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.

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. [...]

KAZAKHSTAN 18/10/2017

Airbus' helicopter sales channels in Astana under scrutiny 

The Kazakh-gate legal investigation underway in Paris has lifted the lid on the consultants Airbus used to get in with the government in Astana in 2009. [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 04/10/2017

Former airbus man joins Thales 

Pascal Lesaulnier, who was a long-standing sales agent for Airbus [...]

FRANCE RUSSIA 04/10/2017

Bokarev leads Alstom in Central Asia 

Andrei Bokarev, the powerful Russian magnate who heads the rail company Transmashholding and is close to the Kremlin, is extending his influence into Central Asia, much to the benefit of his French partner Alstom. [...]

FRANCE UNITED KINGDOM 20/09/2017

PNF, SFO join forces on Oberthur probe 

According to our sources, France's Parquet National Financier (PNF) and its British equivalent, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), are working [...]

FRANCE 20/09/2017

Ichikowitz gets hands on last Mirage F1 

The last four Mirage F1 left French soil at the beginning of September after their acquisition in June by the [...]

AFRICAUNITED ARAB EMIRATES FRANCE 06/09/2017

Couriol's offshore finance high-wire act for CAC 40 companies 

Airbus in Mali, LVMH in Panama, Creduit Suisse on Russia: Olivier Couriol has been involved in some of the most audacious investment deals by major European companies. [...]

Spotlight FRANCE 23/08/2017

SFO, PNF Airbus probes: Former French PM comes to the rescue 

Law firms and consulting firms have plenty to keep them occupied with the many anti-corruption investigations into the European aeronautical and defence group's business dealings. [...]

BELGIUM FRANCE KAZAKHSTAN 23/08/2017

Ablyazov's secret lobbying against Chodiev 

According to our sources, Mukhtar Ablyazov, the dissident Kazakh oligarch, has been in contact with the Belgian parliamentary commission that [...]