Chance Coach Inc. (1976–2003) Optima Bus Corporation (2003-2007)
Industry
Bus manufacturing
Founded
1976 (as Chance Coach Inc.)
Defunct
2010
Headquarters
Wichita, Kansas
Products
Transit buses
Parent
American Capital Strategies (1998-2006) NABI, Inc. (2006-2010)
Website
www.optimabus.com (archived link)
Optima Bus, LLC, formerly Chance Coach Inc., was a brand of small transit buses manufactured by North American Bus Industries. It was established in 1976 in Wichita, Kansas.
It was originally the trolley-replica and conventional bus production business of Chance Industries, Inc. In 1998, Chance Coach, Inc. was sold to American Capital Strategies,[1] which rebranded the company as Optima Bus Corporation in 2003.[2] American Capital subsequently sold Optima to North American Bus Industries, who closed the Kansas assembly plant on August 8, 2007, with production moved to their existing plant in Anniston, Alabama.[3] Optima Bus was owned by North American Bus Industries, Inc.[4] until 2010, when NABI discontinued the production of its Optima and Blue Bird brand commercial bus products.
^Conkling, Judy (15 March 1998). "Chance Coach sold to Maryland firm". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
^Dinell, David, "Chance Coach Inc. will be renamed Optima Bus Corp." Wichita Business Journal, January 15, 2003.
^www.kansas.com
^"Home". optimabus.com.
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