Arriva
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| Type | Public (LSE: ARI) |
| Founded | 1938 |
| Headquarters |  Sunderland,UK |
| Key people | Sir Richard Broadbent, Chairman David Martin, CEO |
| Industry | Transport |
| Revenue | £1,729 million (2006) |
| Operating income | £120 million (2006) |
| Net income | £105 million (2006) |
| Employees | circa 37,000 (2006) |
| Website | www.arriva.co.uk |
Arriva plc (LSE: ARI) is a British-based international public transport operator, headquartered in Sunderland. It has bus and/or rail operations in Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
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[edit] History
The company grew out the Cowie motor retail business which was founded in 1938 and gradually bought various UK bus companies from 1980 onwards. It is the third largest bus operator in the UK after First and Stagecoach and has become one of the big five operators that have come to dominate the UK bus market since deregulation, the others being Firstgroup (the largest), Stagecoach, Go-Ahead and National Express. The Arriva brand was introduced on its numerous bus operations in 1997. Along with the other major bus groups Arriva also moved into rail operations following privatisation. Also in 1997 Arriva made its first move into the continental European market with acquisition of Danish firm Unibus Holdings.
As well as public transport operations Arriva previously ran a large vehicle rental service in the UK, sold to Ember in late 2005. It disposed of its original motor retail division in 2003.
The company runs a bus & coach distribution business in the UK - Arriva Bus & Coach
[edit] Livery
In the main, for bus and rail operations, Arriva uses a uniform corporate livery. The livery features an aquamarine base colour with Cotswold Stone coloured semi-circle on the upper front section, outlined by a white stripe. A thin yellow stripe runs around the base of the vehicle, and the same colour is used for any lettering required.
Various route branding schemes see the liberal application of basic colours and wording to some routes.
Initially to comply with Transport for London's contract requirements, Arriva London adapted its livery by using red as the base colour, with extra red at the front to form "horns" instead of a full circle. Latterly, London vehicles have been painted all-over red, with almost no trace of the Arriva corporate livery.
[edit] Exceptions to standard livery
- Arriva London - Red livery
- Arriva North West and Wales Airlink services 500 and 700
- CrossCountry trains.
- Express branded buses: blue skirt and "cow's horns"
- Green Line Coaches
- New Enterprise Coaches: White with red logos
- The Original Tour
- Tellings-Golden Miller and all of its subsidiaries
- Driver training vehicles - White with deep grey skirt.
[edit] Senior management
- Sir Richard Broadbent — Non-Executive Chairman
- David Martin — Chief Executive.
- Steve Lonsdale — Group Managing Director (Finance)
- Steve Clayton — Group Managing Director (Corporate Affairs)
[edit] Transport operations
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] Bus operations
- See also: Bus transport in the United Kingdom
- Arriva London - trading as Arriva London North, Arriva London South and Leaside Travel.
- Arriva Midlands - trading as Arriva Derby, Arriva Fox County, Arriva Midlands North and Stevensons of Spath Ltd.
- Arriva North East
- Arriva Northumbria
- Arriva North West and Wales - trading as Arriva Cmryu, Arriva Liverpool, Arriva Manchester, Arriva Merseyside and Arriva North West.
- Arriva Scotland West
- Arriva Shires & Essex - trading as Arriva East Herts & Essex, Arriva The Shires and MK Metro.
- Arriva Southern Counties - trading as Arriva Guildford and West Surrey, Arriva Kent & Sussex, Arriva Kent Thameside, Arriva Maidstone, Arriva Medway Towns, Arriva Southend and New Enterprise Coaches.
- Arriva Yorkshire
- Centrebus Holdings - 40% shareholding, trading as K-Line and The Huddersfield Bus Company.
- Green Line - operates express coach services between the London and the Home Counties.
- Tellings-Golden Miller
- The Original Tour - also trading as Arriva Wandsworth.
- The Heritage Fleet
[edit] Vehicle rental
Arriva used to operate a UK-wide vehicle rental business, but this was sold for £96 million to Northgate, an existing rental business, in 2005.
[edit] Train operating companies — current
- Arriva Trains Wales/Trenau Arriva Cymru, operates the majority of passenger rail service in Wales and the Welsh Marches. Gained franchise in 2003 and due to run for 15 years, subject to Welsh Assembly Government reviews every five years.[1]
- CrossCountry, long distance cross country routes in England and Scotland from 11 November 2007 to April 2016 (franchise taken over from Virgin CrossCountry).[2]
[edit] Train operating companies — former
- Arriva Trains Northern, ran local rail services in Northern England from 2000 to 2004.
- Arriva Trains Merseyside, ran urban rail services on Merseyside from 2000 to 2003.
[edit] Netherlands
Arriva moved into the Dutch market in 1998, and a year later saw their first venture into Dutch Railways
[edit] Bus operations
Arriva Operate Services in the following areas:
- Groningen (city and province), but controlled by the municipality
- North- and Mid-Drenthe
- Friesland: only South East Friesland and Leeuwarden
- Gelderland (Rivierenland)
- Zuid-Holland: Drechtsteden , Alblasserwaard, Vijfheerenlanden, Hoeksche Waard, Goeree-Overflakkee
- Noord-Holland (Waterland)
[edit] Rail operations
Arriva runs services over the following lines:
- Groningen – Leeuwarden
- Groningen – Delfzijl
- Groningen – Roodeschool
- Groningen – Nieuweschans – Leer (Germany)
- Leeuwarden – Harlingen Haven
- Leeuwarden – Stavoren
- Dordrecht - Gorinchem - Geldermalsen
Passes and tickets issued under the National Tariff System are valid on Arriva trains.
[edit] Germany
In Germany, Arriva is one of the largest private rail companies in regional rail transport, the third largest after Deutsche Bahn and Veolia Transportation, according to Arriva themselves. Arriva Deutschland GmbH was formed in 2003 in Hamburg and then moved its seat to Viechtach, the seat of one of its subsidiaries.
Arriva Deutschland operates through five subsidiaries, among them PE Arriva AG which in turn controls the Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH (PEG) and a local bus company in Neustrelitz and holds a 50% participation in Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH (ODEG). PEG operates several lines in east Germany around Berlin and North-Rhine Westphalia, ODEG in east Germany.
Second comes Regentalbahn AG or Länderbahn, with subsidiary Vogtlandbahn, which operates regional rail services in southern Sachsen, northern and southern Bavaria and eastern Thuringia, and a long distance service to Berlin.
Through a participation in the Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen AG (OHE), Arriva has with 30.7% indirectly the largest minority participation in Metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft operating regional train services on the lines Hamburg - Bremen, Hamburg - Hanover, and Hanover - Göttingen. OHE operates also buses and rail freight. Since April 2007, Arriva-Bachstein GmbH holds about 85% of OHE's capital, communal entities the rest. Arriva-Bachstein GmbH was formed to bid for the sale of the shares of OHE previously owned by the federal government, the Land Niedersachsen, and the Deutsche Bahn, and is owned 86%[3] by Arriva Deutschland GmbH and 14% by a regional transport company, Verkehrsbetriebe Bachstein GmbH in Celle. OHE is also a rail infrastructure owner with 320.5 km own network and 20.4 km through a subsidiary. Arriva is to build a rail cargo center in Celle.
Finally, Arriva Deutschland owns two bus companies, Sippel in the Rhein-Main region near Frankfurt on Main and Bils near Münster, in the north of North-Rhine Westphalia.
[edit] Sweden
Arriva operates bus lines in southern Sweden since 1997 and since June 2007 a nine-year franchise for the Pagatag regional rail services in Skåne County, south Sweden.[4]
Arriva is also used since 2004 in Jönköping, run by Jönköpings Länstrafik.
[edit] Denmark
Denmark has the first country on the continent where Arriva started its business there in 1997. Arriva Denmark operates buses and trains.
Bus operations
1997 Arriva entered the Danish bus transport market, also running bus services in the south of Sweden.
1999 and 2001 Arriva extended their regional operations in Denmark, where they now have a 30 per cent share of bus services.
2004 With the acquisition of bus operations in Jutland and Copenhagen, Arriva have a 40 per cent share of services in the capital.
2007 Arriva acquired Veolia Scandinavia, Denmark's second largest bus operator.
They also operate demand response vehicles and water buses.
Train operations
2003 Arriva was the first private company to win passenger rail franchises, running services in Mid and North Jutland on eight-year concessions. They continue to bid for new franchises in the phased privatisation of the national rail network.
2004 Arriva introduced 29 new Alstom Coradia Lint trains fitted with environmentally-friendly EURO III engines.
Today they carry five per cent of all rail passengers in the country, and cover 15 per cent of the national network. Arriva was the top-performing rail operator in Denmark , with a total reliability of 98 per cent.
[edit] Italy
Since 2002, Arriva is operating buses in Italy. According to Arriva, they operate 1,770 buses. They provide urban, inter-urban and airport services in the Bergamo, Brescia and Lecco areas, in the Udine area of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and in the Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta regions near Turin.
2002 Arriva acquired SAB Autoservizi and entered the Italian market, operating in the Lombardy, Liguria and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions of northern Italy. They provide urban, inter-urban and airport services in the Bergamo, Brescia and Lecco areas.
2004 Arriva expanded into the Udine area of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region with the acquisition of 60 per cent of SAF.
2005 Arriva began operating SADAM in the Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta regions of northern Italy, near Turin. They run public transport bus services as well as commercial, contract and private hire services.
2007 Arriva entered a joint venture with Ferrovie Nord Milano Group (FNM SpA) and completed the acquisition of 49 per cent of Italian bus operator SPT Linea.
[edit] Spain
Buses. 1999 Arriva entered the Spanish bus market in Galicia. Their services cover three of the four provinces in the region - La Coruña, Lugo and Ourense - including part of the famous Santiago pilgrimage route. They are now focusing on working with the metropolitan transport authorities to develop our operations in La Coruña and Ferrol.
2002 Arriva began bus service operations in Mallorca. Their Autocares Mallorca and Bus Nord operations cover the northern and western parts of the island, linking the capital Palma with towns such as Soller, Inca and Alcúdia.
2007 Arriva acquired Esfera, an operator in Madrid, providing school contracts and private hire bus services.
[edit] Portugal
Buses. 2000 Arriva entered the Portuguese bus market running inter-urban services in the north-west of Portugal.
2002 Arriva acquired Transportes Sul do Tejo, a scheduled bus and coach operator in the growing commuter region south of Lisbon, an area of some 600 square miles. They also operate schools and works contracts here.
2006 Arriva acquired a 21.5 per cent share of leading transport company Barraqueiro, with bus and rail operations in and around Lisbon.
[edit] Czech Republic
Buses. December 2006 Arriva entered the Czech Republic bus market with the acquisition of Transcentrum Bus s.r.o, a leading company operating bus services to the north-east of Prague.
Based in Mladá Boleslav, they operate in the Central Bohemian Region with additional services in the regions of Liberec and Hradec Králové.
Arriva provide commercial services, contracted services to local authorities, contracted private services and a travel agency. They also have offices in central Prague.
January 2007 Arriva acquired Bosák Bus s.r.o, which operates to the south west of Prague (PÅ™Ãbram), strengthening their position in the Czech Republic bus market.
November 2007 Arriva acquierd OSNADO s. r. o., which operates around Trutnov district, near the biggest Czech mounains Krkonoše.
[edit] Poland
Joint venture with PCC Rail formed December 2006.[5]. In December 2007 Poland became the 10th country in which Arriva operates transport services. The company won a tender to serve passenger rail traffic on some non-electrified lines in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, thus effectively breaking the monopoly of the Polskie Koleje Państwowe.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://new.wales.gov.uk/about/cabinet/cabinetstatements/cabinetstatements2006/932432/?lang=en
- ^ BBC NEWS | Business | Virgin loses Cross Country rail
- ^ ÖPNV-Wettbewerb 20.2.2007
- ^ a b Rolf Andersson (October 2007). "Skåne springboard as Arriva expands". Railway Gazette International.
- ^ "Freightliner prepares to compete in Poland" (March 2007). Railway Gazette International.
[edit] External links
- Arriva Website
- Corporate Video
- The Heritage fleet website
- The Original Tour
- London Sightseeing Tours
- Green Line
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