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> It’s majority owned by the French state Is that really true? I thought it was owned 50:50 by Safran and Airbus which are both publicly traded companies. ~25
by qwytw 2y ago
> It’s majority owned by the French state
Is that really true? I thought it was owned 50:50 by Safran and Airbus which are both publicly traded companies.
~25% of Airbus is owned by France, Germany and Spain. France owes ~11% of Safran. So France seems to own only ~10% of ArianeSpace
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoYou’re correct—thank you. I missed CNES transferring its shares to Safran [1]. [1] https://www.arianespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Corporate-brochure-EN-Feb2016.pdf https://www.arianespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Corpo...