Developing optimized solutions with our customers

Our customer relationships extend to detailed collaboration aimed at creating optimized solutions. To this end, our research centers in Toulouse and Seattle have dedicated teams that include representatives from our different divisions. Another example is the work conducted in Los Angeles by our design and innovation studio, ZEO, which produces full-scale models of cabin interiors to refine the Innovative Space Interior System concept. This is the new cabin interior solution format selected by a number of airlines for retrofitting their Airbus A320 and Boeing B737

Strengthening our positions through targeted acquisitions

In keeping with our niche strategy of developing and consolidating global leadership positions in our markets, we acquired three companies in 2013/2014. Two of these were in the Zodiac Aircraft Systems business segment: TriaGnoSys, which supplements our IFE⁵ offering, and Pacific Precision Products, which strengthens our position in the business aviation sector for oxygen systems. The third acquisition, Greenpoint Technologies, boosts our global leadership in cabin interiors, extending it to the interiors of VIP aircraft and giving us access to a whole new business line -that of prime contractor for full cabin-system configuration (IFE, lighting, water and waste management, etc.).

Sharing our entrepreneurial culture

These acquisitions, which are principally due to our sound reputation and ability to engage in dialogue (exclusively in all three cases), join the 37 acquisitions already made by Zodiac Aerospace in the aerospace sector since 1978. We have developed in-depth know-how and a strong entrepreneurial culture that enable us to integrate our acquisitions and develop internal synergies while allowing each entity the autonomy needed to flourish and grow. In other words, we respect their essential ethos.

THREE MAJOR ACQUISITIONS DURING 2013/2014 FISCAL YEAR

TriaGnoSys

Specialized in inflight connectivity, wireless entertainment and cabin systems, the company is based in Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich, Germany.

Pacific Precision Products

A specialist in oxygen equipment systems, particularly for business aircraft, the company has 40 employees in Irvine in the United States.

Greenpoint Technologies

World leader in VIP cabin interiors for widebody aircraft and completion centerfor Boeing Business Jet, the company has 450 employees in Kirkland and Denton in the United States.

⁵ In-Flight Entertainment Systems

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