ALPINE TRAVEL A STORY OF STEADY GROWTH

MALCOLM COWTAN meets Alpine Travel managing director Chris Owens, learns how he manages this Llandudno-based family business and hears his thoughts on why it has succeeded in avoiding the fate that has finished off four other prominent North Wales independents in recent years

Added to the Alpine fleet last year was 15m Plaxton Panther-bodied Volvo B12BT BP56 ALP, new to Stagecoach North Scotland as its 54011 (SV56 BWE) and subsequently with A. C. Williams in Lincolnshire. Alpine has reconfigured it as a 71-seater following removal of the toilet.
PAUL SAVAGE

Alpine Travel has always been a big part of Chris Owens’s life. He grew up with the company founded in 1972 by his parents Bryan and Pat, and for the past 10 years or so he has run it.

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