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...The main discontinued operation was the company’s US bus business, including the Greyhound intercity bus operation, whose sale it announced in October 2021....
...I can only assume that our friends at Oracle designed it to deter us from ever claiming a bus ticket....
...Ultimately, though, all culinary roads lead to The Grey, a former Greyhound bus terminal that has been transformed into a dazzling modern dining room with some of the most extraordinary food I’ve tasted...
...It’s a small sum to you, but gives you a direct line in. One caveat. Don’t get too visible yet. The Tories are still in power for a couple of years/months/something indeterminate....
...The divestiture follows the sale of the Aberdeen-based group’s US school bus and transit businesses for £3.3bn to Swedish private equity company EQT in July....
...“If you said ‘I need six taxis, three aeroplanes and a double-decker bus, all in 30 minutes’ he went and did it,” he told the BBC....
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...He’s only five percentage points behind Keir Starmer in the polls on who make the best prime minister as opposed to 20-something on the Labour v Tory one....
...It would contribute £336m to its UK pension schemes, while shareholders are in line for a 30p per share payout, totalling £365m....
...The UK group is yet to sell its struggling US Greyhound intercity coach division....
...As Rob Ford, politics professor at the University of Manchester, puts it: “It’s about getting to ‘us v them’ politics, to stimulate ‘Leave’ partisanship.”...
...“The passenger transport business to Gwadar has done well over the years,” said Muhammad Arif, general manager of the Al Safeer Public Transport Company in Quetta....
...CloudCall, the call centre management software maker, said trading since its last update in March has been in line with expectations....
...The North American business includes First Student, the biggest provider of school transport in the US, and First Transit, a North American bus company, as well as Greyhound....
...I took a Greyhound bus to New York City.” Instead of continuing to live the violence, he made art about it....
...The share price of the Aberdeen-based transport company dropped 18 per cent last Thursday when it cut the value of Greyhound, the US bus company, it put up for sale in May....
...FirstGroup is rationalizing its business and in the process of selling the North American bus businesses (Greyhound + First Student + First Transit)....
...FirstGroup has slashed the value of the troubled US Greyhound bus business it is trying to sell, sending shares in the UK transport group down more than 20 per cent....
...Others join in apprehensive about how the markets seem to be out of line with the news....
...Just as Britain’s rail passengers can count on delays through ‘leaves on the line’ season, FirstGroup shareholders can count on impairments at the bus and train group....
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...This has in the past made the bus company a lead indicator for the insurance sector....
...bus asset impairments....
...The virus, after all, could not be distracted by a lie on a bus. That did not last....
...Cancellations remain in line with historical trends, suggesting consumers have not lost confidence....
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