Boeing agreed to pay $4.2 billion to buy 80% of Embraer
Boeing drops Embraer name from Brazil commercial jet division
Dropping one of Brazil's most iconic company names.
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May 23, 2019 - by Marcelo Rochabrun for reuters.com
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Boeing Co on Thursday said that after taking over Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA's passenger jet unit, it will call the division Boeing Brasil - Commercial, dropping one of Brazil's most iconic company names.
The name change comes after Boeing agreed to pay $4.2 billion to buy 80% of Embraer's operation making passenger jets with fewer than 150 seats. Embraer will retain a 20% stake. That division is still Embraer's most profitable and considered a gold standard of Brazilian engineering.
Boeing has not made a decision yet about whether to rebrand the small and mid-sized planes, which currently carry the Embraer name followed by a model code...