29 Facts About Stagecoach Group

Stagecoach Group is a transport group based in Perth, Scotland.

Stagecoach Group consolidated its operations during the 1990s by purchasing ex NBC and SBG bus companies that had been purchased via management buyouts and employee-owned corporations when privatised.

Stagecoach Group left the long-distance express coach market in 1988 when it sold its operations to National Express.

In 1997, Stagecoach Group won the franchise to operate the Sheffield Supertram system, from the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, who own the system.

Stagecoach Group bought the remaining 27 years of a 30-year franchise, which expires in 2024, and run the operation under the Stagecoach Group Supertram brand, having responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the tram system.

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When Stagecoach Group took over the system, it was struggling, both financially and in terms of attracting passengers, but it is an extremely popular and successful operation.

On 21 November 2005, Stagecoach Group announced the sale of its New Zealand operations to Infratil.

In September 2005, following competition with its Megabus coach operation, Stagecoach Group launched a joint venture with Scottish Citylink coaches.

In July 2007, Stagecoach Group commenced operating the Manchester Metrolink tram network.

In January 2009, Stagecoach Group bought Preston Bus, a former rival in the Lancashire area.

In November 2009 the Competition Commission ordered Stagecoach Group to sell Preston Bus after it had adversely affected competition in the area.

In October 2010, Stagecoach Group expanded further by re-acquiring East London and Selkent, Stagecoach Group's former London bus operations.

In July 2007, Stagecoach Group took over the operation of Manchester Metrolink on a 10-year fixed-term management contract, beating competition from Keolis, Serco and Transdev, to make it the biggest tram operator in the UK.

Virgin Rail Stagecoach Group operated the CrossCountry franchise as Virgin CrossCountry from January 1997 until November 2007 when it passed to Arriva.

In 1999, Stagecoach Group purchased the school bus operations of Sunbus in the Cairns, Ipswich and Sunshine Coast regions of Queensland.

In 1994, Stagecoach Group created a bus-operating subsidiary in Hong Kong which operated residential bus services.

In November 1991, Stagecoach Group Holdings, bought United Transport's shareholding in Kenya Bus Services.

Stagecoach New Zealand was a wholly owned part of the Stagecoach Group, which provided bus services in Auckland, Wellington and the Hutt Valley and nine ferry routes in Auckland.

Stagecoach Group NZ started operations when the firm acquired Wellington City Transport, including the Hutt Valley suburban bus operations of the New Zealand Railways Road Services, branded CityLine, in the 1990s.

Stagecoach Group carried out bus operations in the northeastern and midwestern United States and in eastern Canada.

In December 2018, Stagecoach Group announced it had agreed to sell all of its North American operations to Variant Equity Advisors with the deal concluded in April 2019.

Stagecoach Group Portugal had its origins in the reprivatisation of Portuguese bus and coach operation, which had been nationalised after the 1974 Revolution.

In October 1996, during Stagecoach Group's International buying spree, it made its most important international acquisition at the time, buying Swebus AB, the bus-company arm of the Swedish State Railways, for 1.

Stagecoach Group operate a number of so-called "no-frills" services across the United Kingdom and the United States.

The ruling was criticised by Stagecoach Group as leaving vital services in limbo and jeopardising Scotland's intercity coach network, making it unable to compete effectively with rail and private car journeys.

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In 2000, Stagecoach Group Manchester was found to have been employing bus inspectors to usher passengers away from competitor's services.

In 2005 alleged aggressive behaviour by Stagecoach Group drivers, seeking to compete with Scotbus, resulted in an arson fire at a Stagecoach Group East Scotland garage.

In November 2009 the Competition Commission ordered Stagecoach Group to sell Preston Bus after it had adversely affected competition in the area.

Stagecoach Group has indirectly attracted criticism through controversial statements and actions made by its chairman and co-founder, Brian Souter, regarding certain public statements and his funding of a campaign to block the repeal of the Section 28 law.