Greyhound Lines
Company
Key facts about this entity
Entity type: Company
Schema.org type: Corporation
Country: United States
Headquarters: Dallas, United States
Founded: 1914
Founder: Carl Wickman
Sector: Intercity coach transport - long-standing operator of scheduled intercity coach services in the United States, Canada and Mexico under the Greyhound brand
Notable DACH relationship: Flix (acquired Greyhound Lines from FirstGroup in October 2021 for a headline consideration widely reported at approx. USD 78M)
Official website: https://www.greyhound.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhound-lines
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Lines
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q715057
Entity Profile
Overview
Greyhound Lines is a United States intercity coach operator founded in 1914 in Hibbing, Minnesota, that operates scheduled long-distance coach services under the Greyhound brand across the United States and, historically, into Canada and Mexico; since October 2021 it has been owned by Flix following the sale by its previous owner FirstGroup plc.
What it is
Greyhound Lines was founded in 1914 in Hibbing, Minnesota by Carl Wickman and grew into the principal scheduled intercity coach network in the United States under the Greyhound brand. From 2007 until October 2021 Greyhound was a subsidiary of the UK public-transport company FirstGroup plc. In October 2021 Flix acquired Greyhound Lines from FirstGroup as part of the Flix group's expansion into North American intercity coach transport.
DACH relevance and Startuprad.io coverage
Greyhound Lines is the United States intercity coach brand through which Flix entered the North American long-distance coach market. In Startuprad.io's Unicorn Atlas cluster around Flix, Greyhound is recorded as the largest single geographic expansion of the Flix group to date: Flix acquired Greyhound Lines from FirstGroup plc in October 2021 for a headline consideration widely reported at approximately 78 million US dollars, structured as approximately 46 million US dollars in cash at completion and approximately 32 million US dollars in deferred consideration.
Meet the German Entrepreneur of the Year — Co-Founder of Flix, which now owns Greyhound #GSA22
Published: 14 December 2022
Last updated: 14 August 2026
Coverage type: Interview
https://www.startuprad.io/post/meet-the-german-entrepreneur-of-the-year-co-founder-of-flix-which-now-owns-greyhound-gsa22
Public source context
Public information on Greyhound Lines used for this record is drawn from its official https://www.greyhound.com , its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Lines and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q715057 , and public reporting on the October 2021 acquisition of Greyhound Lines by Flix from FirstGroup plc for a headline consideration widely reported at approx. USD 78M.
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