 One of Laidlaw's yellow school buses Laidlaw, organized as Laidlaw International, Inc. (and with corporate headquarters in Naperville, Illinois), was a North American corporation involved with contract school bus service, intercity passenger route and charter bus service, and contract paratransit and public transit services in the United States and Canada. Laidlaw school bus Source: Image taken by Dori License: PD This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
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In February 2007, FirstGroup PLC, a bus and rail transport operator in the United Kingdom with subsidiaries in North America, acquired Laidlaw International, Inc. for $35.25 per share or approximately US$3.6 billion including the assumption of US$0.8 billion of debt.[1][2][3] FirstGroup plc completed the acquisition of Laidlaw International on October 1, 2007, and is currently rebranding Laidlaw services under the First umbrella. The deal combined North America’s two largest private school bus operators — Laidlaw Education Services and First Student Inc. — giving them a combined 40% of the school bus contractor market.[4] FirstGroup also announced that the Laidlaw name woud not be kept, but that the Greyhound name would be maintained. FirstGroup plc (LSE: FGP) is a Scottish transport company operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and North America, with headquarters in Aberdeen. ...
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Laidlaw had grown primarily through acquisitions of other companies and contracting of services formerly directly provided by government entities. At the time of its acquisition by FirstGroup plc in 2007, Laidlaw was the largest provider of intercity bus services, contract public transit and paratransit, and contract school bus service in both the United States and Canada. An independent contractor is a person or business which provides goods or services to another entity under terms specified in a contract. ...
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A school bus contractor is a private company or proprietorship which provides school bus service to a school district or non-public school. ...
Laidlaw was the parent company of Laidlaw Transit (which is currently being rebranded First Transit, as of 2007), Laidlaw Education Services (which is also being rebranded as First Student), Greyhound Lines and Greyhound Lines of Canada (which will retain their names), and a number of Gray Line Sightseeing franchises in major North American cities. Greyhound Lines is the largest inter-city common carrier of passengers by bus in North America , serving 2,200 destinations in the United States. ...
Calgary-based Greyhound Canada is a subsidiary of Naperville, Illinois-based Laidlaw International, Incorporated (formerly Laidlaw, Inc. ...
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History
Laidlaw began in 1924 when founder Robert Laidlaw created Laidlaw Transit, a trucking service company in Ontario, Canada. Robert Laidlaw (1885-1971) was a New Zealand business man who founded the Farmers Trading Company, the first department store in New Zealand. ...
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Beginning in 1972, under the leadership of Michael DeGroote, Laidlaw, Inc. began growing through acquisitions of other companies when it acquired a Canadian intercity and charter bus company. In 1979, it acquired a Canadian contract school bus business. In 1978 it entered the U.S. solid waste industry. In 1983, Laidlaw entered the U.S. school bus transportation sector with its acquisition of ARA Transportation, a major contract school bus provider which also owned a Wayne Corporation bus dealership. In 1984, Laidlaw Inc. exited the trucking business, as the company began a consolidating smaller school bus contracting companies in the U.S. and Canada. Michael G. DeGroote, OC (born 1922) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. ...
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In 1988, Laidlaw, Inc. purchased a controlling interest in itself from Canadian Pacific Limited, parent of Canadian Pacific Railway. In a rare divestiture in its school bus contracting sector, in 1990, after losing its major school bus contract in Norfolk, Virginia to a governmental conversion to district-self-operation, Laidlaw sold the rest of its urban-suburban bus line, school bus contracting business, and related assets in the Norfolk area to Virginia Overland Transportation, a long-time operator of public service transportation in Virginia, and a smaller industry consolidator there. An eastbound CPR freight at Stoney Creek Bridge in Rogers Pass. ...
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In the 1990s, Laidlaw continued to acquire hundreds of smaller school bus and public transit contractors in the U.S. and Canada. These also included major competitors, including Mayflower Contract Services in 1995, and National Bus Service in 1996. Around the same time, the company acquired American Medical Response, a nation-wide U.S. ambulance service provider and CareLine, Inc., U.S. ambulance consolidator of smaller ambulance contractors. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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In 1998, a watershed year, Laidlaw Inc. acquired Greyhound Lines U.S. operations, Greyhound Canada, the DAVE Companies (specialists in paratransit) and emergency management companies EmCare and Spectrum Emergency Care. Greyhound Lines is the largest inter-city common carrier of passengers by bus in North America , serving 2,200 destinations in the United States. ...
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Between 1997 and 1999, Laidlaw, Inc. exited the solid waste business after incurring heavy losses through its investments in Safety-Kleen and Greyhound Lines. After almost 20 years of expansion, Laidlaw Inc. filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in June 2001. Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc. ...
Laidlaw International, Inc. listed its common shares on the New York Stock Exchange (Ticker: LI), on February 10, 2004, and emerged from reorganization on June 23, 2003 as the successor to Laidlaw Inc. Canadian Pacific sold its remaining 17% interest in Laidlaw Inc. The company later sold American Medical Respomse, its EMS contract operations to new owners. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ...
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References - ^ [1]Laidlaw International Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by FirstGroup
- ^ http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?post_date=2007-02-08&id=23822
- ^ FirstGroup buys Greyhound buses, bbc.co.uk, 9 February 2007.
- ^ http://www.metro-magazine.com/t_newspick.cfm?id=9067115
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