Blue Bird

Blue Bird Corp. engages in the design and manufacture of school buses. The company is headquartered in Macon, Georgia and currently employs 2,008 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-01-17. The firm is engaged in designing, engineering, and manufacturing low- and zero-emission school buses with more than 20,000 propane, natural gas, and electric-powered buses. The Bus segment includes the manufacture and assembly of buses to be sold to a variety of customers across the United States, Canada, and in certain limited international markets. The Parts segment consists primarily of the purchase of parts from third parties to be sold to dealers within its network and certain large fleet customers. The company designs, engineers, manufactures, and sells three types of buses: Type C school buses, Type D school buses, and specialty buses. Each of its Type C and Type D buses is manufactured and assembled on its own dedicated purpose-built chassis in Fort Valley, Georgia. Its network of dealers and authorized repair centers operate over 200 locations to support the fleet across the United States and Canada.