Dedienne Aerospace

- Thierry Blateyron, Dedienne Aerospace

"Dedienne Aerospace is a French family group specializing in aeronautical maintenance tools for the civil aviation and defense markets. In the last 15 years, the group has opened subsidiaries in China, Singapore, Dubai, Qatar, Mexico and UK. Most of them were launched with the support of local chambers.

In 2017, we were selected by a major player in the defense sector to take charge of the engineering and manufacture of the GSEs of a combat aircraft. Engineering is carried out at our headquarters in Toulouse, France and we have developed a complete supply chain in India to support their manufacturing by Indian suppliers.

We started the activity with a local partner but it became necessary to open a subsidiary of the group established in India to perpetuate both the Defense activity for our client and for our development of the civil market with airlines and maintenance centers.

Based on our previous experiences, we naturally contacted IFCCI's Bangalore office to present our project. IFCCI has accompanied us from the first day until today on a very wide range of functions:

• Legal creation of the entity
• Recruitment of the local team
• Support for accounting functions
• Legal support on all the subjects with which we are confronted, in particular the numerous registrations with the Indian government necessary within the framework of our activity

IFCCI offers a range of services that we have not yet encountered in other countries in terms of diversity. They manage what they master and connect with consulting firms for what is outside their area of ​​expertise but retain leadership both in terms of partner management and commercial service. This has the enormous advantage of having a limited number of contacts, with a dedicated team who know us, is in line with our market, our context and our expectations.

And finally, we have recruited resources who will eventually integrate these functions within our subsidiary. IFCCI supports us to train these resources that will allow us to be independent in the long term without a real transition period.

We particularly appreciated the sincerity and clarity of our discussions from day one. Creating a subsidiary in India can appear to be complex, long or difficult at first glance. But with a good support, it becomes an exciting project."