Thursday, July 23, 2020

Bird Loses Paris

Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter company Bird has failed to obtain a contract to deploy its scooters in Paris, in what is a high profile loss for Bird. According to Paris, it selected Lime, Tier, and Dott as the scooter companies for the city, which will result in deployment of 15,000 scooters in total through the city. The failure to win a contract with Paris comes despite a big push by Bird to set up shop in the city, where it had planned to hire "thousands" at a new European hub. It's unclear on the reasons why Bird was not included among the companies selected, nor what Bird plans to do now with its staff and existing scooters in the city.

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