As part of the privatisation of British Rail, the Great Western InterCity franchise was awarded by the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising to Great Western Holdings in December 1995, and it began operations on 4 February 1996. Great Western Holdings was owned by some former British Rail managers (51%), FirstBus (24.5%) and 3i (24.5%).. In March 1998, FirstGroup bought out its …

Great Western Holdings Great Western Holdings [1] was formed in December 1994 to bid for rail franchises in the United Kingdom during the Privatisation of British Rail . Shares in the company were held by Richard George, Brian Scott and some other British Rail managers (51%), FirstBus (24.5%) and 3i (24.5%).

Greater Western is a railway franchise for the provision of passenger services from London Paddington to the Cotswolds, West of England, South West England and South Wales. The current holder is Great Western Railway .

The Great Western Garment Company (GWG) was a Canadian denim and western wear clothing company founded in 1911 in Edmonton, Alberta by Charles A. Graham and Alexander Cameron Rutherford (the first Premier of Alberta). The company's slogan of "They wear longer because they're made stronger" suggests the clothing's intended market; farmers and working-class …

Great-West Lifeco Inc. is a Canadian insurance-centered financial holding company that operates in North America, Europe and Asia through five wholly owned, regionally focused subsidiaries. Many of the companies it has indirect control over are part of its largest subsidiary, The Canada Life Assurance Company; the others are managed by Great-West Lifeco U.S. LLC, a U.S. based …

SS Great Western of 1838, was a wooden-hulled paddle-wheel steamship built of Dantzic pine, the first steamship purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic, and the initial unit of the Great Western Steamship Company. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1837 to 1839, which was then passed by the SS British Queen.Designed by British civil engineer Isambard Kingdom …

The company was renamed FirstGroup in December 1997 after the company moved into railways in February 1996 with the privatisation of British Rail, through a 24.5% shareholding in Great Western Holdings that won the Great Western and North Western franchises, and a 100% shareholding in First Great Eastern that ran the Great Eastern franchise from January 1997.

GREAT WESTERN HOLDINGS, INC. There are 7 companies that go by the name of Great Western Holdings, Inc.. These companies are located in Austin TX, Houston TX, Incline Village NV, Jupiter FL, Napa CA, Paradise Valley AZ, Phoenix AZ, West Palm Beach FL, and Wilmington DE. GREAT WESTERN HOLDINGS, INC.