Nobina Sverige

Nobina Sverige AB

A Volvo 7700 CNG operated by Nobina Sverige.
Parent	Nobina
Founded	1 January 1990
Headquarters	Solna,
Service area	Sweden
Chief executive	Jan Bosaeus
Website	www.nobina.se

Nobina Sverige AB, former Swebus AB, is the largest bus operator in Sweden, with 5,277 employees, 2,241 buses and net sales of 5,138 million SEK. It was owned by the Swedish State Railways until October 1996, when it was sold to Stagecoach Group, and then later, in January 2000, to Concordia Bus.

Swebus AB was officially formed on 1 January 1990, when all bus operations of the Swedish State Railways (SJ) were merged to one company. This included SJ Buss and GDG Biltrafikk AB, owned through SJ's subsidiary Swedcarrier AB. The history of SJ's bus operations date back to 1911, while GDG dates back to 1932. However, the companies operated like before for some months, and GDG became Swebus from 1 May, while SJ Buss joined on 1 November. The two subsidiaries Swebus Inrikes AB (domestic) and Swebus Utrikes AB (foreign) were formed.

On 1 July 1991, Postens Diligenstrafik, the Swedish postal service's own bus operator was also incorporated. This operator had many brucks for carrying mail in rural parts of Sweden.

In 1994, Swebus expanded their activities to Finland by acquiring Finnish operator HPT-TransBus Oy, which changed name to Oy Swebus Finland Ab on 25 January 1995. Another Finnish bus operator, Oy Espoon Auto Ab, was acquired in 1995 and was later merged into Swebus Finland.

On 9 June 1994, the Swedish government stated that SJ should concentrate their business to only railway traffic, thus selling out any non-related companies like Swebus, and on 2 October 1996, Swebus was sold to Stagecoach Holdings Plc. The management of all foreign operations were transferred to Stagecoach, and on 14 April 1998, the Finnish subsidiary changed name to Stagecoach Finland Oy Ab.

In April 1997, the long distance coach service Swebus Express was started with traffic in several of Swebus' route areas. The name had first been used in the 1980s, and had also been loosely used on the long distance routes prior to 1997, but under Stagecoach's ownership it was developed to a commercial product. The Swebus Express division was later made into a separate subsidiary.