From: sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee)
Date: 23 Jan 1996 21:38:51 -0800
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In article <4e2uog$cmc@bone.think.com>, sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee) writes:
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|> Fokker last year made a loss of $600M on a production of $1.5B. They have
|> plenty of orders, but they have been selling below cost. DASA, who is
|> the majority owner, has been making up the losses, which contributed to
|> DASA's own deficit of $4B over 1995.
There is an article in today's New York Times (page D-1). One correction
to the above : the $4B loss over 1995 is that of Daimler-Benz, not of
DASA, their aerospace division. Otherwise, my numbers were reasonably
accurate. The NYT does not confirm, however, what I heard from Dutch
news : that after not getting support from the Dutch govt, Daimler's board
officially pulled the plug on Fokker.
|> On Jan 22nd, DASA went to the Dutch Govt and asked for a one-time subsidy
|> of $1.5B. The Dutch Govt, having already spent billions on Fokker in
|> recent years, refused. Thereupon DASA stopped the support for Fokker,
|> and the company is going to be closed down (I understand the decision is
|> final on all sides). Fokker has been building airplanes since 1911 or
|> thereabouts and has 7,000 employees left (there have been plenty of layoffs
|> already lately).
|>
|> This from Dutch news. Please excuse any errors I may have made in currency
|> conversions.
Daan Sandee sandee@think.com
Burlington, MA
