Case Study
AgustaWestland
Overview AgustaWestland, the Anglo-Italian helicopter company owned by Italy’s Finmeccanica, is a total capability provider in the vertical lift market. Its operations are spread globally across Europe, North America and the Asia/Pacific region. Despite a general economic down-turn, AgustaWestland revenues were EUR 3,480 mil- lion in 2009, up EUR 445 million (+15%) on the EUR 3,035 million reported the previous year. The company delivers unrivalled mission ca- pability to military and commercial operators around the world and has over 14,000 employ- ees, 4,000 of which are in the UK. Challenge AgustaWestland has a long history of strong product development, historically centered on rotary-wing aircrafts. Over the years a combination of solutions were developed to support the