Dear list members
A number of people expressed an interest in the answer to my query yesterday
regarding UK bus industry market shares. As usual, the UTSG list gave me the
answers very quickly, so here they are for those interested.
You should be able to obtain the information from a combination of UK
national stats and something called the Bus Industry Monitor, which is
produced by the TAS partnership in Preston
Bus industry market share by turnover (September 1998)
Rank Group % market share
1 FirstGroup 23.06
2 Stagecoach 16.35
3 Arriva 13.85
4 National Express 6.74
5 Go-Ahead 6.34
Source: TAS (1998)
The reference is: TAS (1998), Bus Industry Monitor 1998. TAS Publications
and Events, Preston.
Bus industry market share by turnover (1999)
First group 22.95%
stagecoach 16.39%
Ariva 13.61%
go-ahead 6.52%
Nat Express 6.26%
MTL 2.09%
Smaller Groups 3.10%
Management 7.3%
Municipals 6.69%
Independents g14.8%
Employee Owned 0.29%
Source Bus Industry Monitor 1999 - TAS Publications
Since then, Arriva have bought MTL - but I understood that they had to sell
on some of the bus services to achieve this purchase, so a simple addition
may not be appropriate - can anyone advise on this?
Thanks to Jonathan Cowie of Glasgow Caledonian for the following 3 and 5
firm concentration ratios
Year Concentration Ratio Concentration Ratio
CR3 CR5
1990/91 33.8% 44.3%
1991/92 35.7% 46.3%
1992/93 33.7% 43.9%
1993/94 31.0% 42.2%
1994/95 37.0% 51.7%
1995/96 48.7% 60.8%
1996/97 58.6% 73.9%
Thanks to all those who helped in this matter
Tony Whiteing
10/10/2000
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|