EADS CASA and EUROCOPTER sign an agreement to set up EUROCOPTER ESPAÑA
Getafe, 22 September 2000
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Mr. Alberto FERNANDEZ, President and CEO of EADS-CASA and Mr. Jean-Francois BIGAY, President and CEO of EUROCOPTER recently signed an agreement to establish EUROCOPTER ESPAÑA.
On September 28, 2000, this new EUROCOPTER subsidiary with CASA participation will take over from HESA, the first EUROCOPTER representative established in Spain. After a preliminary build-up period, it will be fully operational by early 2001. Eurocopter Espana will be based south of Madrid, in Cuatro Vientos.
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This new subsidiary has been set up mainly so that EUROCOPTER will be better placed to ensure greater customer satisfaction over the next ten years, to meet the growing market requirements more efficiently, to reinforce industrial agreements in high tech fields and to create real opportunities for helicopters to be exported from Spain. EUROCOPTER ESPANA will be the third company in the Group after the French and German companies.
Moreover, with this new subsidiary, the entire spectrum of helicopter activities from engineering to customer support and Including production will be integrated into a Spanish company.
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The vocation of this new subsidiary will also be to play an active part in multinational programs such as the TIGER program in association with Eurocopter Tiger, the NH90 program in association with NHI, the Tilt Rotor program in association with the Eurotilt consortium, and any future Eurocopter program. Finally, this subsidiary will be a base from which helicopters will be exported to other countries.
Eurocopter is a hundred percent subsidiary of EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company). EADS was formed in July 2000 following the merger of Dasa, Aerospatiale Matra and the Spanish company CASA and has thus become one of the three leading aerospace companies in the world.
For further information, please contact:
Jean Louis ESPES
Tel: +33 (0)4 42 85 95 55
Fax: +33(0)442859564
Eurocopter
Aéroport International Marseille Provence
13725 Marignane Cedex - France
Francisco SALIDO
Tel: +34 91 5857437
Fax: +34 91 5557457
EADS CASA
Avda. de Aragon 404
28022 Madrid - Spain
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