EADS

France, Iran, United States
US, France duke it out for Iranian business

The relaxing of US sanctions against Iran for six months has led to fresh trade rivalry between American and French companies.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 05.02.2014

Kazakhstan
EADS satellite launch planned

Two optical satellites that Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary ordered from EADS [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 05.02.2014

China, United States
Washington hunts Beijing's suppliers

The United States is in hot pursuit of European and Israeli companies that sell dual use components to China.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 22.01.2014

Spain
Grant Rogan

Grant Rogan, a major player in the global offset business [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 22.01.2014

France
Airbus' China agents angry

Hesham Syllan, a Turkish businessman who is active in China, [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 22.01.2014

France
No buyer for "Bullshit Castle"

The building that houses the officers of EADS' Strategy & [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 22.01.2014

Insiders | Middle East, United Kingdom
Grant Rogan, architect of Gulf mega-contracts

Chief executive of Blenheim Capital Partners since its foundation in 2006, Grant Rogan has been active in the Gulf since the 1980s. His father, Richard Grant Rogan, was already a connoisseur of the region. Middle East director of Northrop Grumman in the 1970s, he was a regular contact of Adnan Khashoggi, the famous Saudi arms dealer.

Subscribers only 21.01.2014

Grant Rogan, PDG de Blenheim Capital Partners.

France, Saudi Arabia
Hollande returns empty-handed from Riyadh

The spectacular rapprochement between France's Socialist government and Saudi Arabia (IOL 695) has yet to translate into actual business deals.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 08.01.2014

Europe
Regulators close in on cyber-security

Cyber-security start-ups are worried that tougher export regulations are poised to deprive them of foreign funding and hamper external growth opportunities.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 18.12.2013

Insiders | France, Middle East
Omar Zeidan, the doyen of Franco-Arabian deal-makers

Omar Zeidan is one of the best-connected among the established agents of French industry in the Arab world. He is [...]

Subscribers only 05.12.2013

Europe
Enders targets "bullshit castle"

EADS' reorganisation under the Airbus brand has likely signed the death warrant of the marketing & strategy unit, or SMO, the light cavalry of the group's major export programmes.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 04.12.2013

United Kingdom
Rolls-Royce in arbitration with agent

In the wake of Rolls-Royce's recent review of its Middle East agents' contracts (IOL 694), one of them, Qatar-based Jean-Paul [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 04.12.2013

Saudi Arabia
Al-Thomad, private ambassador to the Saudi court

Owned by the brothers of King Abdullah's influential chief of staff Khaled Al-Tuwaijri, the Saudi conglomerate Al-Thomad is a favourite partner for foreign groups.

Subscribers only 04.12.2013

France, United Arab Emirates
Emirates: behind scenes of Falcon Eye deal

A consultancy based in Toulouse, south-western France, is helping Abu Dhabi negotiate some of the trickier aspects of its French observation satellite deal.