Jane's World Defence Industry

This one-stop source on corporate activity in the defence industry assesses the significance, corporate capabilities, organisational structure and current commercial performance of the world's highest-profile defence companies. Company-by-company, you will find information on ownership, key personnel, workforce, recent financial performance, plants and subsidiaries, products and new technologies, and an invaluable summary of their recent major contracts, making it an ideal resource for financial risk analysis, monitoring competitor activity and industry research.

The depth and breadth of information covers:

• Expert commentaries on corporate activities
• Corporate executive lists
• Parent companies and subsidiaries
• Organisational structure
• Product lines
• Current business priorities
• Facilities
• Recent contracts

Sections

• Africa and the middle east
• Analysis
• East and central europe
• East asia
• Latin america
• North america
• South west asia
• West europe

Content Structure
Jane's World Defence Industry provides an assessment of the significance, corporate capabilities, organisational structure and current commercial performance of what are perceived as the most significant high-profile players in the international market for defence equipment and systems. It is updated every six months as continuing corporate activity and fresh defence-related issues bring other companies to positions of prominence in their respective markets.

Inevitably, because of the complexity of many of the major groups in the defence and military aerospace industries, the Contents extend to include many hundreds of subsidiary organisations, many of which trade under names which do not immediately provide an indication of their parentage.

Jane's World Defence Industry aims to provide a readily accessible guide to the hierarchical relationships in an international market that is rapidly coming under the domination of extremely large and complex corporate structures.

Scope
This publication is divided into regional sections: Africa and the Middle East; East Asia; South West Asia and ASEAN; East and Central Europe; West Europe; North America; and Latin America. A Commentary providing a brief overview of current dominant issues has been provided for each region. Each region is subdivided into separate countries within which key companies are listed in alphabetical order. International companies are listed under the countries in which their head (home) offices are situated. Joint ventures are similarly listed in the entries of each of the partner companies.

Issue numbers and publication dates at the foot of each page show how recently individual entries have been updated. However, the most up-to-date information is available via the Jane's World Defence Industry microsite (jwdi.janes.com), which is continually updated between the printed editions.

Format
As far as possible a standard format has been adopted which provides, in the first instance, a description of the company and its ownership, directors or vice-presidents, the general nature of its business and details of its workforce and recent financial performance. This introductory section also includes a brief assessment of the factors which give the organisation its current listing in what may be described as the industry’s ‘upper echelons’.

Thereafter each entry details the various wholly-owned and partly-owned plants and subsidiaries for each company, outlines their principal activities and, wherever possible, their significance to their regional economies and provides a summary of their recent major contracts. Wherever applicable, entries are rounded out with listings of associated companies (sister companies within groups) which have no significant defence interests.

Assessment
There is no single measure by which we have been able to assess what endows a company with a ‘high-profile’ presence in the defence markets. Some of the largest suppliers to the defence community (for example, oil companies) have a low profile. Some relatively small companies may have enjoyed a succession of contract successes and/or technological breakthroughs that make them a centre of interest on the part of potential users and/or the various commercial and industrial sectors that have roles in their support. Therefore we have had to develop an approach wherein the hard facts of corporate life (for example, contract successes, merger and acquisitions activity, plant closures) are considered in context with current high-profile defence issues (rapid deployment and regional threats), specific technology issues (ballistic missile defence) and continuing trends in such high-profile areas as privatisation, contractorisation and environmental concern.

Looking Ahead
As each issue of Jane's World Defence Industry is produced, fresh waves of corporate, technological and procurement activity and changes in national political environments will have already begun to show through. The consistent element of the publication is its value as a source of objective, in depth information, not only on the companies which hold the industry’s high ground, but also on those who seek to compete or collaborate with them in domestic and international markets.

Sections covered:

•    AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
•    ANALYSIS
•    EAST AND CENTRAL EUROPE
•    EAST ASIA
•    LATIN AMERICA
•    NORTH AMERICA
•    SOUTH WEST ASIA
•    WEST EUROPE

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