Eurocopter Flies to €6.3 Billion Turnover; Customer Support Activity Exceeds Production

摘要

With the self-assured confidence that is the hallmark of Eurocopter's president and chief executive officer, Lutz Bertling, announced at the company's annual media gathering in Paris, France this January that yet another Houdini act had been achieved in 2012. While Eurocopter's overall helicopter deliveries continued their steady decline from a high of 588 in 2008, dropping to 475 in 2012, revenues hit an all time high of €6.3 billion, or approximately $8.4 billion USD (a growth of 15 percent on the €5.4 billion achieved in 2011). There has been an average turnover growth rate of 9 percent since Bertling took over the company from Fabrice Bregier in 2006.