Nyota Minerals' Big Dish expands into China

Nyota Minerals, an AIM listed exploration and development of resource projects, has provided an update on its potential acquisition of online reservation platform BigDish Ventures.

BigDish will formally launch in Hong Kong in February 2017, representing its first expansion from the Philippines. The operation in the Chinese city will be led by Frederic Honore-Spinler, who previously worked for Chope, Asia’s largest restaurant reservation platform and Rocket Internet/Foodpanda, the world’s largest food delivery business.

Chief executive of BigDish Joost Boer said: “BigDish is delighted to be able to expand into Hong Kong which has a thriving food scene. The Hong Kong launch also coincides with the rollout of a multi-language capability for the BigDish platform, which will assist in the growth of the business in Asia.”

The share price fell 3% to 0.05p at 1036 GMT on Thursday.