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BAE Systems and EADS couldn't get the terms they needed from European governments to move ahead with their proposed merger, so the deal is now dead. BAE Chief Executive Ian King said throughout the process that it was an opportunity rather than a necessity, which certainly rings true: companies
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10/10/2012
Merger discussions between BAE Systems and European aerospace giant EADS are rapidly approaching a climax. Despite weeks of intensive media coverage, though, one of the most important factors bearing upon the valuation of the two companies has barely been mentioned. That factor is commercial-transport
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10/5/2012
Last week's disclosure that BAE Systems and EADS are in merger discussions has predictably sparked concerns among shareholders and stakeholders. Their fears can't be allayed until the two parties agree on all the details, but it is already clear why the companies think a combination makes sense.
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9/17/2012
Monday's announcement by Airbus parent EADS that it will set up commercial-transport production in Alabama presents Boeing with a major problem. Although the two rivals have been competing globally for decades, this is the first time the European company has proposed to establish a manufacturing
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7/3/2012
European aerospace giant EADS did American taxpayers and warfighters a big favor today by deciding not to protest its recent loss of the Air Force's tanker competition. As EADS North America Chairman Ralph D. Crosby put it in a press release, "We will not take any action that could further delay
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3/4/2011
Industry insiders say that Boeing clinched the hard-fought battle for the Air Force's next-generation tanker last week by offering a rock-bottom price while rival EADS failed to bid as aggressively. Boeing had an intrinsic pricing advantage because it offered a smaller plane that cost much less
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3/1/2011
The Air Force will announce the winner of the $35 billion KC-X tanker contract on Thursday, February 24 after financial markets close. Judging from the frequency with which Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter has been talking up the notion of a "globalized" defense market recently, European
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2/22/2011
The World Trade Organization today released a final ruling on commercial transport subsidies received by Boeing. The ruling will remain confidential until translated into variety of languages, so only the parties to the case brought by European governments have seen it. However, the ruling probably
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1/31/2011
Last week, U.S. aerospace giant Boeing and its European counterpart, EADS, submitted proposals to supply the Air Force's next-generation aerial-refueling tanker. The service plans to buy 179 modified commercial transports in the first phase of a multi-decade program that eventually will replace
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7/12/2010
The United States has lost an average of over a thousand manufacturing jobs every day since the new millennium began. Most of those losses resulted not from productivity gains or other positive trends, but rather from America's decline as a manufacturing power. During the last 30 years, the portion
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5/20/2010
There has been a lot of loose talk recently about the possibility that Airbus parent EADS might bid in the latest round of tanker competition even without former partner Northrop Grumman in order to establish a bigger "footprint" in the U.S. military market or make a favorable impression on Pentagon
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4/12/2010
This week the normally thoughtful, balanced, even sophisticated journal The Economist published a piece on the decision by Northrop Grumman and EADS to withdraw from the competition for a new U.S. aerial refueling tanker. The headline was “The Best Plane Lost.” The publication asserted that
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3/19/2010