The step beyond
3 min. 43 sec.  | Windows Media
|
Anticipating tomorrow's needs in aerospace and defence
Ottobrunn in the near of Munich
EADS
81663 Munich
Germany
Location
Willy-Messerschmitt-Straße
85521 Ottobrunn
Germany
Tel.: + 49 89 607 0
Paris
EADS France S.A.S.
37, boulevard de Montmorency
75781 Paris, Cedex 16
France
Tel.: +33 1 42 24 24 24
The step beyond
3 min. 43 sec. | Windows Media
|
EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. The Group includes the aircraft manufacturer Airbus, the world's largest helicopter supplier Eurocopter and EADS Astrium, the European leader in space programmes from Ariane to Galileo. Its Defence & Security Division is a provider of comprehensive systems solutions and makes EADS the major partner in the Eurofighter consortium as well as a stakeholder in the missile systems provider MBDA. EADS also develops the A400M through its Military Transport Aircraft Division.
Corresponding to the product range, the company is subdivided into five Divisions: Airbus, Eurocopter, Astrium, Military Transport Aircraft, Defence & Security.
EADS employs about 116,000 people at more than 70 production sites, above all in France, Germany, Great Britain and Spain as well as in the U.S. and Australia. A global network of more than 30 Representative Offices maintains contact with the customers. In 2007, the company generated revenues of € 39.1 billion.
Rüdiger Grube, Member of the Board of Daimler AG, is Chairman of the Board of Directors. EADS has an integrated headquarters with central functions of the company, located in Munich and Paris under the direction of the Chief Executive Officer Louis Gallois.
EADS, an N.V. according to Dutch company law, is listed on the Frankfurt, Madrid and Paris stock exchanges. Following ongoing transactions of the core shareholders, 49.5 percent of the shares will be widely distributed among public shareholders including EADS employees; Daimler AG and SOGEADE (Lagardère, French state) will hold 22.5 percent each, the Spanish state holding company SEPI (Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales) owns 5.5 percent. EADS emerged in 2000 from the link-up of the German DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG, the French Aerospatiale Matra and CASA of Spain.
