Show" from KYSR Los Angeles in morning drive time, Theresa in middays, Ben in afternoon drive and Mike Jones evenings. Outside of afternoons, all DJs shifts are syndicated from out of state.
At 12:01 a.m. on August 25, 2022, after playing "My Ex's Best Friend" by Machine Gun Kelly featuring Blackbear, WOLT shifted to a "classic" alternative rock format, with the playlist now focusing on classic alternative music from between the 1980s and mid-2000s, rebranding as "Indy 103.3"; the first song as "Indy" was "American Idiot" by Green Day. No changes in personnel or programming were made otherwise.




HD Radio


WOLT airs a simulcast of mainstream urban sister station WZRL on its HD2 subchannel.
On August 15, 2019, WOLT launched a Top 40/CHR format on its HD3 subchannel, branded as "97.5 Kiss FM." The subchannel feeds FM translator W248AW at 97.5 FM in Indianapolis.
On June 1, 2020, WOLT-HD3 and W248AW changed to business and financial news and information, branded as "Business News 97.5". It carries mostly programming from Bloomberg Radio.




Events


WOLT currently presents two major station-sponsored concerts each year: its annual "Birthday Show" is held in the summertime, and "The Night ALT 103-3 Stole Christmas" is held in late November and early December.
Previous Birthday Shows featured The Killers, Kings of Leon, Foster the People, Cage the Elephant, Young the Giant, 311, Dirty Heads, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Catfish & The Bottlemen, Sir Sly and more.




References






External links


WOLT website

Facility details for Facility ID 59589 (WOLT) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
WOLT in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
Facility details for Facility ID 140551 (W248AW) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
W248AW at FCCdata.org
FCC History Cards for WOLT

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