Ascendal Group is a British public transport company that operates

Whippet The Whippet is a dog breed of medium size. It is a sighthound breed that originated in England, descended from the Greyhound. Whippets today still strongly resemble a smaller Greyhound. Part of the hound group, Whippets have relatively few ...

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...

, the Ascendal Punta Arenas in southern

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

, and has a small shareholding in Hong Kong bus companies of Citybus and

New World First Bus New World First Bus Services Limited (NWFB) is the third-largest bus operator in Hong Kong. Established by NWS Holdings and FirstGroup in September 1998, it took over 88 China Motor Bus services in Hong Kong Island. Since 2020 it has been a s ...

through

Bravo Transport Bravo Transport Services Limited (), simply Bravo Transport is a Hong Kong public transport company, which owns two of the city's bus operators Citybus (Hong Kong), Citybus and New World First Bus. Another subsidiary, Bravo Media, is the agency f ...

. It was founded in 2018 by former

Tower Transit A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures. Towers are specifica ...

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

Adam Leishman until he and Go Whippet split away from

Transit Systems Transit Systems Group is an Australian-based public transport company, which also operates overseas through its subsidiary Tower Transit Group. Transit Systems Group is a subsidiary of the Kelsian Group, formerly SeaLink Travel Group. History ...

to form Ascendal. Leishman is the son of Transit Systems co-founder Graham Leishman and was previously the Business Development Director at Transit Systems.

Operations

Whippet

, formerly Go Whippet, is a bus operation in

, England. It was purchased by

in November 2014. The bus operation was transferred to Ascendal Group in October 2018.

Ascendal Punta Arenas

Ascendal Punta Arenas is Ascendal's bus operations in

Punta Arenas Punta Arenas (; historically Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antarctica Chilena. The city was officially renamed as Magallanes in 1927, but in 1938 it was changed back to "Punta Aren ...

Magallanes Region The Magallanes Region (), officially the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region ( es, Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. It is the southernmost, largest, and second lea ...

, that started in October 2020.

Citybus & New World First Bus

Ascendal owns 0.6% of

, which owns Hong Kong bus operators Citybus and

. The operations were acquired in August 2020 from

NWS Holdings NWS Holdings Limited () is the conglomerate flagship of New World Development. It was established in 2002 when its predecessor, Pacific Ports Company Limited, acquired New World Services Limited from New World Development and the infrastructure a ...

. Leishman also became the CEO of Bravo Transport.

References

External links

*{{official website, https://www.ascendalgroup.com/ Transport companies established in 2018 2018 establishments in England