EADS N.V. - EADS Test & Services acquires Get Electronique, a French company specialising in services in industrial electronics

EADS Test & Services has acquired the company Get Electronique based in Castres near Toulouse, France. This small-size company specialises in services in industrial electronics and brings EADS Test & Services additional competencies in electronics repair, maintenance and sustainability in particular for activities aimed at prolonging the service life of systems and installations in such industries as aeronautics, defence, transport and energy.

Get Electronique will become a 100% subsidiary of EADS Test & Services. Also Managing Director of EADS Test & Services France, Mr Bernard Désaphi will become Get’s new Chairman. Get’s Managing Director is Mr Jean-Marie Peyriguer, former Chairman of Get. In 2005, the new subsidiary generated revenues of € 2.5 million and currently employs 27 persons.

Through this acquisition, EADS Test & Services reinforces its competencies in services for sustaining and prolonging electronics products. As part of the EADS Group, Get Electronique will find new market opportunities in the aeronautic, defence and space industries while maintaining its traditional industrial electronics markets (robots, control & command systems, engine control systems, speed control systems, power electronics)

For more than thirty years, EADS Test & Services has been supplying test solutions to airlines, equipment manufacturers, maintenance organisations and armed forces all over the world. It is the world leader for testing commercial avionics and has a comprehensive catalogue of test and maintenance products and services. EADS Test & Services is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the EADS Group and is an integrated part of the EADS Defence & Security Systems Division (DS).

With revenues of about € 5.6 billion in 2005 and roughly 23,000 employees across nine nations, DS forms the defence and security pillar within EADS. As a Large Systems Integrator, it offers integrated systems solutions to the new challenges confronting armed forces and global security. It is active in the areas of manned and unmanned integrated combat and mission air systems, including related training services, and in missile systems, battlefield management systems for all branches, global security solutions, secure networks, defence electronics, sensors and avionics, as well as related services.

EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2005, EADS generated revenues of € 34.2 billion and employed a workforce of about 113,000.