Who owns TBR Global Chauffeuring?
TBR Global Chauffeuring is owned by Lyft (the United States, NASDAQ: LYFT), which has owned the brand since 2025.[1]
Evidence: Lyft, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-11, SEC EDGAR, 11 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Lyft, Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, San Francisco
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online commerce › Ride-hailing
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: LYFT
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About TBR Global Chauffeuring
TBR Global Chauffeuring is the trade name of TheBookingRoomGroup Limited, a global luxury chauffeuring company that Lyft acquired in October 2025. Lyft's 10-K describes it as a chauffeuring business operating in thousands of cities worldwide. It sits beside the Lyft and Freenow apps as the premium, pre-booked chauffeur end of the group's transport services, rather than an on-demand taxi or rideshare product.
What Lyft's annual report says about TBR Global Chauffeuring
Sentences about TBR Global Chauffeuring from Lyft's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In October 2025, we acquired TheBookingRoomGroup Limited (d/b/a TBR Global Chauffeuring, or "TBR"), a global luxury chauffeuring company that operates in thousands of cities worldwide.
Acquisitions Acquisition of TBR Global Chauffeuring On October 14, 2025, the Company completed the acquisition of 100 % of the outstanding equity of TheBookingRoomGroup Limited (d/b/a TBR Global Chauffeuring or "TBR"), a global premium ground transportation and chauffeur service company, for a total purchase price of 86.4 million ($ 115.2 million), inclusive of an immaterial amount of contingent consideration.
How often Lyft names TBR Global Chauffeuring in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of TBR Global Chauffeuring
Where TBR Global Chauffeuring sits in Lyft
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Other brands owned by Lyft
Lyft controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in ride-hailing, and who owns them
Lyft has more brands in ride-hailing on Brandtree than any other owner: 3 of 16.
About the owner: Lyft
Lyft is a publicly listed company headquartered in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2012. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: LYFT.
Lyft, Inc. is a San Francisco ridesharing company whose 10-K says its ridesharing marketplace launched in 2012 and that it changed its name to Lyft, Inc. in 2013. In 2025 it widened beyond North America by acquiring Intelligent Apps GmbH, which trades as Freenow, in July and TheBookingRoomGroup Limited, which trades as TBR Global Chauffeuring, in October. It also rents cars to drivers through its subsidiary Flexdrive Services, LLC (the Express Drive programme) and runs shared bikes and scooters; those are not listed as separate brands here.
🇬🇧 TBR Global Chauffeuring and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 543 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 282 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, TBR Global Chauffeuring among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of TBR Global Chauffeuring?
The parent company of TBR Global Chauffeuring is Lyft, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is TBR Global Chauffeuring British or American?
TBR Global Chauffeuring originated in the United Kingdom, but it is owned today by Lyft, which is headquartered in the United States. So TBR Global Chauffeuring is a British-origin brand under American ownership.
Since when has Lyft owned TBR Global Chauffeuring?
Lyft has owned TBR Global Chauffeuring since 2025.
Is TBR Global Chauffeuring still owned by Lyft?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, TBR Global Chauffeuring is still owned by Lyft. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Lyft, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-11 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 11 February 2026; retrieved 2 October 2026.
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