EADS has appointed Good Relations as its retained political affairs consultancy with a brief to provide a whole-service solution to EADS Group’s business divisions operating in the UK including Airbus, EADS Astrium, Eurocopter, EADS Defence and Security and EADS Test and Services.
Good Relations, part of the Bell Pottinger Group, won the business following a competitive pitch process based on its knowledge of the sector and the breadth of the team’s experience.
Bell Pottinger Group Director and former No 10 Director of Communications David Hill will lead the account, working alongside Good Relations Director Estelle McCartney who has worked with Airbus on UK Government Relations since 2004.
EADS is Europe’s largest aerospace and defence company. The UK is one of the company’s four home nations with France, Germany and Spain. EADS employs more than 14,500 people throughout the UK and has a UK turnover of nearly £2 billion. EADS is the UK’s largest commercial aerospace company and the largest UK civil aerospace exporter. It is also the UK’s number one space and satellite company and is this country’s second largest aerospace and defence employer.
Andrew Hargreaves, EADS Group Director of Government Affairs, said “EADS is committed to the UK aerospace & defence market and has world-beating technology, with the UK being a key part of the company’s highly-skilled, high-tech industrial base. Good Relations is ideally placed to help us reach out to our key stakeholders across the diversity of our group and its technologies.”
Estelle McCartney, Director, Good Relations said: “EADS has a major footprint in the UK and an exciting contribution to make across a wide range of areas including skills, the future of high value manufacturing, innovation and the environment. We look forward to working with all parts of EADS to support its relationship with UK political stakeholders. This is a highly prestigious account.”
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EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2008, EADS generated revenues of € 43.3 billion and employed a workforce of about 118,000. The Group includes Airbus as the leading manufacturer of commercial aircraft, with Airbus Military covering tanker, transport and mission aircraft, Eurocopter as the world's largest helicopter supplier and EADS Astrium, the European leader in space programmes from Ariane to Galileo. Its Defence & Security Division is a provider of comprehensive systems solutions and makes EADS the major partner in the Eurofighter consortium as well as a stakeholder in the missile systems provider MBDA.
For further information please contact:
Malcolm Munro, Director, Good Relations: 0207 7861 3217 / 07795 013006
