Garmin Ltd (GRMN) company profile

Garmin Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets location-enabled navigation, communications, and sensor-based products and services. The company organizes operations into five core markets: fitness, outdoor, aviation, marine, and auto OEM. Its diverse product portfolio encompasses fitness smartwatches, cycling computers, outdoor handhelds, satellite communicators, aviation avionics and flight decks, marine navigation systems, sonar, and automotive domain controllers. Garmin serves individual consumers, athletes, mariners, aircraft operators, and vehicle original equipment manufacturers.

The company maintains vertically integrated manufacturing operations across Taiwan, the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Poland, and China. It distributes products globally through an international network of independent retailers, distributors, repair facilities, direct online channels, and company retail stores, supported by regional offices and approximately 23,000 employees worldwide across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. Key facilities include sites in Olathe, Kansas, although a specific corporate headquarters is not identified.

Summary of the business section of Garmin's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

Stock and option awards are grant-date fair values, not realized pay. “Other” includes pension value changes and all other compensation. Source proxy statement.

“The Company’s products are created by its engineering and development staff, which numbered approximately 6,500 people worldwide as of December 27, 2025.”