Building the Future of Mobility: Growing Local Roots in Bombardier’s Key Markets

Markets outside our home markets are crucial to our future success as a business. In the coming years, our target is to increase our share of the revenues coming from markets outside Western Europe and North America.

We want to position ourselves to readily identify and capitalize on business opportunities in these markets and to meet the growing transportation needs of their billions of inhabitants. To do this, we need to be engaged members of local communities.

When we think about growing local roots, we think not only about how to function more effectively on the ground and be more responsive to our customers, but also about how to best operate in a region for the long-term. Our strategy is to establish a foundation for long-term regional success by:

• Hiring locally: Identifying and cultivating local talent enables us to operate most effectively and profitably, as well as to understand the culture where we are established.
• Sourcing locally: Many products go into our planes and trains, and not all of them can be found in every market. But often we can work with local suppliers to meet our production needs. When this is possible, it saves costs and helps build the local industry and economy.
• Supporting local communities: Our level of productivity in any location is directly affected by the quality of life in the surrounding community. Supporting our communities through engaged partnerships fortifies our current and future workforce and helps to create a long-term future for Bombardier in the region.

By taking this approach, we believe we can both grow our business and help build the economies and infrastructures of growing markets around the world.

About Bombardier
Bombardier is the world’s only manufacturer of both planes and trains. Looking far ahead while delivering today, Bombardier is evolving mobility worldwide by answering the call for more efficient, sustainable and enjoyable transportation everywhere. Our vehicles, services and, most of all, our employees are what make us a global leader in transportation.

Bombardier is headquartered in Montréal, Canada. Our shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD) and we are listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indexes. In the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, we posted revenues of $18.2 billion. News and information are available at bombardier.com or follow us on Twitter @Bombardier.