Viad Corp is the successor company of The Greyhound Corporation that was incorporated in 1926. Greyhound’s first operations, transportation, began in 1914 in Hibbing, Minnesota. That business grew to become the largest bus company in the world, known as Greyhound Lines.
In the 1960s, we began transforming into a conglomerate and diversified into various industries with hundreds of businesses, including the two that we know today as Pursuit and GES.
From the 1980s to the early 2000s, we made many strategic divestitures of businesses, including Greyhound Lines, Inc. bus operations, The Finova Group, Motor Coach Industries, The Dial Corp, Premier Cruise Lines, Restaura dining servings operations, Dobbs International Services airline food service, and MoneyGram International.
In 2014, we announced a go-forward growth strategy to enhance shareholder value, which was focused on scaling Pursuit and improving the profitability of GES. Steve Moster was appointed President & CEO to lead the company forward and remained President of GES. In 2015, David Barry was appointed President of Pursuit to drive its growth journey.