Blue Bird Corp

Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp, listed under ticker HCAC, was a blank-check company sponsored by Hennessy Capital Group that filed its S-1 registration statement in December 2013, targeting the industrial and transportation sectors. The SPAC subsequently completed a business combination with Blue Bird Corporation, a Fort Valley, Georgia-based manufacturer of school and commercial buses with a history dating to 1927, with the merger closing in early 2014. Blue Bird then began trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker BLBD. The deal stands as an early example of SPAC activity in the purpose-built commercial vehicle segment. Sign up on SpacDesk to access the full filing record, sponsor analytics, and deal timeline data for HCAC.