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EMBRAER REPORTS SECOND QUARTER DELIVERIES AND TOTAL COMPANY BACKLOG
Sao Jose dos Campos, July 02, 2003 - Embraer (Bovespa: EMBR3 and EMBR4;
NYSE: ERJ) today announced the second quarter 2003 deliveries for its
Commercial, Corporate and Defense markets, as well as the total Company
backlog.
The deliveries by segment were as follows:
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Deliveries by Segment 1st Quarter 03 2nd Quarter 03 1st Half 03
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Commercial Market
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ERJ 135 3 6 9
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ERJ 140 4 6 10
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ERJ 145 15 13 28
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Total Commercial Market 22 25 47
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Corporate Jet Market
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Legacy / EMB 135 / EMB145 1 3 4
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Total Corporate Jet Market 1 3 4
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Defense (*) - - -
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Total 23 28 51
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(*) Includes deliveries for governmental transportation only.
Embraer's firm order backlog as of June 30, 2003 totalled US$ 10.3 billion.
As of the same date, backlog including options reached US$ 27.1 billion.
Embraer's commercial aircraft sales order book at June 30, 2003 is
summarized as follows:
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Product Firm Orders Options Deliveries Firm Order Backlog
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Commercial Market
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ERJ 135 121 6 100 21
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ERJ 140 174 45 68 106
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ERJ 145 581 434 502 79
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EMBRAER 170 119 157 - 119
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EMBRAER 190 110 120 - 110
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EMBRAER 195 15 32 - 15
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Total 1,120 794 670 450
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Information to Editors
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Embraer-Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. is a major aerospace
company with 33 years of experience in designing, developing,
manufacturing, selling and providing after sales support to aircraft for
the global airline, defense and corporate markets. With headquarters in Sao
Jose dos Campos, state of Sao Paulo, and offices and customer service bases
in Australia, China, France, Singapore and the United States, the Company,
as of the end of the 1st Quarter 2003, has a total workforce of 12,407
people. Embraer is among Brazil's leading exporting companies. As of June
30, 2003 Embraer's firm order backlog totaled US$ 10.3 billion and the
total backlog, including options, equaled US$ 27.1 billion.
IR Contacts
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Anna Cecilia Bettencourt
Gustavo Poppe
Milene Petrelluzzi
Paulo Ferreira
Phone: 55 (12) 3927 1216
Fax 55 (12) 3922 6070
e-mail: mercapit@embraer.com.br
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This document may contain projections, statements and estimates regarding
circumstances or events yet to take place. Those projections and estimates
are based largely on current expectations, forecasts on future events and
financial tendencies that affect the Company's businesses. Those estimates
are subject to risks, uncertainties and suppositions that include, among
other: general economic, politic and trade conditions in Brazil and in
those markets where the Company does business; expectations on industry
trends; the Company's investment plans; its capacity to develop and deliver
products on the dates previously agreed upon, and existing and future
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updates nor to revise any estimates due to new information, future events
or any other facts. In view of the inherent risks and uncertainties, such
estimates, events and circumstances may not take place. The actual results
can therefore differ substantially from those previously published as
Company expectations.
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