Company Profile
First is the UK's largest transport company with a revenue of over £3 billion per annum, moving two billion passengers a year and with some 74,000 employees across the UK and North America.
We are the largest bus operator in the UK running more than one in five of all local bus services and carrying 2.9 million passengers every day.
We operate passenger and freight rail services in the UK. Our passenger operations include regional, intercity and commuter services - First Great Western, First ScotRail, First Capital Connect, First TransPennine Express and Hull Trains. We also operate the rail freight company GB Railfreight.
First operates the Croydon Tramlink network carrying approximately 20 million passengers a year on behalf of Transport for London.
In North America the we have three operating divisions: yellow school buses (First Student), transit contracting and management services (First Transit) and vehicle maintenance and ancillary services (First Services). Headquartered in Cincinnati, the businesses operate across the US and Canada. Our fleet of over 22,000 yellow school buses carries over one million students to and from school each day.
Key Statistics1 for the Year Ended 31st March 2007
1. Further details are available in our Annual Report
2. Distribution to shareholders comprise dividends paid of £57.1 plus share repurchases of £ nil million