The company retained the red and cream livery as well as the Alexanders (Fife) legal address, however it adopted a group standard logo consisting of three-quarters of a blue saltire between the words 'Fife' and 'Scottish'.

[6] The SBG corporate fleet name style was retained, albeit printed in an unusually large size and placed on buses painted with larger areas of cream.

[citation needed] Competitive bids were placed to buy the company, with Fife Scottish's employees led by managing director Derek Stuart offering to perform either a management buyout or an employee share ownership plan as 'Henjac 171', while fast-growing Perth independent Stagecoach Holdings, who had already purchased former SBG subsidiary Bluebird Northern, also placed a bid to buy the company outright.

[11][12] The Henjac team went to the Court of Session in Edinburgh in an attempt to make Ian Lang reconsider his views on Staegcoach's bid, and although an appeal for an interim interdict was rejected, the sale to Stagecoach was blocked when the Scottish Transport Group agreed not to sell Fife Scottish to Stagecoach Holdings until the hearing into the sale was concluded.

[16] However, it was subsequently ruled by Lord Coulsfield that no grounds had been established by Henjac to justify a judicial review of Ian Lang's decision,[17] and ultimately, Fife Scottish was purchased by Stagecoach Holdings for £9.1 million (equivalent to £24,676,000 in 2023).