Farnborough - Sponsorship

The Farnborough International Airshow offers an entire range of creative sponsorship opportunities. We are proud to be working with the following leading companies at the 2008 event:

	Exhibitor
	Accenture Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With more than 175,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$19.70 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2007. www.accenture.com
	Adroit-e Research Adroit-e Research is a full service, quantitative Market Research Company. Combining traditional Market Research values with state of the art Technology, Adroit-e conducts market research for world class companies and events. The company retains its personal service ethos while working regularly in the UK, Europe, and the USA. The company was formed in 2004. By adopting innovative approaches to the corporate need not only to obtain new facts but to discover new ways of thinking about them, Adroit-e is growing rapidly both in size and in reputation. www.adroit-e.co.uk
	Aviation Week Aviation Week Group began in 1916 with one magazine, and today it is the largest multimedia information and services provider to the global aviation, aerospace and defence industries. www.aviationnow.com/avnow/
	BAE SYSTEMS BAE Systems is an international company engaged in the development, delivery and support of advanced defence and aerospace systems in the air, on land, at sea and in space. www.baesystems.com
	Boeing Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft, with capabilities in rotorcraft, electronic and defence systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. Our reach extends to customers in 145 countries around the world, and we are the number one U.S. exporter in terms of sales. www.boeing.com
	Bombardier Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast is an integral part of the world’s third largest civil aircraft manufacturer, and leader in the regional and business aircraft markets. It is one of the largest aerospace companies in the UK and the largest manufacturer in Northern Ireland, with some 5,000 employees. With a century of aviation experience, it is a centre of excellence for the design, manufacture and support of large aircraft structures, including fuselages, engine nacelles and flight control surfaces in metal and advanced composites. It plays a major role in all of Bombardier’s families of aircraft, as well as producing aircraft structures and nacelles for other international manufacturers. www.bombardier.com
	Canadian Group Canadian companies have a wide range of capabilities to offer the global Aerospace and defence sector. www.strategis.gc.ca/cadcc
	Cellhire Established in 1987, Cellhire® is a world leader in mobile communications providing clients and partners with innovative and competitive wireless solutions. Cellhire is an independent company providing service on various networks worldwide. Through the strength of global relationships, Cellhire offers customers a broad range of world class rental services. www.cellhire.com
	CEVA Showfreight CEVA Showfreight (formerly TNT Showfreight) is once again extremely proud to be associated with the Farnborough International Airshow. As usual we will be coordinating freight movements from all around the world making sure Customs formalities are dealt with and ensuring safe arrival at Farnborough. Once onsite our show team will schedule all deliveries and arrange direct unloading to stand by either forktruck or crane. Any empty cases can be stored during the show with prompt delivery at the close of the event. CEVA Showfreight’s experience and expertise is guaranteed to facilitate a smooth logistics operation for all exhibitors. www.cevashowfreight.com
	CRA International CRA International (NASDAQ:CRAI) is a leading consulting firm with offices across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Aerospace & Defense Consulting at CRA applies the firm’s strengths in economics, finance, and public policy to the strategic challenges of industry, investors, and governments. Our consultants have served in the military, and have worked at the leading aerospace and defense corporations, the financial institutions that support them, and the government agencies that regulate, administer, and procure from them. As a result, we have broad perspective and deep understanding of the strategic context in which these interrelated entities operate. www.csc.com
	CSC CSC’s mission is to provide customers value with innovative business solutions and services crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology. We assist A&D companies achieve operational effectiveness in their pursuit and response to global market opportunities and challenges. We provide leading edge industry specific systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting on a global scale with approximately 91,000 employees in 80 countries. CSC reported revenue of $16.1 billion for 12 months ending 12/28/07. For more information, www.csc.com
	De Boer From global conferences and exhibitions to the world’s top sporting events; from temporary hotels to temporary offices, warehouses and retail stores; from glitzy product launches to international film premieres…De Boer Covers All. www.deboer.com/
	DHL DHL is the global market leader in international express, overland transport and air freight. It is also the world's number 1 in ocean freight and contract logistics. DHL offers a full range of customised solutions - from express document shipping to supply chain management. DHL's international network links more than 220 countries and territories worldwide. Around 285,000 employees are dedicated to providing fast and reliable services that exceed customers' expectations in 120,000 destinations in all continents. www.dhl.com
	EDS EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. The Group includes the aircraft manufacturer Airbus, the world's largest helicopter supplier Eurocopter and EADS Astrium, the European leader in space programmes from Ariane to Galileo. Its Defence & Security Division is a provider of comprehensive systems solutions and makes EADS the major partner in the Eurofighter consortium as well as a stakeholder in the missile systems provider MBDA. EADS also develops the A400M through its Military Transport Aircraft Division. Corresponding to the product range, the company is subdivided into five Divisions: Airbus, Eurocopter, Astrium, Military Transport Aircraft, Defence & Security. EADS employs about 116,000 people at more than 70 production sites, above all in France, Germany, Great Britain and Spain as well as in the U.S. and Australia. www.eads.net
	EDS EDS provides a broad portfolio of business and technology solutions to help its clients worldwide improve their business performance. www.eds.com/industries/aerospace/
	Finmeccanica Finmeccanica is the main Italian industrial group operating globally in the aerospace, defence and security sectors, and is one of the world's leading groups in the fields of helicopters and defence electronics. It is also the European leader for satellite and space services as well as having considerable know-how and production capacity in the energy and transport fields. Headquartered in Italy and with a vast industrial base in the UK as well as important production facilities in the rest of Europe and in the USA, Finmeccanica has a workforce of more than 60,748 people, and a revenues volume of euro mil. 13,429. Technology and innovation are the keystones of Finmeccanica's success and competitive edge. For this reason, the Group invests 1,836 billion euros a year in R&D activities, making Finmeccanica the leading Italian investor in hi-tech sectors. As far as the core business is concerned, investments amount to 20% of turnover - a percentage that is higher than some of its main competitors. A large part of R&D investment is channelled into dual technology projects, leading to significant advantages in civil applications of considerable strategic importance. To maintain its leadership in hi-tech sectors, Finmeccanica focuses on the value of its human resources, and the laboratories of its subsidiaries are staffed by around 3,000 highly specialized researchers. www.finmeccanica.com
	FLIR Systems, Inc. FLIR Systems, Inc. is a world leader in the design, qualification, and manufacturing of thermal imaging and stabilized EO/IR systems for a wide variety of airborne, maritime, land based and man-portable applications. These capabilities are applicable to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), combat search and rescue (CSAR), border control and drug interdiction, navigation safety, maritime patrol, force protection and facility security, forward observation, training, targeting and fire control, and laser weapons designation. FLIR Systems’ unique commercially developed, military qualified (CDMQ) products are engineered to endure. And, FLIR Systems is dedicated to EO/IR because it’s all we do. www.gs.flir.com
	GKN Aerospace GKN Aerospace, the aerospace division of GKN plc, is structured into four product focussed businesses: Engine Products, Aerostructures, Integrated Propulsion Systems and Transparency Systems. GKN Aerospace's global operations employ over 7,500 people and supply all the major airframe and aero engine manufacturers. The Company’s areas of expertise include composite materials, metallics and transparencies. It is recognised as one of the leading independent suppliers of composite structures for civil and military aircraft and offers a full range of metal fabrication facilities manufacturing complex, high performance assemblies for aero-engines and airframes. In transparencies, the Company is the leading supplier to the military and civil aerospace market. www.gknaerospace.com
	Lazard Lazard, one of the world's preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms, operates from 39 cities across 21 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Central and South America. With origins dating back to 1848, the firm provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and capital raising, as well as asset management services to corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments, and individuals. Lazard’s Aerospace & Defense sector is one of the firm’s global specialty areas, going back to the 1960s when it advised Douglas Aircraft in its sale to McDonnell. www.lazard.com
	Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin UK, a unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, is a leader in systems integration working on major programmes spanning the aerospace, defence, civil and commercial sectors. Lockheed Martin works with over 100 business partners and employs over 1500 people at 15 sites across the UK. www.lockheedmartin.com
	Manpower With 50 years of experience in staffing and recruitment, we’re experts in our field. We help our clients anticipate and benefit from changes happening in the contemporary world of work, supplying nothing but quality permanent and temporary staff. For all industries, skills and levels. We give our candidates the freedom to work in the way that best suits them, whether it’s permanent, temporary, contract, part-time, full-time, term-time or flexi-time. We talk to both our clients and candidates about their needs, so we can match them to each other perfectly. www.manpower.co.uk/employers
	Redrow Award winning developer Redrow builds a wide variety of new homes at circa 100 locations across the UK. These range from affordable starter homes to family housing, elegant town houses, executive detached homes, contemporary city centre apartments and refurbishment of historic properties to combine period features with a modern specification. Examples include Farnborough Central, where Redrow is converting two buildings of historic interest into luxury apartments as part of its wider redevelopment of part of the site of the former Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) headquarters. This scheme will eventually comprise 476 new and refurbished homes. Info: 01252 511101 / www.farnboroughcentral.redrow.co.uk
	Rolls-Royce plc Rolls-Royce plc employs 35,000 people and operates in four global markets - civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy. www.rolls-royce.com/index_flash.jsp
	The Apartment Service The Apartment Service, founded in 1981, is the largest booking agent for serviced apartments in Europe. Using The Apartment Service you can book a serviced apartment for stays of a week, a month or even a year in one of our 3000 serviced apartments worldwide. Why would you stay in a cramped hotel room, when you can have the space, the privacy and the comfort of your own fully furnished and equipped apartment and save up to 30% on comparable hotel accommodation at the same time? For more information, please visit our website. www.apartmentservice.com/airshows
	ThyssenKrupp Aerospace ThyssenKrupp Aerospace is the world`s first global materials service provider and was formed earlier this year following the acquisition of the Apollo Group by Thyssen Krupp AG. It brings together Thyssen Krupp`s USA based aerospace distribution businesses, TKX and TMX, their existing European aerospace distribution operations including ASA in the UK, and Aviation Metals and Apollo Metals businesses in Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, China and India. In total the new Group has 30 service centres in 13 countries which enables it to aggregate demand across a single supply chain on behalf of the worlds leading OEM`s whilst at the same time meeting the day to day service needs of individual sub contractors. Through optimised material supply it plays a major part in lowering costs. www.apollometals.com
	UK Trade & Investment UK Trade & Investment is the Government organisation that helps UK based companies succeed in an increasingly global economy. Our range of expert services are tailored to the needs of individual businesses to maximise their international success. We provide companies with knowledge, advice and practical support. UK Trade & Investment also helps overseas companies bring high quality investment to the UK’s vibrant economy – acknowledged as Europe’s best place from which to succeed in global business. We provide support and advice to investors at all stages of their business decision-making. www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk
	Willis Aerospace Willis Aerospace has achieved and sustained leadership status in terms of market share, through the consistent provision and professional delivery of range of value added risk solutions and products to our clients. We represent over a third of the world’s airlines in addition to many of the worlds leading aerospace manufacturers, airports and service providers. Our position underlines that we have and continue to be able to meet the changing needs of our clients as they grow and the aviation industry risk landscape evolves. Our ability to link specialist resources with our global network capability maximises value for our clients. www.willis.com/Client_Solutions/Industries/Aerospace/