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Israel Defense Company Elbit Systems announces gross profit of $207.4 million in third quarter 15111.
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| Friday, November 15, 2013 09:12 AM | |||
| Israel Defense Company Elbit Systems announces gross profit of $207.4 million in third quarter 2013. | |||
Elbit
Systems, Israel's largest defense Company, reported Thursday, November
14, 2013, higher profits than expected in its quarterly report presented
to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The company attributes the increase primarily
to sales growth in the airborne systems and unmanned aerial vehicles,
as well as cost savings and efficiency measures. |
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 Elbit Systems develops manufactures and integrates advanced, high-performance defense electronic and electro-optic systems for customers throughout the world. |
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The Company focuses
on designing, developing, manufacturing and integrating command, control,
communication, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
(C4ISR) network centric systems, including unmanned vehicles, for defense
and homeland security applications. We also perform upgrade programs
for airborne, land and naval defense platforms. Revenues increased from 677.5 million dollars in the third quarter of 2012 to 730.6 million dollars in the third quarter of 2013. Elbit, which is a global firm headquartered in Israel, develops and manufactures weapons for homeland security. "The solid third quarter results reflect the year-over-year trend of improvements in revenue and profitability resulting from our ongoing focus on efficiency and on realizing the business-wide synergies of our global organization," Bezhalel Machlis, president and CEO of Elbit, said in a written statement released by the firm. He added that Elbit decides to increase efforts in research and development as well as in sales and marketing. "We are encouraged by the global markets' recognition of our innovative solutions, and we believe that, together with our efficiency measures, will maintain future growth," he said. |
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