Blue Bird Corp

Blue Bird Corporation, a Fort Valley, Georgia-based school bus manufacturer, reached public markets through its merger with Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: HCAC), a blank-check company sponsored by Hennessy Capital Group. The SPAC, which completed its IPO in 2013 and targeted the industrial transportation sector, closed its business combination with Blue Bird in 2014 in one of the earlier de-SPAC transactions of the modern SPAC era. The 8-K filed on March 13, 2024, under accession number 0001589526-24-000040, reflects continuing post-merger reporting obligations of the surviving entity. Blue Bird Corporation now trades on Nasdaq under the ticker BLBD. Sign up at SpacDesk for full filing histories, sponsor profiles, and deal data across the entire SPAC universe.