The Verney group manufactured many of the buses and autorails used on their bus routes and rail lines, autorails being built from 1922 and buses from 1934.  Under the direction of Francois Verney bodies were built on Panhard, Renault and Citroen chassis; these were followed by a rear-engined Citroen which took to the road in May 1940.

In 1956 the manufacturing activities were renamed Société des Automobiles et Matériels Verney, then formed into a separate company CBM Car et Bus le Mans from 1977.  CBM ceased all bus production in 1986 having strayed from their traditional rural and interurban bus market into the building of urban buses, a competitive market in which it was difficult to persuade established operators to change to a new supplier. Their legacy was the model 220B which was continued by Renault as the R212, and then later from 1989 by Heuliez as their model GX77H.  Now a parts supplier, CBM restyled itself as Car et Bus Maintenance.

CFIT - Compagnie Française et Industrielle de Transports

By the year 1977 the then six Verney operating subsidiaries were running some nineteen hundred vehicles between them. In April of the same year the Verney group became associated with the Michelin group when Transports Citroen was taken over by CFIT. At the time CFIT was jointly owned by the Michelin company and the Verney group (SCF). Yves-Michel Verney became President and Director-General. The Citroën networks were co-ordinated and integrated with those of Verney, which latter group found the Nantes network (which was retitled Compagnie des Transports de l'Atlantique) and the Angers network (which was retitled as Compagnie des Autocars d'Anjou) useful additions to its own existing substantial operations across the west of France, neatly filling gaps in the interurban network.

Tourisme Verney - following the acquisition of Transports Citroën the Verney travel agencies were grouped with CITER offering an integrated network of thirty six agencies as Nord-Sud Voyages, following the transfer of the CITER operating license. Coach tour programmes were developed by Tourisme Verney. All tours were arranged from a provincial town or region where the group had a coaching infrastructure. The agencies were therefore be used to sell these programs with a widening range of starting points. CITER / Nord-Sud Voyages took a dominant position in the tourism business: incentive travel, study, business travel and public relations, conferences, seminars and technical visits. In January 1990, the North-South name disappeared with all agencies hence under one banner: Verney.

Between 1978 and 1983, the Verney Group was in a difficult period with a restructuring policy leading to the closure or abandonment of lines of the interurban networks: Clermont Ferrand, Mulhouse, Lille, Saone-et-Loire. Numbers of staff fell from 2832 to 2248 and number of vehicles in the fleet from 1870 to 1609.

In Sarthe, 1983 saw the first agreement signed by STAO with the département for the operation of a departmental network of bus routes. The fleet comprised 1548 vehicles in 1998.  Calmer times returned between 1984 and 1990 when the group managed to stabilise its operations by starting to recover with major investments such as in the acquisition of 1200 vehicles (860 new) in six years.

Then in 1990 the group somewhat unexpectedly regained its independence and came again under the control of the Verney family, led by Yves-Michel Verney (grandson of Louis Verney); retaining the many routes of the former Transports Citroen (founded in 1931 by the manufacturer partly as a means of establishing a market for their own buses). 

Verney celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1991. As of January 1991, a regional and legal restructuring with a consolidation of subsidiaries leading to new network entities such as the CAA, CTA and CTE from Citroën. Moreover, we note that "vintage 1990" is a revival with external growth whereby the group acquires four companies (two in Brest and Clermont Ferrand, two others in Lyon and Strasbourg more important). They are included in the new regional structures. Lyon operations developed into Transports Verney Rhône Alpes - TVRA. There were 26 corporate buybacks between September 1990 and October 1998, which allowed the Group to maintain its independence while maintaining growth.

Creation of a new Verney-Ville operation allowed the group a place in the urban environment by differentiating the different types of passenger transport. In 1991, Verney had a presence at: Vannes, Fougères, Saumur, Saint-Lô, Sablé, Riom and Thiers. This does not exceed twenty-two vehicles per depot. Yves-Michel Verney insisted on an urban identity to gain recogniton for the group in this milieu where it was not well known.

On 1 July 1991, S.C.F. became G.T.V. (Compagnie Générale des Transports Verney): it was the new principal holding company of the Verney Group. G.T.V. It was the largest private family group in France with an energetic pursuit of business by the Verney family. Between 1991 and 1998 more than a dozen other operators were acquired around the country, including Rapides de Touraine in September 1994. Turnover evolved well between 1993 and 1997 but with stagnation over the last two years. For the Tourism division a drop in 1993 and 1994 followed by a definite stagnation.

Yves-Michel died in 1998 aged 63, a man of forthright and sometimes controversial opinions. His son Bruno took the reins until February 2002, when Verney was acquired by the Connex group.  This involved 2700 buses and coaches and 3300 staff, with operations principally in the Pays de la Loire, Bretagne and Normandie but also in Rhône-Alpes, the Paris region and Alsace. Connex is now known as Veolia.

(Compagnie Générale d'Entreprises Automobiles - CGEA - was founded in 1912 and became Connex in 1999. It bought the Verney Group in 2002, and in November 2005 Connex changed its name to Veolia Transport).