Agoracom: Small Cap Investment - Bombardier

Aerospace & Rail

Industry Leading Transportation Manufacturer

Bombardier Inc., Montréal, Québec, TSX : BBD.B (Class B subordinate (voting) shares)

Bombardier family controll - 54.16%

As stated in the 2008 Management Proxy Circular, as at April 2, 2008, the Bombardier family controlled, indirectly through holding companies, 78.62 per cent of the Corporation’s outstanding Class A shares, 0.08 per cent of the Corporation's outstanding Class B subordinate shares and 54.16 % of all the voting rights attached to all issued and outstanding voting shares.

Every day, around the globe, Bombardier manufactures state-of-the-art planes and trains that help people and goods get where they need to go.

And every day, we work diligently to earn our worldwide leadership in aerospace and rail transportation.

We do this by engineering ingenious and sustainable solutions to today’s mobility challenges and opportunities.

Industry-Leading Transportation Manufacturer

Bombardier is a global transportation company, present in more than 60 countries on five continents.

We operate two industry-leading businesses:

Aerospace & Rail Transportation

Our 60,000 employees design, manufacture, sell and support the widest range of world-class products in these two sectors.

This includes commercial and business jets, as well as rail transportation equipment, systems and services.

Bombardier is headquartered in Montréal, Canada, and its shares (BBD) are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

In the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, we posted revenues of $17.5 billion US.

Bombardier Aerospace

With more than 28,000 employees and well-positioned in global markets, Bombardier Aerospace ranks as the world’s third largest civil aircraft manufacturer. Its high-performance aircraft and services set the standard of excellence in several markets, including:

Business aircraft

Learjet,
Challenger
Global aircraft families

Commercial aircraft

new C Series
CRJ Series
Q-Series aircraft families

Amphibious aircraft

Bombardier 415 and Bombardier 415 MP aircraft

Jet travel solutions

Flexjet

Specialized aircraft solutions

Bombardier aircraft modified for special missions,
Aircraft services and training –
Aircraft parts, maintenance, comprehensive training, technical support and publications, and online services

Bombardier Transportation

With operations in more than 35 countries, Bombardier Transportation leads the world’s rail equipment manufacturing and servicing industry.

Its 31,500 employees continue a proud tradition of delivering ingenious rail transportation solutions, including:

Rail vehicles
Automated people movers,
Monorails,
Light rail vehicles,
Advanced rapid transit, metros,
Commuter/regional trains,
Intercity/high-speed trains and locomotives

Propulsion and controls

Complete product portfolio for applications ranging from trolley buses to freight locomotives
Bogies - product portfolio for the entire range of rail vehicles
Services - fleet maintenance, operations and maintenance (O&M), vehicle refurbishment and modernization, and material management

Total transit systems

Customized “design-build-operate-maintain... transportation system solutions
Rail control solutions - advanced signalling solutions for mass transit and mainline systems