East Midlands Trains is Recognised for Excellence
- 5 star rating for the first time - Highest level of excellence certification - Builds on customer service improvements
(firmenpresse) - LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwired) -- 04/05/13 -- has been awarded 5 stars by the British Quality Foundation (BQF) in the Recognised for Excellence (R4E) programme.
East Midlands Trains, part of the Stagecoach Group, received the 5 star certification following an extensive week-long assessment covering all areas of the company. This included face to face interviews with employees at all levels and visits to stations and maintenance depots.
This is the highest level of certification available, and this is the first time that East Midlands Trains been awarded 5 stars.
R4E is part of the EFQM Levels of Excellence, Europe's leading recognition programme for organisational performance. The assessor team praised East Midlands Trains for clearly defining customer requirements and 'exceeding them as a matter of course' and also commented on the innovative approach taken by the train operator.
David Horne, Managing Director for East Midlands Trains, said: "We're extremely pleased to have been awarded with a five star rating for the first time. It's a clear demonstration of the commitment our employees have made in striving to deliver significantly improved services for our customers."
Joe Goasdoue, Chief Executive of the BQF, said: "With this successful renewal of its R4E certification, East Midlands Trains shows that its performance continues to improve."
This comes on the back of East Midlands Trains just scoring its best ever customer satisfaction results. In the most recent independent passenger survey from Autumn 2012, 89% of passengers said they were satisfied with their East Midlands Trains service, representing the highest ever level of satisfaction. Since the start of the franchise in 2007, there has been a 10% increase in passenger satisfaction - a rate of improvement not bettered by any other train company in the country.
East Midlands Trains has demonstrated a continued commitment to improving services for passengers and from the start of the franchise in 2007 has made some significant improvements:
East Midlands Trains has also recently received Investors in People Status.
East Midlands Trains
East Midlands Trains, part of the Stagecoach Group, runs fast, frequent St Pancras International and key UK destinations throughout the East Midlands, including Leicester, Derby, Sheffield, Nottingham, Manchester and Liverpool.
East Midlands Trains is currently investing over GBP 40 million to improve stations across its network and every single passenger train within its fleet.
East Midlands Trains is committed to offering great value fares. Use the Best Fare Finder to search for and book and on more than 400 routes across the UK.
For further information about East Midlands Trains, visit eastmidlandstrains.co.uk. For a selection of East Midlands Trains images, visit .
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Stagecoach Group
Stagecoach Group is a leading international public transport group, with extensive operations in the UK, United States and Canada. The Group employs around 35,000 people, and operates bus, coach, train, and tram services.
Stagecoach is one of UK's biggest bus and coach operators with around 8,000 buses and coaches. Around 2.5 million passengers travel on Stagecoach's buses every day on a network stretching from south-west England to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The Group's business includes major city bus operations in London, Liverpool, Newcastle, Hull, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield and Cambridge. Low-cost coach service, megabus.com, operates between around 60 towns and cities across the UK.
Stagecoach is a major UK rail operator, running the South West Trains, Island Line and East Midlands Trains networks. It has a 49% shareholding in Virgin Rail Group, which operates the West Coast inter-city rail franchise.
Stagecoach also operates the Supertram light rail network in Sheffield.
In North America, Stagecoach operates around 2,900 buses and coaches in the United States and Canada. Megabus.com serves more than 100 cities in North America. Stagecoach is also involved in operating commuter and transit services, contracted bus services, charters, sightseeing tours and a small number of school bus services.
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