Garmin® earns top NMEA honors and eight product awards

OLATHE,
Kan.–(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 honor given to the most recognized 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,
fishfinder, AIS, and multimedia entertainment. The honors
were announced at the prestigious 2017 NMEA
Convention held last week in Bellevue, Wash., Sept. 26-28.

“As
the world’s leading
marine electronics manufacturer1, we’re honored to again be recognized
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 recognitions 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 comes preloaded
with both BlueChart® g2
coastal and LakeVü HD inland maps, 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 utilize 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 honors in the radar category. The Fantom
radars use Doppler processing and have revolutionized
the way mariners use radar, as its MotionScope
technology instantly detects and highlights targets in
different colors 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 recognized. 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 chartplotter from a smartphone
or tablet, won for mobile
application utility.

Other Garmin products honored include the GSD™
26 black-box
sounder with broadband spread-spectrum signal technology in the fishfinder 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 department at 913-397-8200, or follow us at facebook.com/garmin, twitter.com/garmin,
or youtube.com/garmin.

1Based
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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