Eurocopter braces for delivery stumble
Eurocopter CEO Lutz Bertling said the company is basking “in an exploding market with a booming turnover,” but he sounded a cautious tone with respect to t

Eurocopter CEO Lutz Bertling said the company is basking “in an exploding market with a booming turnover,” but he sounded a cautious tone with respect to the challenge of delivering its helicopters on time.

Eurocopter, the undisputed world leader in parapublic sector helicopter sales, enjoys a $14.5 billion backlog and saw its sales jump 50 percent last year, from 401 to 615 units. But to hear Bertling tell it, this is not the time to celebrate. “Feeling comfortable is the first sign [that you could] lose,” he admitted at a press breakfast here yesterday. “We need to make sure that we don’t overheat.”

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