Lyft buys Dublin's Lynk & Limerick's Swift taxi services

Lyft buys Dublin's Lynk & Limerick's Swift taxi services

Lyft, through Freenow by Lyft, has announced the acquisition of Dublin's Lynk taxis, and Limerick's Swift taxi service.

Lyft snaps up two Irish taxi giants in major expansion across Dublin and Limerick

Image credit: Lyft Lyft has expanded its presence in Ireland after announcing that Freenow by Lyft has acquired Lynk and Swift, two of the country’s best-established phone-based taxi dispatch businesses. The deal brings Dublin-based Lynk and Limerick’s Swift Taxis into the Freenow by Lyft network, combining traditional telephone bookings with app-based services. The company says the move will increase the number of available drivers, reduce pass…

Freenow owner Lyft acquires taxi dispatchers Lynk and Swift

Freenow parent Lyft has announced the acquisition of both Lynk and Swift, taxi booking and dispatch apps based in Dublin and Limerick, respectively. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Lyft said the transaction is "financially immaterial". Lynk is a longstanding Dublin phone-booking taxi dispatcher and B2B partner to the public sector and hundreds of local businesses. Swift, known locally as 313131, is the top dispatcher in Limerick and a …