FirstGroup America is the leading transportation company in North America and is part of FirstGroup plc a FTSE 100 company traded on the London Stock Exchange. With annualized revenues of more than $10 billion per year FirstGroup transports more than 2.5 billion passengers a year. Based in Cincinnati Ohio the Groups North American operations account for 100,000 of its 137,000 employees. FirstGroup America provides busing and maintenance services to municipalities, school districts and the general public in both Canada and the US. First Student is the largest provider of student transportation safely carrying 4 million students a day. FirstGroup operates Greyhound services in the U.S. and Canada and is one of North Americas largest private sector providers of transit management and contracting services as well as maintaining fleets for both public and private sector customers including fire and police departments. FirstGroup joins Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals as a national sponsor in 2009. Locations will fundraise through a variety of activities to help their local member hospitals.