Ann Gloag
Ann Gloag, OBE (born Ann Heron Souter on 10 December 1942 in Perth), is a Scottish business woman and charity campaigner.
Biography
Educated at Caledonian Road Primary School and Perth High School, she qualified as a nurse and during a 20 year career worked as a burns unit sister.
Stagecoach
Gloag founded bus company "Gloagtrotter" in October 1980 with her then-husband Robin Gloag, joined later by her brother, chartered accountant Brian Souter. Some £25,000 of her father's severance money was used to purchase two small buses. Later the company expanded to offer cheap journeys between Dundee and London. They initially offered sandwiches (provided by her and her mother), blankets, and tea. The company was renamed "Stagecoach Express Services", and subsequently became Stagecoach Group. Her involvement in Stagecoach has diminished in recent years, although she remains a non-executive director.
Other business interests
Gloag also has investments outside Stagecoach Group with her brother, including bus builder Alexander Dennis (through her Highland & Universal Investments company) and a chain of petrol stations and other property interests through a shareholding in Moncrieffe Holdings. She was also an investor in Cambridge-based regional airline Scot Airways but sold this shareholding on 18 September 2006.
Charity works
Gloag now devotes a significant amount of her time to charity interests, including support for Mercy Ships and Opportunity International. She was appointed OBE in the 2004 New Year's Honours List for her services to charity. In 2005 Edinburgh Napier University awarded her an honorary doctorate. In honour of her late son she runs a charitable school in Nairobi, Kenya, the Jonathan Gloag Academy.
Personal life
Gloag has owned Beaufort Castle near Inverness since 1995, and Kinfauns Castle, near Perth since 2004. She has attempted to block off private access at Kinfauns in a high profile case.[1][2][3][4] On 12 June 2007 she was successful in gaining a court ruling that she was legally entitled to bar the public from a swath of woodland in the grounds of Kinfauns Castle.[5]
Her ex-husband Robin Gloag was killed in a car crash on 6 December 2007.[6] Their son, Jonathan, died in 1999, aged 28.
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Key personnel |
Sir Brian Souter (CEO) · Robert Spiers (chairman) · Ann Gloag (Stagecoach UK Bus founder)
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United Kingdom
bus companies |
Stagecoach London ( East London, Selkent, Thameside) · Stagecoach West Scotland ( Western, A1 Service, Arran, Glasgow) · Stagecoach Highlands (Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Skye, Orkney) · Stagecoach East Scotland ( Fife, Bluebird, Perth, Strathtay, JW Coaches, Rennies) · Stagecoach North East ( Newcastle, South Shields, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Teesside) · Stagecoach North West (Cumbria, Lancaster, Lancashire, Preston, Network Chorley) · Stagecoach Manchester ( Manchester, Magic Bus) · Stagecoach Merseyside ( Merseyside) · Stagecoach Yorkshire ( Yorkshire, Chesterfield, Sheffield) · Stagecoach East Midlands (Bassetlaw, Mansfield, Grimsby-Cleethorpes, Hull, Lincolnshire) · Stagecoach Midlands ( Northants, Warwickshire) · Stagecoach Oxfordshire ( Oxfordshire, Oxford Tube) · Stagecoach East ( Stagecoach Cambridgeshire ( Cambridge, Peterborough. The Fens), Bedford) · Stagecoach West ( Cheltenham, Swindon, Gloucester, Cotswolds, Wye and Dean) · Stagecoach Wales ( Stagecoach in South Wales) · Stagecoach South East ( East Kent, East Sussex, Eastbourne, Hastings) · Stagecoach South ( Hants & Surrey, Hampshire, Portsmouth, South Downs) · Stagecoach South West ( Devon) · Stagecoach Express · Scottish Citylink (35% with ComfortDelGro) · Megabus (United Kingdom) · Stagecoach Gold/Citylink Gold
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North American
bus companies |
United States: Coach USA ( Northeast: Community Coach, Gray Line New York ( 50% with New York Airport Service), Olympia Trails, Red & Tan Tours, Rockland Coaches, Short Line Bus, Suburban Trails) · ( North Central: Butler Motor Transit, Central Cab Company, Coach USA Chicago, Lenzner Coach Lines, Tri-State/United Limo, Wisconsin Coach Lines, Van Galder) · Megabus (North America)
Canada: Coach Canada: Erie Coach Lines, Trentway-Wagar, Gray Line Montreal
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Gloag, Ann |
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10 December 1942 |
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