粗暴的英国航空航天公司老板John Weston要求担任Marconi财务主管多年的金先生来把握这个合并公司的战略。后续的几个运营管理角色接踵而来,最终让金先生掌握了除美国以外的几乎所有业务。到了任命新的首席执行官的时候,金先生在Marconi公司工作的背景也为他加分。英国航空航天公司在1985年做成第一单al- Yamamah生意,它海盗般的文化和GEC截然不同,金先生说,在GEC,Weinstock阁下一直都以最高的商业行为标准来要求他们。
After nearly a decade of steadily growing profits and armed with a strong balance-sheet, BAEis in many ways in good shape. But the next few years are likely to be more testing. With theexception of Saudi Arabia, where the firm has recently completed another multi-year deal tosell and maintain fighter aircraft, BAE s major customers are pulling in their horns. Spirallinggovernment debt in America and Britain means that wars of choice are no longeraffordable and the search is on for cuts in big procurement programmes. The reviewrecently undertaken by Robert Gates, America s defence secretary, resulted in thecancellation of part of the Future Combat Systems programme, a big army-modernisationproject for which BAE is a prominent contractor. In Britain, cuts to an already overstretcheddefence budget are only being postponed until after next year s election.
拥有强有力的资产负债表,且保持近十年的利润稳步增长,从很多方面来说,BAE都状况良好。但接下来的几年可能会经受更多考验。除了沙特阿拉伯BAE刚又跟它签署了一项多年的销售和维护战斗机的协议之外,BAE的其他客户都在缩减开支。螺旋上升的债务使得美国和英国无力承担选择之战,对于大额采购项目缩减方案的搜索行动也开始启动。美国国防部长Roberts Gates最近展开的调查,令美国取消了部分未来战斗系统项目,这个庞大的军队现代化项目最主要的承包商就是BAE。在英国,对已经过于铺张的国防预算的缩减计划被推迟到明年大选之后。
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