Leading aerospace company joins sponsors for CQI’s inaugural International Quality Awards

With 7,000 UK-based employees, Leonardo is the largest inward investor in the UK defence sector, the largest Italian inward investor to the UK and one of the biggest suppliers of defence equipment to the UK’s Ministry of Defence.

The company has over 45,000 employees based in its offices and industrial plants at 180 sites worldwide, with a significant industrial presence in four domestic markets: Italy, the UK, the US and Poland. It also has strategic partnerships in the most important high-potential international markets.

Estelle Clark, Executive Director of Policy at CQI said, “It’s wonderful that Leonardo understand the business benefit accruing from their own Quality Professionals and, by sponsoring the CQI Leadership Award, they are ensuring we recognise fellow Quality Professionals whose stories can be shared to inspire others.”