Arriva makes top 5 in PA Consulting Inward Investment Track 50 list

Arriva has been ranked 4th nationally in the inaugural Sunday Times PA Consulting Inward Investment Track 50. The study provides a league table of the 50 largest foreign employers in the UK.

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Notes to editors

Arriva

• Arriva is one of the largest providers of passenger transport in Europe, employing some 54,500 people and delivering more than 2.2 billion passenger journeys every year.
• We provide transport services including buses, trains, commuter coaches and waterbuses, and operate in 14 European countries including the UK: Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
• We also operate a specialist transport business which provides health and social transport services across the UK.
• Arriva is part of Deutsche Bahn, one of the world’s leading passenger transport and logistics service providers. Headquartered in Sunderland, UK, Arriva is responsible for Deutsche Bahn's regional passenger transport services outside of Germany.

League table criteria

• The parent company must be trading and, if listed, its primary stock market listing outside the UK.
• UK staff is the estimated full time equivalent (FTE) number. It excludes contractors, and also temporary staff as they are typically employed by a third party; franchisee staff are also excluded.
• The UK staff number is an estimate as supplied by the featured companies during the research period, January to May 2014. For further information please see our website, inwardinvestmenttrack.co.uk. Fast Track and its sponsors do not endorse any of the companies