Daher

Daher is a French industrial conglomerate, also stylized as DAHER, operating across the aerospace, defence, nuclear and automotive industrial sectors in manufacturing, services and transport. It was founded in 1863 as a shipping company based in Marseille, France, and within its first decade it was taken over by the Daher family, who have held a controlling stake for over 100 years. In the twenty first century the company moved into aviation by acquiring the French general aviation manufacturer SOCATA and the American aircraft company Quest Aircraft. Besides building its own range of light aircraft, Daher works as a subcontractor of aerostructures for several aerospace firms, among them Airbus, Boeing, Dassault and Gulfstream Aerospace.