First Keolis
FirstGroup plc is the world’s leading transport company with annualised revenues of over £5 billion a year. We employ approximately 137,000 staff throughout the UK and North America and transport more than 2.5 billion passengers a year.
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UK Bus
The Group is Britain’s largest bus operator running more than one in five of all local bus services. A fleet of nearly 9,000 buses carries approximately 3 million passengers a day in more than 40 major towns and cities.
UK Rail
The Group operates one quarter of the UK passenger rail network, with a balanced portfolio of intercity, commuter and regional services, carrying almost 275m passengers per annum.
The Group is the UK’s largest rail operator with four passenger franchises - First Capital Connect, First Great Western, First ScotRail and First TransPennine Express - and one open access operator, Hull Trains.
The Group operates rail freight services through First GBRf and operates the Croydon Tramlink network on behalf of Transport for London carrying over 26 million passengers a year.
North America
In North America the Group has four operating divisions: Yellow School Buses (First Student), Transit Contracting and Management Services (First Transit), Vehicle Fleet Maintenance and Support Services (First Services) and intercity bus services (Greyhound). Headquartered in Cincinnati, FirstGroup America Inc. operates across the US and Canada.
Europe
In mainland Europe we operate some 150 buses in south west Germany and, from January 2009, we will operate, with our partner DSB, the Øresund rail franchise which includes routes in and between Denmark and Sweden.
Keolis
Keolis is one of Europe's leading providers of passenger transport management services we rank first in the French Market. We provide multimodal integrated solutions with buses, coaches, light and heavy railways.
Keolis designs, implements and operates efficient and competitive public transport networks. We employ over 30,800 employees in eight countries worldwide. We act proactively to satisfy our customers which include PTAs, major airlines, airports and passengers. Our vision for tomorrow is that Keolis becomes the public transport provider of choice. Passengers, their comfort and security are key drivers to our success.
With you, we will move further together.
200 subsidiaries
30,800 employees including more than 22,000 drivers
2.4 billion euros turnover in 2005
www.keolis.com