Trimble (company)

Trimble
legal form	Inc.
ISIN	US8962391004
founding	1978
Seat	Sunnyvale , California ,
management	Robert Painter (CEO), ; David G. Barnes (CFO)
Number of employees	11,300 (2018)
sales	3.1 billion US dollars (2018)
Branch	GPS positioning
Website	www.trimble.com

Trimble is a manufacturer of geodetic measuring instruments and was founded in 1978 with its headquarters in Sunnyvale . The company claims to be one of the leading providers of high-precision GNSS technology . It develops and combines positioning technology, cellular communication and software.

organization

There are production facilities in Sweden , France and Germany , among others . A central part of the corporate philosophy is to offer the surveying experts not only individual components, but also compatible and integrated systems. Trimble employed over 11,000 people in more than 35 countries worldwide in 2018.

history

Trimble Navigation was founded in 1978 by Charles Trimble (* 1941) and two Hewlett-Packard partners .

In 2001 the company Spectra Precision in Jena , which emerged from Carl Zeiss AG , was acquired. In July 2011 Trimble took over the Finnish company Tekla and in January 2012 Plancal AG in Switzerland. In April 2012, Trimble bought the CAD software SketchUp from Google .

On October 1, 2016, the company changed its business from Trimble Navigation Limited to Trimble Inc.

Web links

trimble.de - Official website

Individual evidence

↑ About Trimble | Executive leadership. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c 2018 Annual Report. March 21, 2020, accessed March 21, 2020 .
↑ Full Page Reload. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
^ Company history
↑ Spectra Lasers timeline and history - Spectra Precision. In: spectraprecision.com. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .
↑ Plancal Germany - software for building technology house technology (CAD, calculation) - single view. In: plancal.de. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .
↑ Trimble changes name to reflect company's technology evolution. Geospatial Media and Communications, October 4, 2016, accessed March 6, 2017 .

[1] About Trimble | Executive leadership. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .

[ar-2] 2018 Annual Report. March 21, 2020, accessed March 21, 2020 .

[3] Full Page Reload. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .

[4] Company history

[spectra_160129-5] Spectra Lasers timeline and history - Spectra Precision. In: spectraprecision.com. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .

[plancal_160129-6] Plancal Germany - software for building technology house technology (CAD, calculation) - single view. In: plancal.de. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .

[gw_161004-7] Trimble changes name to reflect company's technology evolution. Geospatial Media and Communications, October 4, 2016, accessed March 6, 2017 .