Thales Training and Consultancy

Thales Training and Consultancy is a training services company based in Crawley, offering:

• IT training: using Microsoft and Adobe software
• Management and people development training
• Project and risk management courses
• Health and safety training

Thales offers standard and made-to-measure training courses, and allows companies to outsource their training needs.

Location

Thales Training and Consultancy is on Gatwick Road:

About Thales

Thales Training and Consultancy, which has another branch in Basingstoke, appears to be the respectable face of the huge, public-subsidy-private-profit weapons organisation, Thales (at least, the training company uses the same logo as the arms company), formerly known as Thomson-CSF. More about Thales:

• Thales is involved in supplying ID cards to repressive regimes such as China.
• Thales has been accused of using bribery when supplying weapons to the regime in South Africa.
• Thales was convicted of bribery in supplying warships to the regime in Taiwan.
• Thales is being investigated for bribery in arms deals in France, Greece, Argentina and Cambodia.
• Thales is implicated in corruptly obtaining a large arms contract in Angola.
• Thales was investigated for corruption in the sale of submarines to the regime in Malaysia.
• According to the New York Times, Thales earned 12 billion Euros in 2007.