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Thales

Thales is a defense electronics company in aerospace and defense industries. It came into being with the merger of Alcatel, Dassault Electronic and Thomson CSF and inherited the latter company’s naval activity, which it has developed in recent years. Thales now operates in 50 countries and has become a leading player in the defense industry.

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Spotlight FRANCE 04/12/2013

Fabius's French peace-keeping PPP

Since May 2012, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius has had the Quai d'Orsay working to help French business win new contracts and he is currently trying to do the same thing in Mali where he is lobbying to have MINUSMA, [. [...]

EUROPE 04/12/2013

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. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 04/12/2013

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 [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 04/12/2013

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. [...]

Spotlight SAUDI ARABIA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 20/11/2013

Discreet race for drones

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are going all-out to equip themselves with armed drones, in case the US and Iran reconcile, to their cost (IOL 696). Tehran's own drone programmes are fairly well advanced and the Gulf monarchies [. [...]

FRANCE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 20/11/2013

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. [...]

MIDDLE EAST 20/11/2013

Cassidian feels jinxed

The electronics and defence affiliate of EADS, Cassidian, is enduring a rough patch in the Middle East. The group is [...]

FRANCE 20/11/2013

Protecting government phones from NSA

In the wake of the Snowden affair a handful of French tech companies are working on telephone and text message security. [...]

FRANCE MIDDLE EAST 06/11/2013

Amesys looks for boom in Gulf

Like its American rivals, Amesys, the security arm of the Bull electronics group and a regular subcontractor of French agencies, [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 23/10/2013

Luc Vigneron

Luc Vigneron, CEO of Thales between 2009-2012, has tip-toed back [...]

Insiders MIDDLE EAST 23/10/2013

The Al Kaabi family, operating arm of the Emir of Abu Dhabi

Fadel Al Kaabi, formerly of the Tawazun sovereign fund, set up the International Golden Group (IGG) in 2002. The company, which is headed by Fadel's uncle, former armed forces deputy chief of staff Mohammed Hilal Al Kaabi, specialises in partnerships with Western defence groups like France's Thales, Britain's BAE, Paramount of South Africa and Italy's Selex. [...]

Spotlight EUROPEMIDDLE EAST 09/10/2013

Paris chases double whammy in Gulf

In the wake of the Falcon Eye contract that Thales and EADS landed in the United Arab Emirates on July 22, Paris has shifted into higher gear to sell another military observation satellite in the region, this time to Saudi [. [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES EUROPE 09/10/2013

A bruising setback for EADS

Not every affiliate of Europe's EADS defense group is popping the champagne corks in the United Arab Emirates at the [...]

Spotlight SAUDI ARABIA UNITED STATES 25/09/2013

Riyadh rethinks military without US

US moves in the region in the past couple of years have prompted some serious thought in Saudi Arabia: Despite the two countries' alliance, would Barack Obama intervene militarily if the Saudi monarchy came under threat? [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES EUROPEUNITED STATES 25/09/2013

Satellites: for a few centimetres less

Commercial satellite operators are fighting to convince governments to allow them to sell lower resolution imagery. [...]

FRANCE KURDISTAN 25/09/2013

Boris Boillon’s missions in Erbil

The probe into the cash that former French ambassador Boris Boillon was carrying when he was stopped by customs on [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 25/09/2013

Gordon Rainey

Gordon Rainey and Simon King, two former staffers of Pelorus [...]

Spotlight UNITED KINGDOM 28/08/2013

Rolls-Royce overhauls sales practices

Rolls-Royce has long been renowned for its aggressive and somewhat "creative" commercial practices but, now under scrutiny, the car and aircraft engine manufacturer is having to rethink the way its agents work. A review the company is making under its [. [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 24/07/2013

Thales and Astrium’s partners

One of many questions that remains unanswered in the wake [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 24/07/2013

Astrium won - or did Digital Globe lose? Free

The French defence ministry has insistently trumpeted minister Jean-Yves Le Drian's role in EADs Astrium and Thales Alenia Space obtaining [...]

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