“Uber stops expanding its food delivery service in Europe as it pursues a deal with Delivery Hero,” writes FT

The Financial Times reported on Sunday that Uber has put most of its plans to expand food delivery in Europe on hold, just months after announcing them. The delay is because the ride-sharing company is still trying to buy Delivery Hero.

The report said that Uber no longer plans to start food delivery in five of the seven countries it had planned to grow into this year. These countries include Austria, Norway, and Greece. The other two countries were not named.

Late last year, Uber said it was going to bring its food delivery service to seven more European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the Czech Republic, Greece, and Romania.

The company thought that the change would bring in an extra $1 billion in cash bookings over the next three years.

The company based in San Francisco is still trying to buy Delivery Hero, though, according to the FT report.

There was an offer of €33 per share ($37.74) from Uber in May, and Reuters said that the U.S. company had increased its stake in the German food delivery company from 25% to nearly 37% by buying a stake from Aspex Management.

Reuters could not verify the FT story. Uber and Delivery Hero did not answer right away when asked for comments.

Uber told the FT that it had decided to stop growing after the “giant success” of its launches in Finland and Denmark. Instead, it would “focus on continuing the momentum” in its current countries.