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...I don’t know why: there was amazement in Whitehall that he was doing that.”...
...The boss is poorly concealing her intense attraction to paramedic Laurence with a fusillade of insults of which “knob’ead” is the mildest....
...After his death in 2003, bitter feuding nearly paralysed the company, then known as EADS. Worse, by 2016 Airbus was being investigated for corruption going back to 2008....
...As it turns out, second-best wasn’t sitting too well with America’s largest retailer....
...“We hadn’t integrated where it counted and that led to major problems with the development and the production of the A380,” he said....
...— You can’t come to Cornwall without trying a classic pasty. I love its heritage....
...His influence was on show in 2012 when, as the largest shareholder in FTSE 100 defence company BAE Systems, Mr Woodford spoke out against its planned merger with EADS, the owner of Airbus....
...If you don’t know how insurance works, it is difficult to assess which premium to pay. If you don’t understand interest rates, you can’t choose the right mortgage....
...The challenge for the company is to transform the A320 production system, but the suppliers can’t manage a further ramp-up at present.”...
...But don’t bet on it. The summit could go terribly wrong. It is clear that Paris and Berlin have diametrically opposed views about what the future of the EU should look like....
...Airbus is a pan-European success story that began as a consortium of national aerospace manufacturers which crystallised as a company under the ownership of the Franco-German EADS (now renamed Airbus) and...
...Judy Stephenson London SW16, UK Letter in response to this letter: For ‘the US federal state’ read ‘the US people’ / From Bradley R Larschan, Eads, TN, US...
...It hasn’t been easy explaining a company where all employees must sign the Official Secrets Act, or its equivalent....
...Didn’t enjoy your meal? Then call this complaints hotline and brave a stream of invective from a top chef such as Gordon Ramsay or Marco Pierre-White....
...Asked about the striker’s engine on Wednesday, Lt Gen Arnold Bunch said: “We won’t go into any details relative to specific components or subcontractors due to classification and enhanced security.”...
...“We don’t have to rely on suppliers, although of course we buy in components when that is advantageous.” About 500 people now work for SSTL, which has an annual turnover close to £100m....
...How about EADS and BAE? Never got off the ground. AOL Time Warner? Don’t even go there. Some deals that are called mergers work, of course....
...“If we can’t get the cost down in the coming years and get the synergies, then this will not have been the last restructuring in this for this area,” he said, adding that he was being proactive....
...Increasingly, says Ms Quintana, it is a question of: “Either you go to the Israelis for it, or you go to the US – or you don’t go at all.”...
...So it has proved: EADS is poised to close the Paris office, next to the Bois de Boulogne. Consolidating head offices doesn’t really amount to a hill of beans in the crazy world EADS inhabits....
...Export orders help, of course, but don’t change fundamentally this picture,” he added....
...Export orders help, of course, but don’t change fundamentally this picture.” He said the restructuring “won’t happen without hard measures”....
...“If a new tool is invented it doesn’t mean all your other tools go away.” Some of the main factors holding back mass 3D printing are the costs involved....
...“I won’t trade long-term health for short-term help,” Mr Clarke said. The deepening sales decline will do nothing to ease the pressure on Mr Clarke and Laurie McIlwee, finance director....
...EADS must now secure more export customers – it has Malaysia so far – to recoup some of the European nations’ outlays and bring the programme into the black for EADS....
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