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Trimble Acquires Gatewing B.V.

On April 6, 2012, Trimble acquired aerospace company Gatewing B.V.

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Trimble’s 1st transaction in the Aerospace sector.
  • This is Trimble’s 1st transaction in Belgium.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-04-06
Target Gatewing B.V.
Sector Aerospace
Buyer(s) Trimble
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Gatewing B.V.

Gent, Belgium
Gatewing B.V., designs and provides fastest and easiest to use remote sensing solutions for the surveying and mapping industry. Based on its revolutionary X100 lightweight unmanned aircraft, Gatewing has built a solution for rapid terrain mapping that consists of image acquisition field operation and fully digital and automated image processing.

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Buyer

Trimble

Westminster, Colorado, United States
Category Company
Founded 1978
Sector Information Technology
Employees12,700
Revenue 3.8B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Trimble Navigation's corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
Entrance to Trimble Navigation's corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

Trimble is a provider of location-based solutions. The Company integrates its positioning expertise in GPS, laser, optical and inertial technologies with application software, wireless communications, and services to provide an array of commercial solutions. Trimble's technology serves a variety of industries including agriculture, engineering and construction, transportation and wireless communications infrastructure. Trimble was founded in 1978 and is based in Westminster, Colorado.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 51 of 106
Sector: Aerospace M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 42 of 93
Country: Belgium M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2012 M&A 2 of 10
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Plancal Holding AG, develops and markets software solutions for the Mechanical and HVAC trades. The solutions are tailored to meet the industry and country-specific standards and practices as well as the workflow methods of engineers, designers and installers.

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SketchUp is used for designing, modeling and visualizing projects. The SketchUp product and its vision of "3D modeling for everyone" has allowed modelers worldwide, across a wide range of industries, to express design concepts easily, accurately and efficiently.

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