Business Thales secures Top 20 ranking in annual Flight International report Thales secures Top 20 ranking in annual Flight International report
Flight International have just published their Top 100 ranking of worldwide aerospace players. Thales is ranked in 11th place, up one on last year’s rating.
The ranking is based on the financial performance of each company. Flight International also adds a thumbnail analysis of each company’s situation. Regarding Thales, the magazine notes that “profitability has been an issue at Thales, but a push to better co-ordinate sales and engineering may cut costs and help keep projects on track. The Paris-headquartered company is driving hard to be a technology leader, too, with a creative array of integrated cockpit, navigation and in-flight entertainment concepts.”
The top 20 in Flight International’s Top 100:
1. Boeing
2. EADS
3. Lockheed Martin
4. General Dynamics
5. United Technologies
6. Northrop Grumman
7. Raytheon
8. Finmeccanica
9. General Electric
10. Safran
11. Thales
12. Rolls-Royce
13. L-3
14. Honeywell
15. BAE Systems
16. Bombardier
17. Textron
18. Goodrich
19. Embraer
20. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
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Illustration: detail from cover of Flight International report, credited to Gareth JJ Burgess
