By TomTom
Market leader in Portable Navigation Devices
(PNDs)
Founded in 1991, publicly listed in 2005
Revenue 2007 €1,737 million
Offices in Europe, North America, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
Over 3,500 employees
Five business units - TomTom, Tele Atlas, Automotive, Mobile and TomTom WORK
Strategy
TomTom is a digital mapping and routing company that focuses on car navigation. We aim to gain competitive advantage through superior products, a leading brand and a flexible production structure. We deliver Better Maps through a combination of our high quality map data base that is continuously kept up to date through input from our extensive fleet of surveying vehicles and our large community of users. We deliver Better Routing through the world’s largest historical speed profile data base and our unique real time traffic information service. Together this enables TomTom to offer cutting edge navigation solutions that can be used on different hardware platforms.
Read more on strategy here.
Products
Products include Portable Navigation Devices and software for use on PDAs and smartphones. Through the Tele Atlas unit the company also supplies digital maps that enable routing guidance.
Read details on TomTom's and Tele Atlas' web sites.
Company history
TomTom was founded by Harold Goddijn, Peter-Frans Pauwels and Pieter Geelen in 1991. The company’s shares were listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in May 2005. After years of rapid organic grow supported by small acquisitions a big step was taken in 2008 when Tele Atlas was acquired.
For detailed information, go to our History page.
Key figures
TomTom’s annual revenue grew from €8 million in 2002 to €1,737 million in 2007. During this period annual net profit increased from €1 million to €317 million for 2007.
More detailed information is available under Key Figures.
Markets
In 2008, TomTom navigation products are sold in 30 countries (and over 20 languages). TomTom has offices in 17 locations in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. TomTom’s products are mainly sold by retailers, who buy from distributors. Some products and services are also sold online. Tele Atlas provides maps including detailed street-level and interconnecting road networks for 73 countries.
For more information, go to our Markets page.
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