After a year in the job, CBW speaks to Wrightbus CEO Jean-Marc Gales, who looks back at how the company has changed in that time
It’s almost 12 months since Jean-Marc Gales took the reins as Chief Executive of Wrightbus. In that time Jean-Marc, who hails from Luxembourg, has overseen tremendous growth at the company in terms of both output and jobs. An engineer by profession, he has a background at many of the big car names including Lotus, Peugeot, Citroen, Mercedes and Volkswagen.
“The business is growing very fast and I am really proud of what we have achieved over the last 12 months,” Jean-Marc said. “We are the number one zero-emission bus maker in the UK. A year ago, we had 200 zero-emission buses on the road. Today, we have over 700 and in the next year we will get to 1,700. No one else comes close.”
Wrightbus lays claim to being the only manufacturer in Europe to offer a ‘complete suite’ of zero-emission buses, with both battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell single and double-deckers, though it’s important to qualify that with the caveat that other manufacturers also produce broad ranges including hydrogen, electric and trolleybuses in rigid and articulated formats, the latter being a more typical solution in Europe where high capacity is required; Wrightbus’ chief overseas double-deck market for fossil fuel and new energy buses is the Far East.
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