Go ahead
| Go Ahead Group plc.
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| legal form | Public Limited Company |
| ISIN | GB0003753778 |
| founding | 1987 |
| Seat |
Newcastle upon Tyne , UK
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| management | David Brown ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 26,160 |
| sales | 3.215 billion pounds (3.59 billion euros ) |
| Branch | Traffic Company |
| Website | www.go-ahead.com |
| As of June 27, 2015 | |
Go-Ahead is a British transport company founded in 1987 that operates buses and trains . The focus of his area of operation is in the south east of England . The Go Ahead Group is one hundred percent owner of eight bus companies which, according to their own information, transport around 1.7 million passengers daily with a fleet of 3800 buses and make up the main operating profit. The UK rail sector is made up of the rail transport company Govia , 65% owned by Go-Ahead and 35% owned by the French company Keolis . Go-Ahead is also active in the US school bus transport market.
The ground handling service provider operated under the name Aviance UK was mainly transferred to Servisair in 2010 . Also in 2010, Go-Ahead sold the parking space manager Meteor.
history
Go-Ahead was created in 1987 as part of the privatization of urban bus networks and the beginning of the dissolution of the national bus company National Bus Company (NBC). In Gateshead based original Northern General Transport Company was formed here after a management buy-out to Go Ahead Northern . In 1993, the company created a foothold in the south of the UK with the takeover of Brighton & Hove . The following year, Go-Ahead also acquired the Oxford Bus Company and entered the London bus business with the takeover of London Central . Also in 1994 the company went public under the new name The Go-Ahead Group. The acquisition of London General in 1996 greatly expanded Go-Ahead's involvement in the London transport network.
The deregulation of British rail transport led Go-Aheads to enter the railway market in 1996, including from 1997 together with the then VIA-GTI as operator of the Thameslink line until 2006. Go-Ahead opened up another new branch of industry in 1998 with the takeover of the London-based company Airport service provider Gatwick Handling. In 1999, Metrobus, a bus company operating in London and nearby counties, joined the group.
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In 2000 the concession of Connex South Central was transferred to Govia, who operated the network under the name South Central , later Southern. In 2002, Go-Ahead acquired the parking space manager Meteor, which remained part of the company until 2010. With the acquisition of Wilts & Dorset in 2003, Go-Ahead increased its market share in the south. Wilts & Dorset was later formed together with Southern Vectis and the Solent Blue Line , active on the Isle of Wight and taken over in 2005, to form Go South Coast .
In April 2006, Govia acquired the Southeastern franchise. The Birmingham Coach Company and Probus Management bus companies , which were acquired by Go-Ahead in 2005 and 2006 , became the Birmingham- based subcontractor Go West Midlands , which was sold after losses in 2008. Another London bus company was added in 2006 with Dockland Buses . In 2007, Govia acquired the West Midlands Francise, which it operates through the London Midland , and acquired the Blue Triangle bus company . The London bus companies operate under the name Go-Ahead London.
In 2009, Go-Ahead bought city- owned Plymouth Citybus and London-based East Thames Buses , which was owned by Transport for London . In the same year, the company entered into a joint venture with the Cook-Illinois Corporation from Chicago to enter the American school bus market. The year 2010 saw the takeover of Norfolkers Konectbus , the following year Thames Travel from Oxfordshire was taken over.
At the end of 2015, Go-Ahead won a tender to operate 25 bus routes in Loyang in Pasir Ris, Singapore for five years from September 2016.
In 2016, the subsidiary Go-Ahead Verkehrsgesellschaft Deutschland, founded in Berlin in January 2014, won the tender for the operation of two local rail transport subnetworks of the NVBW and will be there from around 2019/2020 with 45 Stadler Flirt from Stuttgart to Crailsheim, Ulm, Aalen, Karlsruhe and drive to Würzburg.
Divisions
Bus transport
- Go Ahead London ( London )
- Go North East ( Tyne and Wear , County Durham , Northumberland , Teesside )
- Go South Coast ( Dorset , Wiltshire , Hampshire , Isle of Wight , Southampton )
- Metrobus ( London , Kent , Surrey , East Sussex , West Sussex )
- Brighton & Hove ( Brighton , Hove , Eastbourne , Tunbridge Wells , Steyning )
- Oxford Bus Company ( Oxford , from Oxford to London, Heathrow and Gatwick )
- Plymouth Citybus ( Plymouth )
- Konectbus ( Norwich , Swaffham , Dereham , Watton , Wymondham )
- Go-Ahead North America ( St. Louis )
railroad
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Go-Ahead Verkehrsgesellschaft Deutschland GmbH (GAVD) based in Berlin
- Go-Ahead Baden-Württemberg GmbH based in Stuttgart
- Go-Ahead Bayern GmbH based in Augsburg
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Railway depot at Essingen station (near Aalen ):
Go-Ahead Facility GmbH
- Govia Limited based in Newcastle upon Tyne , United Kingdom (joint venture with Keolis )
- Govia Thameslink Railway Ltd. (GTR) : Thameslink , Great Northern, Southern and Gatwick Express
- Southeastern is the brand name of London & South Eastern Railway Limited
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our Board ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2015
- ↑ Bloomberg Businessweek: Aviance UK Ltd., Regional Ground Handling Business at 11 Airports in UK. Retrieved June 26, 2011
- ^ Office of Fair Trading: Completed acquisition by Servisair UK Limited of the regional ground handling business of Aviance UK Limited. ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 244 kB) , June 15, 2010
- ↑ a b Reuters: VINCI Announces Acquisition Of 100% Stake In Meteor Parking Company From Go-Ahead Group plc. September 2, 2010, accessed June 26, 2011
- ↑ a b Jay P. Pederson (Ed.): International Directory of Company Histories (Volume 28) . St. James Press, 1999, ISBN 1-55862-387-6 , pp. 155 ff.
- ^ The Times Online: Chris Moyes. September 18, 2006, accessed June 26, 2011
- ↑ a b c d go-ahead.com: History Timeline. ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 26, 2011
- ↑ Mary Webb, Jackie Clarke: Urban Transport Systems 2007-2008 . Jane's Information Group , 2007, ISBN 978-0-7106-2816-9
- ↑ BBC News: Connex loose rail franchise. October 24, 2000, accessed June 26, 2011
- ↑ BBC News: Go-Ahead given for bus takeover. September 15, 2003, accessed June 26, 2011
- ↑ islanbuses.info: About Us. ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 26, 2011
- ↑ go-ahead.com: Go South Coast. ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 26, 2011
- ↑ BBC News: Rail chief to be quizzed on web. February 18, 2007, accessed June 26, 2011
- ↑ busandcoach.com: Go-Ahead aquires Birmingham operation. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. December 6, 2005, accessed June 26, 2011
- ↑ busandcoach.com: Go-Ahead buys again in West Midlands. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. March 2, 2006, accessed June 26, 2011
- ↑ busandcoach.com: Go-Ahead sells West Midlands unit. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. March 11, 2008, accessed June 26, 2011
- ^ Department for Transport: Department for Transport announces winner of West Midlands franchise. ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. June 21, 2007
- ↑ telegraph.co.uk: A round-up of headlines from across the financial sectors, provided by Bloomberg News. June 30, 2007, accessed June 26, 2011
- ↑ go-ahead.com: Go-Ahead London. ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 26, 2011
- ↑ mandadeals.co.uk: Go-Ahead acquires East Thames Buses. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. July 30, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2011
- ↑ BBC News: Council approves bus company sale. November 30, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2011
- ↑ busandcoach.com: Go-Ahead to enter US school bus market. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. November 5, 2009, accessed June 26, 2011
- ↑ Go-Ahead enters Singapore bus market. (No longer available online.) Go Ahead Loyang Pte Ltd (trading as Go-Ahead Singapore), November 23, 2015, archived from the original on June 21, 2016 ; accessed on June 21, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Go-Ahead and Abellio are to be awarded contracts for local rail passenger transport in the three lots of the Stuttgart network. (PDF; 55 KiB) Annex 2: Go-Ahead Verkehrsgesellschaft. Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Baden-Württemberg, November 17, 2015, accessed on May 23, 2016 .
- ^ After the court order: Clear the way for attractive local trains in the Stuttgart networks. Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Baden-Württemberg, April 29, 2016, accessed on May 23, 2016 .
