Flight International Top 100

This report has been compiled by Neil Hampson, UK PwC Strategy partner and UK A&D XLOS Leader with support from A&D consultant Felicien Dillard and written by Flight International magazine. An article by Alistair Kett, UK A&D Performance Improvement Consulting (PIC) Leader entitled, "Customers say 'Enough is Enough'", is also featured.

Key findings:

Aerospace's Top 100 revenue generators grew 12% in 2006 to $483.4 bn - but almost all that growth came from the commercial market, with the defence business remaining essentially flat
Operating profits totalled $41.5 bn last year, up 8%
In keeping with the 80/20 rule, the Top 20 companies accounted for 80% of the industry's sales and earnings
The aerospace industry will be lucky to see similar revenue growth in 2007 given the constraints on commercial aircraft capacity growth at Airbus and Boeing - and defence spending staying flat

This will be of particularly interest to CEOs/ Board Directors, Strategy/Business Development/M&A Directors, Regulation Directors, Procurement Specialists, A&D analysts and the Airline/Defence community in general.

For more details, please contact Neil Hampson on + 44 20 7804 9405.

We are pleased to announce the launch of Flight International's 'Aerospace Top 100' in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Flight International is " the world's leading international aerospace news weekly magazine" with 43,000 readers in nearly 200 countries. The Aerospace Top 100 features insight and comprehensive analysis of the Top 100 marketplace.