Airbus and Boeing Merger



Airbus and Boeing Merger

Boeing

Boeing is one the world's largest and important company, which has very significant role in the modern world and in the life of every person in the world. The Boeing Company designs, produces and sells its engines around the world. It provides the parts on leasing and services. The company is the largest air craft producer, is the next biggest defense & aerospace contractor in the globe based on 2012 profit generator. It is the largest dollar value exporter in the United States. The headquarters of this company are in Illinois and Chicago. The CEO and chairman of the company is James McNerney (Defense News, 2013). The company is divided into Boeing Shared, Boeing Capital, Boeing security, space, and defense, Operation and technology, Engineering, and Boeing Commercials Airplanes.

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Airbus

Airbus is a European aerospace company. It is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary. It started working based in France and with important activities around Europe. Airbus produces half of the total jet air liners in the world. The company started as group of aerospace manufacturer named as Airbus Industrie. Merger of European aerospace and defense organizations in 2000 and 1999 gave birth to the establishment of Joint venture in 2001, possessed by BAE system (20%) and EADS (80%). After a while, BAE sold its entire share to EADS in 2006. Airbus employees are about 63,000 at sixteen sites in four EUC: Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Final assembly production is done at Spain, Seville, Germany, Hamburg, France, Toulouse and since 2009, China, and Tianjin (Airbus.Inc, 2008). Airbus provides subsidiaries in India, China, Japan, and United States.

Discussion

 Competition between Boeing and Airbus has done as a largest producer in aerospace and defense industry market since the year of 1990. The result came from a number of mergers within international airline industry with Airbus starting as group of Europe while the Boeing of America immersed its former opponent, Douglas in 1997 joint venture. Rest producers such as Convair and Lockheed Martin in British Aerospace and United States, Fokker and Dornier in Europe, were no more in position to make competition effectively and pull out from the market.

The profits of both the ...