Article: Policy rift leads key official to quit EADS


International Herald Tribune
06-12-2007
European Aeronautic, Defense & Space, the owner ofAirbus, said Monday that its chief operating officer, Jean-Paul Gut, was quitting amid policy disagreements and would be succeeded by Marwan Lahoud, head of the missile-maker MBDA. Gut, 46, will leave Oct. 1 after a dispute over issues related to marketing and sales, EADS said in a statement. Gut's departure comes as EADS struggles with losses at Airbus, the world's biggest maker of commercial aircraft, and with questions about the future of a shareholder structure controlled by Paris-based Lagardere and DaimlerChrysler, based in Stuttgart, Germany.''The departure wasn't a surprise, and we've ...

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