Finmeccanica is the main Italian industrial group operating globally in the aerospace, defence and security sectors. It is also one of the world's leading groups in the field of helicopters and defence electronics, as well as being the European leader for satellite and space services.
 
The Finmeccanica Group is based in Italy and has an extensive industrial base in the UK as well as important production facilities in the rest of Europe and in the USA. It is a dynamic, global company which dominates the domestic markets in Italy and the UK, and excels at an international level.
 
With a total workforce of about 58,000 people, the Group has a production value of around 12,5 billion euros.
 
Technology and innovation are the keystones of Finmeccanica's success and competitive edge. For this reason, the Group invests more than 1.7 billion euros a year in R&D activities (representing 14% of value of production), making Finmeccanica the leading Italian investor in hi-tech sectors. As far as the core business is concerned, investments amount to 20% of turnover, a percentage that is higher than some of its main competitors.
 
A large part of R&D investment is channelled into dual technology projects, leading to significant advantages in civil applications of considerable strategic importance. To maintain its leadership in hi-tech sectors, Finmeccanica focuses on the value of its human resources, and the laboratories of its subsidiaries are staffed by around 3,000 highly specialized researchers.
 
 

THE FUTURE IS THE QUESTION, KNOWLEDGE IS THE ANSWER

It is Finmeccanica's relentless commitment to research and the ability to translate it into real innovation that generates and increases competence.

It is competence that leads to the conquest of new markets, to establishing partnerships in the world and to progress in knowledge and results.

It is competence, again, that develops Finmeccanica's technologies and integrated systems, thus ensuring the security of a territory and of its inhabitants.

But progress in research, growth in competence and will, and in the ability to offer security, could not take place if it were not for people. People are at the centre of every company's activities, both as key players and as its primary reference points. In fact it is the employees that make a company great and its clients that make it dynamic, innovatory and profitable.

That's why Finmeccanica wanted to build its presence in the 2007 Bourget Air Show on these four concepts - competence, research, security, people - which, far from being abstract concepts, in its everyday's practice come together to guide its actions and inspire its behaviour.