COMMUNICA | Issue Five
TRIMBLE
TECH
Celebrating 40 years of trading in
2018, Trimble has grown from a start
up business to a major provider of
mapping and surveying equipment.
From its Californian headquarters,
Trimble has a global reach, providing
products to many major building and
surveying enterprises across the globe.
The company’s humble beginnings can
be traced back to 1978 when Charles
Trimble left computer and technology
firm, Hewlett Packard, initially opening
its first office in Los Altos, California.
Later moving to Sunnyvale, California,
Trimble now makes Global Positioning
System (GPS) receivers, laser range-
finders, unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), inertial navigation systems and
a variety of software processing tools.
By the end of 2016, the company had
8388 employees, with more than half
of employees in locations outside the
United States.
Since 1999, Trimble’s revenues have
grown from approximately $270 million
to over $2 billion in 2012.
The company has purchased a number
of state-of-the-art technologies from
companies including Google.
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