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Eurocopter enhances its Shape reorganization plan
Eurocopter is beefing up Shape, the reorganization plan it unveiled last October.

Eurocopter is beefing up Shape, the reorganization plan it unveiled last October. Reacting to sluggish demand, the company has increased spending on research and development, closed one site, redefined executive responsibilities and planned job cuts.

Shape will boost R&D expenditure to E1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) through 2014, representing a further increase over this year’s E200 million ($260 million) or so. “The competition has caught up in recent years, while we were busy with the NH90 and Tiger military programs,” CFDT union representative Didier Hacquart told AIN.
Another E1 billion ($1.3 billion) is to be spent on “competitiveness,” including the modernization of production tools and hardware and the acquisition of other companies, as the manufacturer did in 2008 when it took over Motorflug, a service specialist in Germany.

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