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MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
TOMTOM / ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2015 / 3
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
Dear stakeholder,
I am pleased to report that we delivered top-line
growth this year, for the first time since 2010. We
continued to make further inroads in establishing a
multi-product Consumer business with our GPS sport
watches and action camera, we saw another record
year of new bookings with Automotive customers, we
delivered growth in our Licensing business through
existing and new customers, and we saw continued
strong growth in our fleet management business.
In 2015, we made substantial progress with our core technologies
across the group. This gives us confidence that through our skills
and expertise in location data and technologies, we are well
positioned to capture growing opportunities in the area of
Autonomous Driving, Connected Car, Fleet Management
services and Consumer Wearables.
WE CONTINUE TO BUILD
ON A GROWTH AND
PERFORMANCE-
ORIENTED CULTURE that
embraces teamwork, strong employee
engagement, and the drive for
excellence
Underpinning our growth ambition are our people. We
encourage our employees to innovate and bring an
entrepreneurial spirit to the company. We have more than 3,500
people in Research & Development, enabling us to deliver
continuous innovation. Having the greatest talent enables us to
deliver the best and most innovative products to our customers.
We achieved significant milestones with our mapping and
navigation technologies this year. We have migrated to our
unique transactional mapmaking platform that can deliver
updated maps increasingly more frequently, to implement our
vision of real-time maps. With this technological innovation,
TomTom is uniquely well positioned to address the need for
accurate and up-to-date maps, for navigation applications and
driver assistance applications, including Autonomous Driving.
We launched RoadDNA, our innovative localisation technology
that enables a car to calculate its exact position, which is essential
for Autonomous Driving. We continue to partner with leading
Automotive OEMs and Tier 1s and to position TomTom as a
leading technology supplier for the future of driving.
We made good progress on creating our new modular navigation
software stack. We have created maps in a new standard map
format (NDS) for our 'on device' and server-based navigation
applications. The ability to support incremental updates fits well
with our transactional mapmaking capability, making it possible
to keep an on-board map continously up-to-date.
We continued to increase our market share in traffic, increasing
our global coverage and enhancing our traffic services. We now
offer real-time and historical traffic information in 50 countries
around the world. By knowing the traffic situation across the
entire road network, including weather conditions, we give
drivers more insight about the road ahead, making journeys
faster and more predictable.