page_title: Julian Peddle
section_title: Centrebus
hierarchical_section_title: Julian Peddle / Centrebus
caption_attribution_description: English: A Centrebus bus on route 54 in Leicester. It is a Scania N230UD with Olympus body, registration mark YN08 OAD.
context_page_description: Julian Peddle is an entrepreneur who has worked in the bus industry since the early 1980s, having owned or part-owned numerous bus companies. He spent 11 years as co-owner of Stevensons of Uttoxeter between 1983 and 1994, having previously been its traffic manager. During the late 1990s and early 2000s he ran Status Group, a group of small bus companies spread across England which included BakerBus, Choice Travel and MK Metro. He was a major shareholder in Tellings-Golden Miller and Centrebus Holdings before their sale to Arriva.
  Peddle is currently a shareholder in Centrebus, D&G Bus, High Peak Buses, Select Bus and Midland Classic.
context_section_description: In 2000 Peddle purchased Luton based operator Lutonian in partnership with Chris Day of Red Rose Travel. Lutonian had in fact been taken over by Arriva Shires & Essex, but they had been forced to resell the company following a ruling by the Monopolies & Mergers Commission. The operation proved difficult to manage so the company was sold to Centrebus, a large independent formed in 2001 with its headquarters in Leicester. Peddle was impressed by the running of Centrebus and bought part of the company, which then began to grow rapidly. The St Albans depot of Sovereign Bus & Coach was bought in 2004, although it was sold on to Uno in 2008. The operations of MASS Engineering in Grantham were taken over in 2005, while Bowers Coaches was acquired in 2007.
  A further development came in 2008, when Centrebus teamed up with Arriva to form Centrebus Holdings. The new joint operation took over the Huddersfield depot of Stagecoach Yorkshire and local independent K-Line Travel. Centrebus had initially intended to buy K-Line, whose manager Russel Arden had previously run Edinburgh Transport during its time as a joint operation with Stevensons, while Arriva had wished to buy Stagecoach's operations in the town. Arriva took a 40% stake in the joint company, which paid around £3 million to buy the two companies and used the trading name Huddersfield Bus Company for the former Stagecoach operations. 
  In August 2008, Centrebus took over independent operator Woods, while Centrebus Holdings took over the Arriva Midlands depot at Hinckley. Some of the local routes operated by Woods were transferred to the joint operation. In September 2013, Arriva bought out its partners and rebranded the company Yorkshire Tiger.
caption: Centrebus East Lancs Olympus bodied Scania N230UD in Leicester in April 2011
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