Leonardo (company)

Leonardo S.p.A.
FormerlyFinmeccanica (1948–2016)
Leonardo-Finmeccanica (2016)
Company typePublic
Industry
Founded1948 (1948)
HeadquartersRome, Italy
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
ProductsAeronautics, aircraft, helicopters, electronics, defence systems, remote controlled weapon stations, turrets, autocannons, rotary cannons, naval artillery, missiles, torpedoes, unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned underwater vehicles
RevenueIncrease 17.763 billion (2024)
Increase €1.271 billion (2024)
Increase €1.159 billion (2024)
Total assetsIncrease €33.673 billion (2024)
Total equityIncrease €10.2 billion (2024)
OwnerMinistero dell’Economia e delle Finanze (30.2%)[1]
Number of employees
60,500 (2024)
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.leonardo.com Edit this at Wikidata
Footnotes / references
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Leonardo S.p.A., is an Italian multinational company specialising in aerospace, defence and security. Headquartered in Rome, the company has 180 sites worldwide.[3] It is the 12th largest defence contractor in the world based on 2020 revenues.[4] The company is partially owned by the Italian government, which holds 30.2% of the company's shares and is its largest shareholder.

On 1 January 2016, Leonardo-Finmeccanica became a single industrial company by integrating the activities of its subsidiaries AgustaWestland, Alenia Aermacchi, DRS Technologies, Selex ES, OTO Melara and WASS. The company is organised into five divisions (Helicopters, Aircraft, Aerostructures, Electronics, Cybersecurity). It is also the parent company and corporate centre for the subsidiaries and joint ventures Telespazio, Thales Alenia Space, MBDA and ATR. Leonardo is listed on the Borsa Italiana and is a constituent of the FTSE MIB and Dow Jones Sustainability Indices.

The company changed its name to Leonardo S.p.A. on 1 January 2017, after the Italian inventor Leonardo da Vinci.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Shareholders base". www.leonardo.com. Leonardo S.p.A. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  2. ^ "Integrated Annual Report 2024" (PDF). Leonardo S.p.A. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  3. ^ "Profile - Leonardo - Aerospace, Defence and Security". www.leonardocompany.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  4. ^ Top 100 Arms-Producing and Military Service Companies Archived 7 December 2020 at the Wayback Machine SIPRI. Received 18 December 2019.
  5. ^ Official Press Release. "Finmeccanica: shareholders' meeting approves the change of the company's name and the 2015 financial statements". Leonardocompany.com. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference defensenews was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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