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...One person familiar with BAE’s thinking also points out that what was needed in recent years was a focus on bringing in orders — something that it has done under the leadership of Charles Woodburn....
...Chief engineer Charles Champion — a key figure in the development of the company’s new aircraft — has also retired....
...Mr King, who was succeeded by former oil services executive Charles Woodburn when he retired from BAE last week, is credited with having navigated the group through the defence industry downturn that led...
...In 2012, Mr King struggled to convince the market of the strategic benefits of joining forces with EADS, BAE’s European aerospace rival....
...Birmingham’s research programme, undertaken with western aerospace companies such as Airbus and EADS, ended before Bamtri’s inclusion on the US watchlist....
...The sale by Vnesheconombank comes amid signs that it plans to sell out completely of EADS to fund an increasingly costly foray into civilian aircraft....
...Charles Armitage, analyst at UBS, warns that a Eurofighter win in the UAE could lead to a spiral of unfortunate events by putting pressure on India over the Rafale fighters....
...And last but not least, European and French champions such as EADS and Safran will be actively recruiting young new engineers at the show, according to the organisers....
...For many, France looks most ripe for deals as it still has a patchwork of defence interests shared by Dassault, Thales, Safran and EADS....
...People close to the companies insist nothing is in the works, though a senior French aerospace executive adds: “Maybe something could happen after Serge Dassault relinquishes his grip, or Charles Edelstenne...
...“BAE and EADS came along at a moment when there was too much else preoccupying them.”...
...Dassault is a competitor to EADS even though EADS owns 46 per cent of the French company....
...It left little doubt about its opposition to the recent failed attempted tie up between EADS and BAE Systems, which would have formed a formidable competitor....
...The appointment was confirmed by Charles Edelstenne, chief executive of Dassault Aviation, which owns 26 per cent of Thales and also manages the French state’s 27 per cent holding in the company....
...It all seems a world away from 50 years ago this week, when Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer signed the Elysée treaty. This was no standard intergovernmental pact....
...De Castries, whose family has included a naval minister under Louis XVI and General Charles de Gaulle’s wartime ambassador to the US, says he chose the schools because he wanted to go into business or the...
...The prime minister replied that he had spent part of the conference trying to facilitate a combination of BAE Systems, Britain’s biggest defence company, with continental rival EADS to create a European...
...“We are not in a monarchy and he [Mr Enders] is not Prince [Charles, heir to the British throne] …[But] I do not expect big surprises. That is the only thing I am saying on that topic.”...
...Indeed, it competes directly with EADS both in combat aircraft and the new business of drones....
...Charles Edelstenne, Dassault’s chief executive, has said that the “potential for long-term growth in China is huge”....
...The so-called “black boxes” are essential to help determine what might have caused the crash of the twin-engined jet, built by Airbus, the European aircraft maker which is part of EADS....
...EADS, the European aircraft-making consortium, faced problems installing the 500 kms of electrical wiring in each of its Airbus 380s....
...Only one company in the CAC40 index – the EADS aerospace and defence group – has suspended its dividend pay-out when many more have held it steady or increased it....
...Charles Pybus, a defence expert at KPMG in New Delhi, says foreign companies will have to be ready for close co-operation with Indian defence contractors....
...- Charles Stanley Q2 revenue up 2.4 per cent to £26m — statement. - Provident Financial H1 PBT up 3.5 per cent to £53.1m — statement....
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