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Garmin® earns top NMEA honours and eight product awards

October 11, 2017

Garmin® Named Manufacturer of the Year for the third consecutive year

OLATHE, Kan./Oct. 03, 2017/Business Wire – Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), today announced that it was named Manufacturer of the Year for the third consecutive year, an honour given to the most recognised company in the marine electronics field for its support of products in the field, voted on by members of the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA®). Garmin also dominated the NMEA’s Product of Excellence Awards with eight wins in the following categories: radar, autopilot, multi-function display (MFD), mobile application—aid to navigation, mobile application—utility, fish-finder, AIS, and multimedia entertainment. The honours were announced at the prestigious 2017 NMEA Convention held last week in Bellevue, Wash.

“As the world’s leading marine electronics manufacturer, we’re honoured to again be recognised by the industry for our continued commitment to design, manufacture, sell and support industry-leading products,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin vice president global consumer sales. “We are incredibly proud and humbled by these recognition and we look forward to continuing to move the marine industry forward by delivering first-class hardware, software and support.”

For the second year in a row, Garmin won the MFD category for its GPSMAP® 8624, a 24-inch all-in-one touchscreen chartplotter that boasts the highest screen resolution on the market. The GPSMAP 8624 (US model – AU / NZ equivalent is the GPSMAP 8424) comes preloaded with both BlueChart® g2 coastal and LakeVü HD inland maps (US version only), and is fully network compatible for support of radar, autopilot, instruments, multiple screens, sensors, remote sonar modules, digital switching, thermal cameras, and more.

FUSION®, a Garmin brand, also received consecutive honors in the multimedia entertainment category, this year for the AV755 Marine Stereo System, a NMEA 2000-certified marine-ready DVD/CD player with Bluetooth connectivity that can be controlled from a compatible MFD.

For five years running, Garmin received the top spot in the autopilot category, this year for its
GHP Reactor Hydraulic Autopilot with SmartPump. The GHP Reactor was Garmin’s first recreational autopilot system to utilise AHRS technology and boasts the usability, installation flexibility, and many other features that prove to be valuable for any vessel.

The new Fantom 24 radome with MotionScope technology took top honours in the radar category. The Fantom radars use Doppler processing and have revolutionised the way mariners use radar, as its MotionScope technology instantly detects and highlights targets in different colours as they move toward or away from the boat, helping to identify collision threats faster.

Smartphone applications are essential tools for mariners in today’s connected world, and Garmin’s mobile app offerings were once again recognised. Garmin BlueChart Mobile, a route planning application with streaming weather capabilities, was named the best mobile application aid to navigation; and Garmin Helm, an application that allows mariners to view and control their chart-plotter from a smartphone or tablet, won for mobile application utility.

Other Garmin products honoured include the GSD 26 black-box sounder with broadband spread-spectrum signal technology in the fish-finder category, and the AIS 600, a blackbox transceiver that sends and receives vessel information and AIS target data in the AIS category.

Garmin’s portfolio includes some of the industry’s most sophisticated chartplotters and touchscreen multifunction displays, sonar technology, high-definition radar, autopilots, high-resolution mapping, sailing instrumentation and other products and services that are known for innovation, reliability and ease-of-use.

For decades, Garmin has pioneered new GPS navigation and wireless devices and applications that are designed for people who live an active lifestyle. Garmin serves five primary business units, including automotive, aviation, fitness, marine, and outdoor recreation. For more information, visit Garmin’s virtual pressroom at garmin.com/newsroom, contact the Media Relations at +61 2 9679 3410 or email [email protected].
Based upon 2016 reported sales

About Garmin International Inc.
 Garmin International Inc. is a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN). Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in Switzerland, and its principal subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Garmin, GPSMAP, BlueChart and Fusion are registered trademarks and GHP Reactor, Fantom, MotionScope, Garmin Helm and GSD are trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries.

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