FirstGroup plc is a UK based international transport company with revenues of over £5billion a year. We employ over 135,000 staff throughout the UK and North America and move more than 2.5 billion passengers a year.
We are Britain's largest bus operator running more than one in five of all local bus services. A fleet of nearly 9,000 buses carries some 2.9million passengers a day in more than 40 major towns and cities.
We operate passenger and freight services in the UK. Our passenger operations include regional, intercity and commuter services - First Great Western, First ScotRail, First Capital Connect, First TransPennine Express and Hull Trains. First operates the Croydon Tramlink network carrying approximately 24 million passengers a year on behalf of Transport for London.
In North America the Group has four operating divisions: yellow school buses (First Student), transit contracting and management services (First Transit), vehicle maintenance and ancillary services (First Services) as well as Greyhound provider of scheduled inter-city bus transportation services.
We are the leader in safe, innovative, reliable, sustainable transport services - global in scale and local in approach.
Vital statistics
FirstGroup plc will have revenues of over £5billion a year ($10billion)
FirstGroup will have 135,000 employees worldwide
More than 98,000 of these will be in North America
The new First Student will:
- Operate in 39 US states and 8 Canadian provinces
- Operate 62,000 buses
- Operate 721 locations
- Have 68,900 employees
- Transport 2.9 million students to and from school every day
First Student has grown from:
- 1999: 9,500 buses
- 2004: 22,000 buses
- 2007: 62,000 buses
First Student will therefore operate the fifth largest non-car fleet in North America (after Penske, Ryder, UPS and FedEx)
The new First Transit will:
- Operate in 45 US states
- Operate 6,700 buses
- Operate 235 locations
- Have 13,000 employees
The new Transit organization will cover more than 260 million annual fleet miles
First Services will:
- Operate in 31 states, plus Canada and five international locations
- Operate in 146 locations
- Maintain over 51,000 vehicles
- Have 3,877 employees
Greyhound will:
- Operate across the entire North American continent
- Operate 2,350 buses
- Serve 3,100 locations
- Have over 11,400 employees
Greyhound carries 24 million passengers every year, covering 7.1 billion passenger miles.