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FirstGroup

June 2024

  • The launch of the Lumo service between London and Edinburgh in 2021

    Rail firm FirstGroup plans to expand cut-price Lumo services

    Train and bus group applies for more ‘open access’ services as government attempts to increase competition

May 2024

  • Lumo launches its London-Edinburgh service at King’s Cross station in 2021

    Train operator Lumo plans new direct service from Greater Manchester to London

    FirstGroup submits application for alternative route between capital and Rochdale

June 2023

  • A person boarding a TransPennine Express train

    TransPennine Express services ‘worse’ under state-owned OLR

    Operator, which covers trains across north of England and southern Scotland, cancelled more than 90 trains in a day this month

May 2023

  • A TransPennine Express train at Leeds station.

    TransPennine railway: what is the operator of last resort?

    British government’s OLR also took control of LNER, Northern and Southeastern train services

September 2022

  • front of Avanti West Coast train

    Why can’t I book a train? How Avanti West Coast hit the buffers

    A drivers’ strike in October will help mask the service failures of one of Britain’s main train operators

June 2022

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Long-term shareholders must pray Ocado’s latest fundraiser is the last

    Nils Pratley
  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    UK airline industry should pull out of evasive manoeuvres

    Nils Pratley
  • Operations Of FirstGroup Trains At London Paddington Railway Station As Rail Operator Rejects Approach From Apollo<br>Members of Great Western Railway staff talk to a train driver at London Paddington railway station in London, U.K., on Monday, April 16, 2018. British train and bus operator&nbsp;FirstGroup Plc, which operates the Great Western Railway, said it rejected an "opportunistic" takeover proposal that private-equity firm&nbsp;Apollo Management&nbsp;made as the company struggles with under-performing rail routes in the U.K. and competition from discount airlines in the U.S. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    FirstGroup rejects £1.2bn takeover bid from US equity firm

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Threat to bin Twitter deal over bots makes Elon Musk look like a time-waster

    Nils Pratley

May 2022

  • TransPennine Express train.

    UK train operator FirstGroup considering £1.2bn takeover

    Aberdeen-based firm considering approach by US private equity firm I Squared Capital Advisors

October 2021

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Ofgem must show it is awake as energy sector faces winter nightmare

    Nils Pratley
  • The long-established North American intercity coach business will be sold to German operator FlixMobility for $172m (£125m).

    FirstGroup announces £125m sale of its Greyhound bus service in the US

August 2021

  • Star trails over an electricity pylon

    Business leader
    To the family choosing whether to heat or eat, the energy cap isn’t ‘fair’ at all

    The Ofgem cap is set to rise to unaffordable levels for households let down by this government’s energy failures

July 2021

  • GWR train waiting on a platform at Bristol Temple Meads station in Bristol

    FirstGroup chief to step down after pressure from shareholder

  • FirstGroup logo

    FirstGroup’s biggest shareholder calls for resignation of CEO

May 2021

  • Richard Partington

    A trade drop of a quarter is just the start of Brexit ‘teething problems’

    Richard Partington
    Far from minimal disruption, the full impact of leaving the EU may take 15 years to appear

April 2021

  • First Student school buses parked in San Francisco

    FirstGroup sells bulk of US transport business in $4bn deal

    Transport operator’s shares rise 10% as it announces plans to focus on UK bus and rail

September 2020

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Even die-hard fans must be wondering if Tesla stock is moving too fast

    Nils Pratley
    Stock split is merely cosmetic for company whose valuation seems to be controlled by pure psychology

July 2020

  • Paris Hilton and Lil’ Kim at the launch party for Boohoo’s Paris Hilton Collection in 2018.

    Business leader
    Investors are selling Boohoo shares now. They could have intervened far earlier

  • Advertising billboards

    Boohoo must take fashion more seriously after factory scandal

    Phillip Inman
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