Aselsan and TAI Record Steady Growth in the Top Defence 100 List
Aselsan and TAI once again managed to enter the “Defence News Top 100” list that is accepted as World’s most prestigious defence industry list and published each year according to the defence sales of the previous year by the US based weekly Defence News magazine. Both companies sustained their steady growth this year. While Aselsan took the 62nd rank in the list in which it occupied the 67th row last year, TAI stepped up 5 rows and ascended to the 78th row.
Climbing five rows in the list, Aselsan’s total revenue in 2014 increased to $1,142 billion while its defence industry turnover increased to $1,109 billion with an increase of 10.7%. Compared with the last year’s figures, Taking the data of the previous year into consideration, Aselsan’s total revenue of year 2013 was $1,030 billion and its defence turnover went up to $1,001 billion with an increase of 16.1 %.
TAI climbed two rows in the list and passed the barrier of $1 billion and hita sales of $1.1 billion. TAI’s defence industry turnover reached $853 million with an increase of 8.3% and its steady growth continued. TAI reached total sales of $912 million in the previous year and its defence industry turnover was $788,4 million.
Where Aselsan acquired 97.1 % of its total turnover in 2014 from defence sales, this rate was again 97.1 % in 2013. TAI made 85.3 % of its total turnover of 2014 from its activities regarding the defence industry. The company obtained 86.4 % of its turnover of the previous year from defence industry activities. In the list in which TAI and Aselsan from Turkey were amongst the first 100 companies, American Lockheed Martin Company was once again at the first row while Boeing took the second row and BAE Systems followed.
