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Go-Ahead Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On 22 February 2006 Go-Ahead purchased another operator in the West Midlands, Probus Management Limited (T/A Peoples Express), this adds around 100 vehicles to Go-Ahead's West Midlands operations, and will be consolidated into The Birmingham Coach Company. These tactics are thought to have helped two of the group's bus operating companies, in Oxford and Brighton, to gain a reputation as among the best in the UK outside London. The group has been know for some time to be keen to begin operating in the area. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Go-Ahead_Group   (699 words)

Metrobus (bus operator in south-east England) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Founded in 1983 and in 1999, Metrobus was acquired by the Go-Ahead Group, a major bus group (with its origins in the North-East of England) which also operates the Thameslink and Southern rail franchises. Metrobus (a subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group) operates local bus services in south and south-east London, and parts of Surrey, Kent, West Sussex and East Sussex. Initially, its headquarters were in Orpington and became a significant independent operator of routes contracted to London Transport (later Transport for London). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metrobus_(bus_operator_in_south-east_England)   (360 words)

Group forging ahead However, when the group appeared in court Dec. 27, Common Pleas Judge Kathleen Sutula said the despite a court-ordered recount of petition signatures the residents gathered, there still were not enough valid names to satisfy the 527 needed for her to hear the case. In a Nov. 30 lawsuit, the group accused the five board members of "misfeasance, malfeasance and neglect of duty" in their handling of last May's classified employees strike. Although details were not available by press time, the group's lawyer said he was awaiting his clients' submission of 25 or more additional petition signatures so that he can file them in court. www.sunnews.com /news/2002/part1/0207/SOUSTER.htm   (359 words)

Transaction Advisory Services - Our Deals - The Go-ahead Group plc The Go-Ahead Group plc was the preferred bidder, having a successful track record in the transport sector and appropriate credentials from its operation of the Thameslink and Thames Trains franchises. We advised The Go-Ahead Group plc during the negotiation process facilitated by the SRA. Agreement was reached when The Go-Ahead Group plc agreed to some deferred consideration arrangements and to release Connex from certain rolling stock commitments. www.ey.com /global/content.nsf/UK/CF_-_Deals_-_The_Go-ahead_Group_plc   (502 words)

Go-Ahead Group Transporter Go Ahead Group said cost pressures were adversely affecting the group’s bus business in a trading update for the half year to December 2005. Transport company Go-Ahead Group reported that operating profits (before amortisation and exceptionals) for the half year to December 2005 dropped to £46.3m from £50.9m the previous year, as higher fuel costs hit both bus and train operations. Bus and train operator Go-Ahead Group, reported pre-tax profit growth (excluding goodwill and exceptional items)of 5% for the full-year to July 2005.Pretax profits reached £95.9m from £91.3m the previous year. investmentideas.co.uk /research/go-ahead_group   (207 words)

AGOFA GROUP :: Always Ahead in All Ways :: AGOFA GROUP is the brain-child of a professional Mr. The Group is gradually emerging as a force to reckon with. Each Company of the Group is a separate entity and is managed by a team of young, blue-blood ed professionals who cannot put off their belly-fires. www.agofa.com   (164 words)

Questions over Go Ahead rise Go Ahead's shares have increased by 41pc from 361.5p to 511p since North Star Transpennine, a consortium of Go Ahead, the North East management team and French group Via-GTI, was shortlisted for North East on November 15. Hugh Bayley, Labour MP for York, said in the Commons: "Last week it was revealed that the Go Ahead Group was privy to inside information from British Rail in breach of the franchising rules, which gave it an advantage in the bidding process. THE Stock Exchange has launched an investigation into dealings in bus operator Go Ahead Group in the seven weeks since it was shortlisted for the Regional Railways North East franchise, an MP claimed yesterday. www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/01/14/cgo14.html   (361 words)

Ahead Although we are a small group relatively speaking, we have had increased visibility within the AHEAD organization. This group offers AHEAD members practical strategies on how to empower students and human resource managers to recruit, hire, train, and promote qualified post-secondary students with disabilities in today's diversified work force. The purpose of the International SIG is to bring together members of AHEAD representing countries other than the U.S. and persons from the U.S. and around the world who are interested in looking at issues from an international perspective. www.ahead.org /00archives/new/about/SIGs/listservs.htm   (468 words)

Spear: Solutions, Bus - Go Ahead Group Go Ahead Group have also purchased the Spear and Oracle solution for deployment in all its other bus divisions and this programme is expected to start with implementation in the North East division in the second-half of 2004. In early 2002, the Go Ahead Group in the U.K., chose Spear Technologies (Spear) to supply and implement Spear’s Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software, integrated with Oracle Financial software, for two of its bus operating divisions, London Central and London General. The two divisions use the Spear and Oracle software to maintain their moving assets and associated materials. www.speartechnologies.com /tg1u-gag.html   (297 words)

Petoskey News-Review In its first several years, the group explored possible strategies which could be used to preserve some of the area's open lands in the face of development pressures, gathering input from citizens and landowners, guest speakers and others. Early priorities which the group identified Thursday for preservation efforts included completing an inventory of local lands which could be targeted for protection, developing a countywide educational effort and identifying open spaces at high risk for loss. In 2004, the group released a report outlining several possible preservation strategies which could be used locally. www.petoskeynews.com /articles/2005/12/05/news/local_regional/news02.txt   (616 words)

Looking Ahead: Group to offer birding classes The group for women ages 19 and older meets 6-8 p.m Wednesdays and 2-4 p.m. The support group for young girls ages 13-18 meets 6-7 p.m. The Devereux Texas Treatment Network in League City is offering free Eating Disorders Support Groups for women who suffer from anorexia nervosa or bulimia. www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/01/21/looking.html   (387 words)

Go-Ahead: Group: Directors He is chairman of Henderson Group plc, PGI, Electra Kingsway VCT, and non-executive director of British American Tobacco as well as the Go-Ahead Group. He was appointed chief executive of the group's London bus division in 1997, and then moved over to head the rail division in 1999. He is also Chairman of Amey plc and a non-executive director of Northumbrian Water Group plc. www.go-ahead.com /group/directors.html   (556 words)

Interview with Martin Ballinger, Go-Ahead Group: TWST I am going to nurture it and tender it and look after it, and it is going to continue to be a very solid cash generator for us into the future. As far as rail is concerned, we are going to continue to get double-digit growth because, frankly, the alternative for the London commuter market is awful. It is going to give us that strong, robust cash flow into the future. www.twst.com /notes/articles/maa608.html   (1052 words)

STRAIGHT AHEAD Reviews The group recorded their first album for Atlantic Jazz, in 1991, "Look Straight Ahead", which made the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart "Top 20". A group of strong, inventive instrumentalists and vocalists, they have shown themselves to be powerful and imaginative composers and arrangers. Introduced as a product of their hometown's lively jazz scene, Straight Ahead was a finalist in the "Sony Innovators" national talent competition. www.fyicomminc.com /jazzwomen/straightaheadreview.htm   (597 words)

legal group looks ahead Members of Council 82, the correction officers’ union, also criticized the group as sensationalizing lawsuits and abuse cases to justify its existence. The group’s Plattsburgh office served some 14,000 state-prison inmates in Clinton, Essex, Franklin and St. Lawrence counties. Created after the 1971 Attica prison riots to represent inmates in court, Prisoners’ Legal Services has been touted by lawmakers and corrections administrators as a quasi-watchdog group and a release valve for inmates’ legal disputes in the state’s 69 prisons. www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/01_1999/011719994.htm   (547 words)

Thameslink Info The Go-Ahead Group plc and its subsidiaries shall not be bound by anything herein and shall not be liable for any losses as a result of virus transmission, although endeavours are made to protect against this. Southern and Thameslink make up The Go-Ahead Rail Division which is part of GOVIA Ltd and The Go-Ahead Group plc. The Go-Ahead Group plc - company number: 2100855 and GOVIA Limited - company number: 3278419. www.financialoutrage.org.uk /Thameslink_info.htm   (278 words)

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ROUNDUP Go-Ahead H1 profit falls 11 pct as London bombs, fuel cost impact - Forbes.com LONDON (AFX) - Go-Ahead Group PLC, the UK bus and rail group, has reported an 11 pct drop in interim underlying pretax profit, reflecting the negative impact of last July's terrorist attacks in London on discretionary rail travel and a sharp increase in fuel costs in the bus division. For the six months to Dec 31 2005 the group made a profit before taxation, goodwill and intangible asset amortisation and exceptional items of 43.6 mln stg -- better than the 40 mln stg analysts were expecting but down from a restated 49.1 mln stg last time. The group has hedged 30 pct of its year to end-June 2006 fuel requirement of 100 mln litres at a cap 25 pence a litre but is unhedged for the next financial year. www.forbes.com /afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2006/02/17/afx2534805.html   (1177 words)

Go Ahead Tours Share the world with your friends and family as a Go Ahead Group Coordinator and earn a host of benefits, including travel awards, cash bonuses and much more. Go Ahead Tours is a member of the When you organize a Go Ahead Tour with as few as 6 full paying participants, you'll get to travel on that tour for free! www.goaheadtours.com /master   (167 words)

Garden group looks ahead to spring She said the efforts of groups and individuals who help improve the appearance of Oneonta can sometimes go unrecognized. The group, which manages gardens and planters on private and public property throughout the city, has been busy removing plants that will not survive the winter. The Daily Star is a division of Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., The Dow Jones Community Newspaper Group. www.thedailystar.com /news/stories/2005/10/18/garden4.html   (658 words)

Go-Ahead: Education Packs for Teachers We have worked very closely with practicing teachers and those concerned with the improvement of the training/education interface to produce these two packs, which have been subject to ongoing trials by a substantial group of teachers during their development. Go-Ahead recognises the essentially local nature of public transport and our commitment to the communities we serve. These education packs are part of our Corporate Social Responsibility programme, which covers our work with local communities, action groups, schools, charities and the environment at large. www.go-aheadandlearn.co.uk   (229 words)

Ahead In 2002, representatives to the Regional AHEAD group from Kansas colleges determined there was a need to formally organize and so KanAHEAD was born. Out of that small beginning, the Great Plains Regional AHEAD group emerged, reaching out to disability service providers in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. E. Provided further, Kansas AHEAD is organized and operated exclusively for educational purposes. www.ahead.org /about/regional_affiliates/kansas   (267 words)

THE GO-AHEAD GROUP PLC AND OK MOTOR SERVICES LIMITED: A REPORT ON THE MERGER SITUATION The bus market in the reference area is dominated by four large national operators (including Go-Ahead), the others being Stagecoach Holdings plc (Stagecoach), which has the largest market share, National Express Group PLC (National Express) and British Bus PLC (British Bus). In view of these considerations we conclude that the merger does not operate and may be expected not to operate against the public interest. The reference area consists of the counties of Tyne and Wear, Durham, Cleveland and four adjacent districts or parts of districts in Northumberland. www.competition-commission.org.uk /rep_pub/reports/1995/goahead.htm   (529 words)

Guardian Go-Ahead chief's defiant farewell Go-Ahead Group's chief executive, Martin Ballinger, yesterday announced his retirement with a defiant swipe at critics of the transport company's involvement in the Ladbroke Grove train crash. "Right back at the beginning, the relatives [of victims] hired counsel who said that Go-Ahead had put profits ahead of safety. The group now has a market value of £630m, with bus companies in London, Brighton and Oxford. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4933461-103630,00.html   (536 words)

Alea Group Goes Ahead With Purchase Plan Global insurance and reinsurance company The Alea Group has gone ahead with a definitive agreement with Great American Insurance Company to purchase New York domiciled insurer Seven Hills Insurance Company. The acquisition is the most recent in a series of strategic moves from the Alea Group designed to grow its risk solutions capabilities around the world. With the acquisition, Alea grows its U.S. operations to feature direct property/casualty business underwritten by Alea Alternative Risk in Rocky Hill, Conn., a Group franchise which focuses on risk transfer and funding mechanisms which include captives, deductibles, self insured retentions, pools, risk retention groups and trusts. www.insurancejournal.com /news/east/2001/05/29/12361.htm?print=1   (131 words)

MERL – Group Elevator Scheduling In past work, we have shown that the uncertainty in the destinations of existing passengers can be marginalized efficiently by means of a fast dynamic programming algorithm, thus reducing significantly the expected waiting times of passengers. Background and Objective: Group elevator control is a hard industrial problem characterized by huge state spaces and significant uncertainty. Still, we hope that the structure of the problem might allow for an efficient branch-and-bound algorithm that can successfully replace the heuristic solutions currently employed in industry. www.merl.com /projects/ElevatorControl   (482 words)

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BBC NEWS Business London drives Go-Ahead earnings Demand for bus and rail services around London helped transport group Go-Ahead deliver better-than-expected earnings. The Newcastle-based firm reported a 43% rise in pre-tax profits to £47m ($88m) for the six months to 3 January. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/3506937.stm   (138 words)

Phone group moves ahead in Cuba STET's move could bolster the resolve of the Italian government to press ahead with a European Union legal challenge to Helms-Burton, despite the severe risks the dispute poses to international trade. STET International Netherlands, a subsidiary of the government-owned company, confirmed Tuesday that the firm had raised its stake in Cuba's ETECSA phone company from 12.25 percent to 29.29 percent. The top official of Mexico's financially troubled Grupo Domos in Havana has already left his post, and Italy's STET is getting ready to expand its management team on the island, officials in Cuba said. www.christusrex.org /www2/fcf/phongrp97ital.html   (516 words)

Go-Ahead Group says cost pressure still weighing on bus ops in H1 - Forbes.com LONDON (AFX) - Go-Ahead Group PLC said cost pressures continue to have an impact on the its bus division, particularly outside London where operating margins remain under pressure from high fuel costs and wage inflation. Following the contract win last month of its Govia joint venture with French group Keolis SA to run the Kent rail franchise, Go-Ahead has decided to withdraw from the current pre-qualification process for the new South West franchise. In a pre-close trading update ahead of interim results to Dec 31, the group said management actions to address these cost pressures continue but will take some time to deliver results. www.forbes.com /markets/feeds/afx/2005/12/13/afx2387320.html   (549 words)

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