FirstGroup plc is the world's leading transport operator with annualised revenues of over £6 billion. We employ more than 130,000 staff throughout the UK and North America and transport some 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 8,500 buses carries 3 million passengers a day in more than 40 major towns and cities. We also operate Greyhound UK providing regular services each way between London and Portsmouth and London and Southampton.

We operate passenger and freight services in the UK. Our passenger operations include regional, intercity and commuter services -
First Great Western - (Opens in a new window), First ScotRail - (Opens in a new window), First Capital Connect, First TransPennine Express - (Opens in a new window) and First Hull Trains - (Opens in a new window), a non-franchised open access operator. We also provide freight services through First GBRf - (Opens in a new window) and operate the Croydon Tramlink network on behalf of Transport for London carrying nearly 28 million passengers per annum.

Headquartered in Cincinnati, FirstGroup America Inc. operates across the US and Canada. The Group's contract businesses include Yellow School Buses (First Student), Transit Contracting and Management Services (First Transit), Vehicle Fleet Maintenance and Support Services (First Services). We also operate Greyhound - the only national provider of scheduled transportation services in both the US and Canada.

We are the leader in safe, reliable, innovative and sustainable transport services - global in scale and local in approach.

For further information please visit www.firstgroup.com