GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

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RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

(19/06/2016 07:11)wirralbus Wrote:  At one point people where saying that GHA was going to be the next big player in North East Wales and Cheshire , the more I hear now , the more I think it will become a takeover target in its own right , but who by we all wonder .

Given the size of the operation I've thought for a while some larger companies could be interested in buying the operator. There's been rumours Stagecoach are interested in buying GHA and while people make a valid point that GHA have routes Stagecoach probably wouldn't be interested in, they could do a Yorkshire Traction style takeover whereby they purchased the company for it's Sheffield and South Yorkshire area operations and then sold off the Huddersfield and West Yorkshire operations to a Centrebus/Arriva consortium. It also allowed them to do a fleet reorganisation to get the buses they wanted to keep based in Barnsley and the ones they wanted to off-load based in Huddersfield.