Previous Owned Companies
As well as the shopping centre, Merry Hill also owned a bus company called Merry Hill Minibuses (formed in 1987) which was created to compete against then West Midlands Travel. It was created at that time to be the major form of public transport linking the surrounding areas with the shopping centre, of which approximately half had been opened by the time the service was launched (the first retailers had moved to the centre in 1985 and it was completed in 1989).
However, this was sold off to Travel West Midlands in 1998, and subsequently rebranded Travel Merry Hill, leaving Merry Hill Centre management to concentrate on the shopping centre itself.
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