Wednesday 7th February 2007
Scottish transport group FirstGroup purchased Laidlaw International for $3.6 billion. Although FirstGroup’s interest was primarily the school and transit bus operations of Laidlaw, FirstGroup retained the Greyhound operations and in 2009 exported the brand back to the United Kingdom as Greyhound UK. Today, Greyhound’s 1,229 buses serve over 3,800 destinations in North America, traveling 5.5 billion miles (8.8 billion km) on North America’s roads.