From SME to major player in aeronautics: the impressive growth of Daher in 25 years

Small business will become big, provided it is well managed and knows how to adapt. Daher, which will celebrate its 160th anniversary at the Paris Air Show next June, is a good example of this. From an SME, with a turnover of 70 million euros in France and 400 employees in 1998, it was transformed into an ETI (Intermediate-sized company) with 1.3 billion in sales, with 12,000 employees in 2022. And “ we want to enter, with more than 2 billion in revenues before 2027, the club of the fifty largest aeronautical companies in the world », announces Didier Kayat, its managing director.

And, this, while remaining a family business (the Daher family controls 87.5% of the capital; the balance is in the hands of BpiFrance) with an atypical profile. Because Daher is the European leader in general aviation, with TBM business jets built in Europe and Kodiaks, assembled in the United States, but also a leading equipment supplier, present on programs as varied as the Airbus A320 …