NOT SINCE Gerald Ratner described one of his company's products as "crap" have the supposed comments of an executive caused such a storm. After all, if you call your customers "riff-raff", you can hardly expect them to come back for more. That is how Keith Cochrane, the...
STAGECOACH will find out early next year if it has secured the contract to deliver commuter rail services in the Boston area of the United States. The Perth-based group is well-placed on the shortlist of bidders which has now been reduced to three after the withdrawal from...
STAGECOACH, the UK bus and rail company, is bidding to take over parts of Amtrak, the crisis-stricken US train operator which is teetering on the brink of collapse. The UK group confirmed yesterday that it had been shortlisted to operate the Boston rail commuter system which is...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Inergy, L.P. (NASDAQ:NRGY) announced that its regulated subsidiary, Central New York Oil and Gas Company, LLC ("CNYOG"), has executed a definitive agreement to purchase from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company ("TGP") the 24-mile lateral pipeline connecting Inergy's Stagecoach natural gas storage facility to TGP's Line 300 ("Stagecoach...
Stagecoach, the aggressive bus and rail operator, is gauging continental railways for possible privatisation bids in the wake of a European Commission white paper on deregulation. The Perth-based company, which already owns South West Trains and the Island Line on the Isle of Wight, sees international expansion -...
Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West By Philip L. Fradkin Simon and Schuster, 250 pages, $27.50 Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West By Philip L. Fradkin Simon and Schuster, 250 pages, $27.50
FIRST IMPRESSION In one superbly expansive gesture, which we can call Stagecoach, John Ford has swept aside 10 years of artifice and talkie compromise, and has made a picture that sings a song of camera. It moves, beautifully, across the plains of Arizona, and through all the...
JOHN MONKS, the TUC general secretary, is not a man to be upstaged, even by flamboyant entrepreneurs such as Brian Souter, the multimillionaire boss of Stagecoach. At a recent dinner in Manchester to celebrate the launch of the group's European Union Works Council, Mr Monks couldn't resist trying...
LONDON AFP — A bus operator in Britain is road-testing sheep urine as a way of cutting pollution. Stagecoach has fitted a tank to a bus in Winchester, southern England, which sprays urine into the exhaust fumes to reduce nitrous oxide emissions, The Guardian newspaper reported. The radical...
Brian Souter, the executive chairman of Stagecoach, was in characteristically ebullient and aggressive mood yesterday, forecasting that by the end of the decade his bus and rail empire would be four times its present size and turning over a cool pounds 2bn. Whichever way you look at it, that is...
ANGEL Trains, the British rolling stock leasing company, has ordered a fleet of Desiroemus from Siemens for [pounds sterling]640 million ($US 921.8 million). The trains right will be leased to the successful bidder for the South West Trains franchise--for which Stagecoach, the existing operator, has been selected as the preferred...
By Staff The Big Trail (1930, Fox) Wayne stars in the first of his many leading roles in the western genre. Stagecoach (1939, Warner) Wayne became a major star with this landmark western about a group...
Stagecoach's shares rose 7 per cent as the public transport operator unveiled a bullish trading statement and plans to hand back GBP250m to shareholders. The group said passenger traffic is particularly strong on its South West Trains franchise. Andy Chu at Merrill Lynch has upped pre-tax...
The name Wells Fargo is forever linked with the image of a six-horse stagecoach thundering across the American West, loaded with gold. According to the most comprehensive government data available on small business lending nationwide, Wells Fargo &The name Wells Fargo is forever linked with the image of a six-horse...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Inergy, L.P. (NASDAQ: NRGY) announced today that its regulated subsidiary Central New York Oil And Gas Company, LLC ("CNYOG") has been granted its Section 7c Application for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") for the expansion of the Stagecoach...
Sep. 23--When the Wells Fargo stagecoach rolls into town in November, banking in Austin will never be the same. Sep. 23--When the Wells Fargo stagecoach rolls into town in November, banking in Austin will never be the same.
Sep. 18--Last summer when Wells Fargo absorbed First Interstate Bank into its ranks, quite a few Bakersfield customers jumped off the stagecoach. Sep. 18--Last summer when Wells Fargo absorbed First Interstate Bank into its ranks, quite a few Bakersfield customers jumped...
Wells Fargo & Co.'s stagecoach name and column-fronted branches evoke a venerable bank that has kept its credit discipline over the decades. But that's not good enough. Responding to an increasingly competitive climate in which growt...
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