Airbus Group

The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has carved a place for itself internationally as an alternative to Boeing thanks to the success of the A330, the A350 and the A380. The company is a merger of French, German and Spanish aircraft makers. As well as its civil activity it has military projects such as Eurofighter Typhoon, in partnership with BAE Systems, the A400M transport aircraft and also combat and transport helicopters. The company also has space programmes.

EUROPE 25/07/2018

Airbus Group: Enders launches witch-hunt 

Increasingly upset by leaks in the press about the anti-corruption [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 25/07/2018

Forensic Risk Alliance nabs KPMG associate 

Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA), Toby Duthie‘s computer forensics firm, has [...]

FRANCE 25/07/2018

Shakeup underway at French defense brokers 

Industrial advisers to the Elysee Palace and the defence ministry will spend the coming weeks fleshing out a plan to restructure France's military export offices. [...]

Spotlight FRANCE ITALY QATAR 11/07/2018

Mood of suspicion behind scenes of Fincantieri-Naval Group merger plan 

The intelligence services are keeping a watchful eye on the arranged marriage that the Elysee Palace has been encouraging between the big French and Italian shipyards. [...]

SINGAPORE 11/07/2018

Thales goes all out to land satellite order 

The French company is hoping that Singapore will become the first country to buy its new high-end observation satellites. It is lining up its troops to secure a deal. [...]

KAZAKHSTAN 27/06/2018

KAI builds drones for Nursultan Nazarbayev 

State-owned Kazakhstan Aviation Industry recently signed a cooperation deal that will enable it to develop its own drones. [...]

Spotlight FRANCE 13/06/2018

New Space revolution a blow to French GEOINT companies 

The shake-up of the satellite imagery market that started in the US is making its effects felt on the French Geospatial-Intelligence (GEOINT) sector. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 30/05/2018

Lord Gold, Airbus' man, joins UK Bribery Act committee 

The House of Lords announced the establishment of a committee that will review the 2010 UK Bribery Act on May [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 02/05/2018

Imad Lahoud helps Airbus partner Atlas Aerospace fly high 

After a turbulent time in the headlines in France, Imad Lahoud is recovering nicely in Abu Dhabi in the shadow of the Al Mutawaa family's Atlas Group. [...]

FRANCE 02/05/2018

After Alstom, and while the Airbus affair plays out, French economic intelligence takes baby steps 

First French MPs and now the administration is grappling with how best to organise economic intelligence. [...]

SAUDI ARABIA FRANCE 11/04/2018

Turbulence ahead for Thales in Riyadh 

French defence group Thales has been experiencing some difficulty of late in Riyadh. The arrival of former Airbus Group executive [...]

FRANCE 28/02/2018

Argenson speeds up ODAS' transformation 

Daniel Argenson, the new president of ODAS, the French military exports agency dedicated to Saudi Arabia, has begun ringing the [...]

FRANCE KUWAIT 28/02/2018

Farid Abdelnour, Airbus' interface in Kuwait 

Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French foreign minister, visited Kuwait City on February 12-13, a few days after Kuwait's Public Anti-Corruption [...]

FRANCE 28/02/2018

Storm clouds gather over French ISR 

New French intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft are a key component of the next military appropriations bill. But building them is proving to be fraught with problems. [...]

Spotlight CHINA 17/01/2018

Beijing pursues plan to dominate GEOINT sector 

China intends to profit from the shake-up in the satellite imagery sector in Western countries to get its hands on American know-how and develop its own capacities. [...]

FRANCE 27/12/2017

Faury to be France's man at Airbus Group 

In taking over shortly as chief operating officer of Airbus Group, Guillaume Faury, will assume a role he has unofficially [...]

FRANCE 27/12/2017

Paris supports Naval Group & Airbus to crack Latin America market  Free

France rolled out its goods at the Expodefensa arms fair (organized by the French trade association GICAT) in Bogota in [...]

EUROPE 27/12/2017

Enders can still count on Montrose Associates 

Under extreme pressure, Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders finds himself [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 15/11/2017

SAMI emerges as big winner from Mohammed bin Salman's purge 

Far from the political upheavals of the multiple arrests on November 4, behind the scenes, new deal-making channels are being put in place at Saudi Arabia's new defence hub. [...]

Spotlight FRANCE 18/10/2017

Airbus: Enders plays ball with investigators, Elysee Palace frets 

Airbus Group has so far refused to invoke the French "blocking statute", which prohibits the disclosure of information to foreign public authorities. [...]