Northern Ireland aerospace and defence company Short Brothers has been appointed as a qualified supplier to US company Texas Instruments on a missiles project for the Ministry of Defence. The deal is expected to be announced before parliament’s summer recess. shorts reported a 16% boost to pre-tax profits for the year to January 1 to £33.8m on turnover of £391m.
- Financial Times 25/6/96 page 20
- The Times 25/6/96 page 30
