Airbus and its background
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Corporate Strategy Module leader: Module tutor: Airbus and its background 1. Introduction: Airbus is one of the five EADS' strategic business units. The four other ones are: military transport aircraft, aeronautics, space, defence and security systems. For this study, we will only focus on Airbus and military transport aircraft (including Airbus Military) SBU. Airbus was born in 1970 as a European consortium of French, German and later, Spanish and U.K companies. Today, Airbus is the first suppliers of commercial aircraft. Its main competitor on this market is Boeing. Airbus is an EADS joint company with BAE SYSTEMS. It is owned 80 per cent by EADS and 20 per cent by BAE SYSTEMS of UK. If we want to understand Airbus we have to focus on the strategy of its main shareholder, that is to say EADS, a company resulting from the merger between Aerospatiale Matra SA of France, Daimler Chrysler Aerospace AG of Germany and Construcciones...

