Former National Express boss joins Stagecoach

Could Phil White help Brian Souter to revive his company’s failed takeover bid for its rival?

He said he’d be back, and now he is. “It’s thank you from me, but it’s not goodbye,” Phil White told friends and colleagues in 2006 at a party to mark the end of his nine-year reign as chief executive of bus and train operator National Express Group. Since then White, 60, has kept busy by chairing Kier, the construction group, Lookers, the car dealership business, and UNITE, which develops student accommodation. Now, almost four years later, White has fulfilled his...

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