Uber celebrates five years in Mexico with an investment of $ 2 million

TOWN OF MEXICO (Expansion) –

Uber celebrates five years of landing in Mexico and to celebrate the luster, the company announced a $ 2 million investment in the country, for the development and the renovation of its centers of support and attention.

During the time that he operated in the country, the company invested $ 500 million in total, confirmed Federico Ranero, CEO of Uber Mexico during the event of celebration in one of its support centers of society in the street of Hamburg, in the Juarez district of Mexico.

In addition to the investment, the company announced that from this Tuesday, a new tip service will be available for drivers who provide transportation service, as well as its delivery format for home delivery, Uber Eats.

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This service will be available, initially, in Mexico City, Puebla, San Luis, Leon and La Paz.

Ranero also said that to date, the company has a total of 250,000 drivers, eight million users and operates in 40 cities nationwide, while Mexico is the fourth global market of the company.

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At the celebration event in Mexico, the presence of Barney Harford, director of global operations of the company, was scheduled a few days ago in a article published by the New York Times for xenophobic comments.

According to the New York Times text, Harford is committed to "repairing" the weaknesses of his behavior after comments he received from the current CEO of the firm Dara Khosrowshahi [19659011] Faced with this situation, Ranero argued that he is happy to know that "the voice is lifted and concrete steps are being taken in these situations," he said in an interview with Expansión.

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"These are things that can be improved – it does not make a bad person, or racist, far from it and as a Harvard study says, sometimes we are not aware of the prejudices we may have in the back of our minds. (…) The Uber employee I am proud to know that concrete actions are taken and measures are taken, "he said.

In 2016, the company was accused of failing to adequately respond to various allegations of sexual harassment within the company; After an investigation by the firm Covington, in charge of former US Attorney, Eric Holder and Tammy Albarran, the departure of the company from its founder and general manager, Travis Kalanick, was announced .

Uber, decided to incorporate the recommendations of the Holder report to transform the company, which warned Ranero that has not been left out and the company continues to work on these changes.

To date, the company is operating in 80 countries and its market value is estimated at $ 72,000 million after the last Softbank investment in the first quarter of 2018.