ATR, a European maker of turboprops that is jointly owned by Airbus's parent EADS and Finmeccanica of Italy, had a record year last year, winning firm orders for 157 planes and options for a further 79.

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However, running that board is Chairman Jerome Feldman, 79, who resigned from former parent GP Strategies in 2005 after shareholders complained about his long record of destroying value.

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The Fukushima Daiichi plant has a black mark on its record from earlier in the last decade, when a scandal involving falsified safety records led to parent company Tepco briefly shutting down its entire nuclear fleet in Japan.

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