‘I’m not profiting from misery. I’m averting more’ – Thales’s UK boss on making missiles for Ukraine
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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:00:16 +0200
Whether manufacturing drones or printing British blue passports, the defence contractor is flying high in a geopolitically risky climateFor a “ferocious remainer”, Alex Cresswell is remarkably proud of his blue passport.
For some, the dark rectangle on his office table is a sad symbol of Britain’s departure from the EU.
But while the Thales UK boss describes watching the Brexit squabbles in Westminster from his decade-long posting at the company’s Paris HQ as “excruciating”, he smiles at the travel document.His aerospace-to-defence-and-security business is four years into a Home Office contract to produce the passports, after Gemalto (acquired by Thales) undercut the furious incumbent, De La Rue, to win the contract.
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