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Shearings (legally Shearings Travel Limited) [1] is a coach tour operator, part of the Leger Shearings Group, based in the United Kingdom.The tour operator brand specialises in holidays including escorted tours, unescorted tours, short breaks, self-drive holidays and river cruises throughout the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Ireland and Continental Europe.
Leger started operating coach tour holidays between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, from their base in Rotherham, South Yorkshire since 1983. [3] [7] [8]The parent company, as of 2022, is Leger Shearings Group which is 70% owned by Ian and Kathleen Henry, with the remaining 30% owned by company directors, Liam Race, Andrew Oldfield and Chris Plummer.
This was followed in April 2005 with Wallace Arnold merging with Shearings in a £200,000,000 (equivalent to £377,194,000 in 2023) deal to become WA Shearings, claiming a 14% share of the UK coach holiday market. [1] [11] [12] In 2007 the Wallace Arnold name was dropped, with the company name simplified to Shearings Holidays. [13]
This is a list of bus and coach operators of the United Kingdom. The list includes both current and historic entities, private companies and public operators, sub-brands and holding companies and public transport , private hire and tour operators.
Some of them also run rail services, express coach services and overseas transport companies. They are: Arriva. See List of Arriva bus companies; FirstGroup. See List of First UK bus companies; Go-Ahead Group. See List of Go-Ahead bus companies; Mobico Group. See List of Mobico Group UK bus companies; Stagecoach Group. See List of Stagecoach UK ...
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The Act also provided for the privatisation of the National Bus Company which was divided into 70 separate legal entities and sold, with the sale of National Coach Holidays to Shearings in July 1986 being the first. [7] Many were sold in management buyouts, including some 24 which introduced employee share ownership plans. [8]
Butlin's Pwllheli was a holiday camp located near Pwllheli in Wales.The site is now used by Haven Holidays for a caravan park and has been renamed Hafan y Môr.When originally opened in 1947, it was named Butlins Pwllheli, but in 1990 was renamed Starcoast World.