Meal kit provider Marley Spoon (ASX: MMM) is staying busy as it tries to grow its dinner delivery service on three continents.

The company’s 4C filing for the three months to March showed quarterly net revenue of 29.5 million euros.

That’s a gain of 56 per cent from the prior year comparative period. After increasing by 20 per cent in Q4 2018, q/q revenue growth in the March quarter slowed to three per cent.

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However, Marley Spoon “expects this to accelerate again in Q2 thanks to the increasing acquisition momentum throughout the first quarter”.

“This is already reflected in the 10% increase in active customers to around 190,000 as of 31 March 2019,” the company said.

Building blocks

Marley Spoon’s latest market update showed plenty of activity in Q1, as the company works to get back in investors’ good books.

After listing last July at $1.20, shares in MMM declined rapidly from around $1.00 in late-October to a low of 34 cents in early January.

Its stock price was unchanged at 38 cents following this morning’s update.

The company says it’s undertaken a number of infrastructure initiatives, including the consolidation of its manufacturing base.

Last October, MMM relocated merged its US operations into a larger facility based in Texas, which it says will provide increased purchasing power from economies of scale.

It also closed down its German facility and transferred the remaining output to the Netherlands, and set up a global services hub in Portugal.

As a result, investment cash outflows rose to 3 million euros in Q1, but the company forecasts lower capital costs for the rest of the year.

CEO Fabian Seigel said the March quarter was all about “successfully delivering important improvements to the Marley Spoon infrastructure”.

“While the team was delivering on all these structural improvements, we simultaneously made strong progress on the contribution margin in our US business,” he said.

The company has a bit of extra capital to play with, after completing a convertible bond issue for 12 million euros in Q1 to US-based VC fund Union Square Ventures.

Siegel said the operational improvements will allow the company to “continue on our trajectory towards operating EBITDA break-even by 2020”.
 

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