On Thursday 3rd May 2012 Ken Grenda was inducted into the Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Honour Roll at a function held at Crown Palladium. The award was in recognition of Ken’s contribution to manufacturing through Volgren which he set up in 1977 and is now employing 600 people Australia wide. Ken’s determination and innovative [...]
13 December 2011 Late yesterday Grenda entered into an agreement to sell a majority stake in Volgren Australia Pty Ltd to Marcopolo S.A. Marcopolo is a listed company on the Brazilian stock exchange; it was founded in 1949 and is still controlled by the original founding family. Marcopolo is one of the world’s largest bus [...]
Volgren will today officially deliver the 500th low-floor bus built for ComfortDelGro Cabcharge (CDC), NSW’s biggest private bus operator, at a ceremony at Volgren’s Tomago Plant in Newcastle. The 12.5-metre bus, which takes 44 seated passengers Volgren will today officially deliver the 500th low-floor bus built for ComfortDelGro Cabcharge (CDC), NSW’s biggest private bus operator, at [...]
Volgren will today officially deliver the 500th low-floor bus built for ComfortDelGro Cabcharge (CDC), NSW’s biggest private bus operator, at a ceremony at Volgren’s Tomago Plant in Newcastle. The 12.5-metre bus, which takes 44 seated passengers, was constructed at the Tomago plant. It will run on CDC’s bus network in the Hunter. ‘Without CDC, it [...]
Dandenong-based bus body-builder Volgren has won a major contract to supply 38 new buses to the Ventura Bus Group. The contract was unveiled by the Victorian Minister for Manufacturing, Richard Dalla-Riva, who visited the Dandenong plant today (Tuesday 7 June). Volgren’s General Manager of Sales and Marketing, Tony Kerr, said Volgren was delighted to win [...]
Volgren is delighted with its contract to build buses for Western Australia’s Public Transport Authority, the company’s Managing Director Peter Dale said in Perth today. The tender announcement was made today. ‘Volgren has been proud to partner with PTA for the past 11 years, producing 950 buses over that time, and it is wonderful that [...]
chapter for the businesses. Grenda’s history in buses can be dated back to 1945 and was started by the late George Grenda. During nearly seven decades, GTM has experienced significant growth and today it is the leading bus operator in Victoria. Volgren commenced its operations in 1977 and has become the market leader in bus [...]
A bus-building facility that has created more than 250 jobs in the Newcastle area officially opened today. Volgren Australia, the country’s leading bus builder, unveiled its body-building factory at the Hunter Industrial Estate at Tomago, one year after construction began on the state-of-the-art facility. ‘Despite tough economic times, we are a proud Australian company that [...]
A bus-building facility that has created more than 250 jobs in the Newcastle area officially opened today. Volgren Australia, the country’s leading bus builder, unveiled its body-building factory at the Hunter Industrial Estate at Tomago, one year after construction began on the state-of-the-art facility. ‘Despite tough economic times, we are a proud Australian company that [...]
Volgren Australia today handed over the first bus produced at its state-of-the-art Queensland facility to the Brisbane City Council. The bus is the first of hundreds to be produced at the Eagle Farm bus body building plant, which is now fully operational. ‘Only nine months ago we were at this site for a groundbreaking ceremony, [...]