AKKA TECHNOLOGIES

AKKA Technologies chosen as Preferred Supplier by SAFRAN

AKKA Technologies, specialists in High Technology Consulting and Engineering Services, is proud to announce that they have been chosen as the preferred supplier, in France and internationally, by the SAFRAN Group.

AKKA Technologies becomes SAFRAN's unique preferred supplier

AKKA Technologies has maintained excellent commercial relations with SNECMA for several years. Following a vast supplier selection process, AKKA Technologies has now been chosen as SAFRAN Group's preferred supplier in engineering consultancy.

AKKA Technologies re info rces its balanced offer in diverse industrial sectors

AKKA Technologies bases its strategy on the balance between three key factors: it works in diverse industry sectors, is competent in multiple technologies and covers several territories. In line with these principles, AKKA Technologies has re info rced its offer to the aeronautics industry since 2003, working with leading players such as EADS (contributing particularly to the AIRBUS program) and EUROCOPTER.

The SAFRAN preferred supplier status represents a significant step forward for AKKA Technologies in the development of its relationship with major aeronautics companies.

Development prospects in aeronautics, as well as in telecommunications

SAFRAN is today a major international player in aeronautic equipment, propulsion, telecommunications, defense and security. As a preferred SAFRAN supplier, AKKA Technologies opens the door to a vast array of development opportunities, in all areas of expertise.

About AKKA Technologies

Since 1984, AKKA Technologies, a leader in Hi-Tech Consulting and Engineering Services, intervenes at every stage of industrial projects, providing competitive advantages to its clients through the entire product life cycle, from R&D through to industrialization.
Solidly established in Western Europe (France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the UK and Switzerland), AKKA Technologies, through its mastery of complementary skills, provides true added value to major groups in all sectors: the automobile industry, aeronautics, space/defense, mass market electronics, telecommunications, chemical manufacturing, pharmaceutics, steel-making, energy production, railway systems, etc. They are recognized by major companies in all these sectors.
AKKA Technologies' teams are truly mobile, working throughout the world to participate in their clients' leading-edge technology projects.
AKKA Technologies generated revenues of 84.2 million euros in 2004, an increase of 27% over the previous year.
On 30 th June 2005, the company had 1,744 employees.
AKKA Technologies is continuing its development at a sustained rate and forecasts revenues of approximately 120 million euros in the coming year, an increase of 40% over the year.
AKKA Technologies is listed on the Paris Euronext Eurolist in Section C
ISIN Code: FR 0004180597