After the financial crisis in 2009, the aerospace industry concentrates on international growth, according to the Roland Berger survey of top managers. Starting points in order to achieve the growth are, amongst others, international market strategies and more efficient research and development. That means that companies are trying to expand their product range and simultaneously open up their business areas. By this, the companies aim to spread the risk across different business areas. While The North American market remains the most important for the aerospace industry, markets like Asia, India, South America an the Middle East are becoming more and more interesting for the top managers.

Mergers and acquisitions are other opportunities for companies of the aerospace industry to grow and easily enter new markets – especially in the field of security. The British, the Saudi-Arabic, Indish, and even the Turkish market is growing six to eight percent per year.

On rolandberger.com, you will find more information and data.

What do you think about this development? Do you expect it to lead to more working positions/projects or rather less?