Societe Industrielle D'aviation Latecoere SA - LAT- Profile

Societe Industrielle d'Aviation Latecoere SA. The Group's principal activity is to manufacture aeronautic equipment and parts for the space industry. The Group operates under two major segments, airframe structures and equipment and systems. Airframe structures include the fuselage, wing structure elements and nacelle structure elements. Equipment and systems include on-board electric racks, harnesses, landscape video camera system, pilot control panels, battery charge limiters, human centrifuge, air combat instrumentation system, patch for automatic test equipment, Ariane 4 cryogenic arms, Ariane 5 ground interface. Some of their major clients are Airbus, Dassault, Snecma and Bombardier. In 2005 the Group acquired Societe Landaise d'Electronique and 70% of Latecoere Aerostructures. The Group operates in Europe, North America and Asia. Airframe Structure accounted for 74% of 2005 revenues and Equipment and Systems, 26%